Metabuilding: Enhancing the circularity in the Construction Sector
When & where
When & where
The construction sector needs to challenge its usual practices and innovate at a higher pace than ever before. For that, METABUILDING, an EU-funded H2020 project, has developed an innovation ecosystem that brings together stakeholders from construction and four emerging industrial sectors; recycling & circularity, additive manufacturing, nature-based solutions, and digital industry.
As part of the METABUILDING outreach activities and with the goal of fostering the cross-sectoral cooperation, a workshop will be held in Brussels on the circular economy & recycling practices in the building environment.
The objective of this event is:
- Present the EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan and the latest legislative developments to make the construction sector greener (including the revised EU Construction Products Regulation)
- Present METABUILDING platform: fostering new cross-sectoral, cross-border industrial value chains.
- Showcase successful collaborative projects and METABUILDING winners on the building & recycling sector.
- Discuss on the circularity and recycling challenge for the construction sector: state of play and future prospects.
This workshop will bring together stakeholders from the construction and the recycling sector including industry associations, RTOs, policymakers, business, and SMEs.
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8:30-9:00 |
Registration & Welcome Coffee |
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9:00-9:30 |
Opening & introduction to METABUILDING Project · Emmanuel Katrakis, Secretary General, EuRIC · Alain Zarli, Secretary General, ECTP · Germain ADELL, Deputy General Director, NOBATEK INEF4 |
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9:30-10:00 |
Circular Economy Action Plan: Construction & buildings. · Oscar Nieto Sanz, Policy Officer, DG GROW, European Commission |
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10:00-10.15 |
How to foster cross-sectoral cooperation? METABUILDING platform · Claudia Hunziker Keller, Head of Innovation Ecosystems, NOBATEK INEF4 · Emre Yontem, Director & CTO, EcoWise |
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10:15-10.45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45-11.00 |
The role of Additive manufacturing technologies in sustainable construction and circular economy · Paula Queipo Rodríguez, AM-Platform Deputy Coordinator, IDONIAL |
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11:00 – 12:00 |
Increasing recycling, recovery and integration of raw materials from recycling. Successful collaborative projects, METABUILDING winners. CALSILAM · Alberto Miguéns, Senior Researcher of Advanced Materials Area, CETIM R3CoRD · Nikola Tošić, Partner at Smart Engineering S.L Bio-EcoMATTER · Lorena Rodríguez, CEO, 360 Soluciones Cambio Climático DigitalDeConstruction · Annie Guerriero, LIST – Luxembourg |
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12:00-12:50 |
Panel Discussion: Circularity drivers in the construction sector · Bernard Gilmont, Director Engineered Products and Business Development, European Aluminium · Mario Sunseri, President SGI Ingegneria SrL, ANPAR Delegated · Joseph Hurtado, EU Development and Business intelligence Officer Materalia · Federica Pozzi, Programme Manager, ECOS |
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12:50-13:00 |
Closing remarks |
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13:00 |
Networking Lunch |