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ENHANCING CIRCULARITY & RECYLING IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR

Metabuilding: Enhancing the circularity in the Construction Sector

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.

  • 8:30-9:00

    Registration & Welcome Coffee

    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

    9:30-10:00

    Circular Economy Action Plan: Construction & buildings.

    ·        Oscar Nieto Sanz, Policy Officer, DG GROW, European Commission

    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

    10:15-10.45

    Coffee Break

    10:45-11.00

    The role of Additive manufacturing technologies in sustainable construction and circular economy

    ·        Paula Queipo Rodríguez, AM-Platform Deputy Coordinator, IDONIAL

    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

    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

    12:50-13:00

    Closing remarks

    13:00

    Networking Lunch

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When & Where

26 April 2023

09:00 - 13:00

BLUEPOINT
BD AUGUSTE REYERS 80
1030 BRUSSELS
BELGIUM