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ETAP - Environmental Technologies Action Plan :
Eco-innovation for a Sustainable Future: : Eco-friendly technologies are good for business, reduce pressure on the environment, and can create new jobs. The European Commission invites all stakeholders and the public to discover and share promising opportunities . . . to make eco-innovation an everyday reality throughout Europe.
The European Council for Construction Research, Development and Innovation (ECCREDI):
The aim of ECCREDI is to contribute to the competitiveness, quality, safety and environmental performance of the construction sector and to the overall sustainability of the built environment, by increasing the extent and effectiveness of construction research, technical and process development as well as innovation.
ENCORD's main objective is to be Europe's forum for the promotion of industry-led research, development and innovation in the construction sector.
Eracobuild (Strategic Networking of RDI Programmes in Construction and Operation of Buildings) aims at strengthening and enlarging the strategic networking of RDI programmes in the field of "construction and operation of buildings" initiated in the previous ERABUILD coordination action. Eracobuild gathers 34 programme owners or managers coming from 17 EU Members States, 4 Associated Countries and 1 European Region.
FIATECH is an industry consortium that provides global leadership in identifying and accelerating the development, demonstration and deployment of fully integrated and automated technologies to deliver the highest business value throughout the life cycle of all types of capital projects.
ITA is an Association the aiming at encouraging the use of the subsurface for the benefit of public, environment and sustainable development, and promoting advances in planning, design, construction, maintenance and safety of tunnels and underground space, by bringing together information thereon and by studying questions related thereto.
"L-surF", which stands for Large Scale Underground Research Facility, is a European Union funded feasibility study on safety and security of enclosed underground spaces. L-surF is a joint initiative by some of Europe’s leading institutions on safety and security of underground spaces. In due time, L-surF will bundle the strengths of the initiating partners, providing a full range of services, which besides full scale testing includes training and education and also act as integrating nucleus for pan European activities on safety and security in underground spaces.
i-Stone "Re-Engineering of Natural Stone Production Chain through Knowledge Based Processes, Eco-Innovation and new Organisational Paradigms"
The aim of the I-STONE project is the re-engineering of the stone production chain, in order to considerably increase its efficiency and productivity, minimise the amount of stone wastes disposed, produce a new generation of multifunctional products based on stone wastes and safeguard quality in stone application and use.
Manubuild - "Open Building Manufacturing" is an industry-led collaborative research project on Industrialised Construction, part-funded by the EU under Framework 6. Commencing in April 2005, it is a 4-year project involving 25 partners from 10 countries across Europe.
PRESTO - "Identification of Priority RESearch TOpics for SMEs Associations in the Construction Sector"
PRESTO is a Coordination and Support Action (supporting) financed by the European Commission within the scope of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) which aims at facilitating the identification of priority research topics for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Associations (SMEsAs) by establishing a close and sustainable dialogue with European Technology Platforms (ETPs). --> more...
REEB (European SRA to ICT enabled Energy-Efficiency in Buildings and construction) is supported by DG INFSO (Unit H4) to provide a vision and a roadmap for co-ordinating and rationalising future RTD in ICT support to energy-efficiency in the built environment, with the objectives:
- Setup European & National REEB communities, bringing together actors from the ICT, Energy and Construction sectors for comprehensive discussion and feedback to vision & roadmap;
- Identify current best practices & RTD project results, to provide with a reference basis for identification of State-of-the-Art in the targeted field;
- Establish a shared European vision and roadmap for ICT supported Energy Efficiency in Construction, as well as implementations recommendations;
- Achieve dissemination, training & education at a European level.
TunConstruct is a multi-disciplinary research project that promotes the development and implementation of European technological innovation in underground construction. Bustling at its core is the vigorous participation of some of Europe´s best recognized names in the underground engineering industry.
I3CON is an integrated research project partly funded by European Commission under the VI Framework Programme involving 26 partners from 15 different countries. I3CON will enable the transformation towards a sustainable European construction industry delivering Industrially produced, Integrated processes and Intelligent building systems by means of distributed control systems and new business models focused on the building lifecycle.