OBJECTIVES

Implement and showcase circular and technological innovations that contribute to the decarbonization of the built environment integrating new eco-friendly and recyclable materials, cutting-edge digital manufacturing techniques (including 3D printing and Robotics), and novel data-driven pathways across the local or regional level value chain in three large-scale demonstrators.
 

 Foster social innovation by people-centred, inclusive, creativity-driven, participatory processes activities for the development, implementation, and post-occupancy assessment of sustainable renovation solutions. Decarbonization pathways urge immediate behavioural shifts regarding the use and interaction with novel clean energy technologies and methods for climate neutrality. Decarbonizing the building stock through construction, demolition and renovation practices require actions to be tailored to occupant behaviour, technology and materials availability and changing local climate conditions with stakeholders from the whole construction chain engaged in co-creation process.
 

Promote policy innovation by providing practical guidelines to public authorities, policy makers and other stakeholders on how to implement decarbonisation pathways, highlighting the challenges and enabling conditions to overcome them. This will be based on ‘real-life’ cases demonstrating what implementing decarbonisation means in practical terms through demonstrative regulatory sandboxes.
 

Demonstrate the effectiveness and viability of innovative digital solutions, low disruptive construction and retrofitting processes on three physical demonstrators (demo cases) with policy innovation activities regarding national regulatory sandboxes through the integration of technological, social, and circular innovations.
 

Assess the scalability and replicability of the demonstrated built environment decarbonization pathways for wider adoption by deploying the innovation pathways on three demonstrated Living Labs. DeCO2 will build on its demonstrations to replicate the framework in other contexts, by increasing the knowledge-base and practical experience about circular data-driven decarbonisation solutions in the built environment.