Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction
Acronym: SB & WRC
Duration: 02/2017 - 04/2019 (27 months)
Total budget: € 1,815,252
Project SB&WRC will develop new forms of thermal insulation, using waste materials such as rapeseed and jean fibres helping to offer more environmentally friendly alternatives to the resource intensive insulants that are currently on the market.
The project will work together with construction professionals to develop three prototype insulants.
The first will use agriculture waste products such as rapeseed and corn stems, and wheat straw. The second insulant will use waste materials from the textile industry such as cotton, linen and denim fibres, while the third will be made from terracotta waste.
The three new insulants will not only exploit waste products that are currently under used in the construction industry, but will also have a carbon footprint that is 25% lower than standard insulants such as glass and rock wool.
Once developed the new forms of insulation will be exhibited within the University of Brighton’s waste house, Europe’s first building made from more than 90% waste.
The project will also raise awareness of the new insulants to over 2,000 construction professionals through a series of events that will encourage the uptake of the products once the project has ended.
- Design and production of three prototype insulants
- Conferences that will help raise awareness of the new insulants among professionals from the construction industry
An online community/network of stakeholders of the bio-based/waste-based construction materials sector
Name of the organisation: Nomadéis Le Havre
Project Partner 2:
Name of the organisation: Veolia Proprete Nord Normandie
Project Partner 3:
Name of the organisation: University of Bath
Project Partner 4:
Name of the organisation: Construction 21
Project Partner 5:
Name of the organisation: Institut Polytechnique Lasalle Beauvais – Esitpa
Project Partner 6:
Name of the organisation: University of Brighton
Location: Brighton and Hove
Project Partner 7:
Name of the organisation: Alliance for Sustainable Building Products
Location: Bournemouth and Poole
Project Partner 8:
Name of the organisation: Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieur des Travaux de la Construction de Caen