Ongoing Projects
BUILD2050
The general objective of the project is to contribute to the improvement of the construction of healthy and sustainable buildings at the European level through the development of integrated and transnational training.
The specific objectives are:
(i) create transversal skills in the field of knowledge construction for emerging challenges (in a perspective of 2050) through an integrated training consisting of 8 courses aimed at students and professionals;
(ii) publicize the answers to the challenges of building 2050 through the creation of a platform with the compilation of the information generated in the training by the trainers, trainees and associated partners;
(iii) encourage the sharing of knowledge and innovative challenges, through the creation of a network of European partners in the field of construction (entrepreneurs, researchers);
(iv) Promoting new forms of education through the sharing of experiences / methodologies for the development of integrated and transnational training through a European Guide.
In addition to the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, partner institutions of the consortium are the University of Bologna and the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy), the University of Athens (Greece), the University of Bochum (Germany), the University of Life Sciences in Warsaw ( Poland) and the Luleå University of Technology (Sweden).
The project is funded by the European Commission.
Program: Erasmus+
Global funding: €320,000
Duration: February 2022 - January 2025
WISDom
The project aims at the development of algorithms and models that allow extracting knowledge from the data, supporting the water utilities in the decision-making and, thus, improving the management of its systems by reducing water losses and ensuring the provision of drinking water in quantity and quality.
This project is coordinated by the Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal and has as partners the Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa and INESC-ID.
It is funded by Fundac¸a~o para a Cie^ncia e Tecnologia (Projects of Scientific Research and Technological Development in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration)
Total funding: € 288,450
Duration: January 2019-December 2021
Reference DSAIPA/DS/0089/2018
ARSus
The project's objective is to develop a coating mortar incorporating a residue from The Navigator Company's industrial complexes – fluidized bed sands from biomass boilers. At the same time, it is intended to contribute to the declassification of waste, within the scope of the General Regime for Waste Management, namely through the instrument End of the Waste Statute (FER).
Thus, it is intended to assess whether the residue meets the technical requirements for use as an aggregate in the production of coating mortars and whether its use causes globally adverse impacts from the environmental or human health point of view. It is also intended to carry out an economic feasibility study of the mortar, quantifying the market for coating mortars, and the study of the mortar's environmental impact, using Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tools.
The importance of the study is related to the awareness of the need to use waste, as raw materials, to reduce the environmental and economic impacts of its generation and contribute to sustainable industrial development. Thus, two industrial sectors, the Pulp sector and the Civil Construction sector, will contribute to the circular flow (cradle to cradle) that characterizes the Circular Economy.
The project is financed by the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal.
