BIO insulation materials for Enhancing the Energy performance of Buildings

BIO4EEB is a project co-funded by the European Commission which kicked off at the beginning of 2023. BIO4EEB solutions and products aim at uplifting the generic bio-based material use and qualifying their application at a circular economy approach for creating a much greener EU building industry.

Why BIO4EEB?

Within the next four years, this 8.8M€ innovation project will close the increasing gap of insulation material shortage caused by the regular growing demand. BIO4EEB is targeting to boost the use of available bio-based qualified materials as alternative solutions.

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Key objectives of the BIO4EEB project

BIO4EEB will support the construction performance of residential buildings extraordinary at all three hierarchical levels of construction parts simultaneously (building, component, material) by creating an amplified environmental impact and reducing volatile organic compounds emissions.

BIO4EEB will apply non-hazardous bio-based material such as Posidonia and various bio-based foams to develop and to proof the marketability of smart components for external and internal use as material application, pre-fabricated panels or windows.

User-centricity

Development of affordable and user centric envelope solutions aligned with market needs, and applicability to different building typology.

Bio-based materials

Development of new environment friendly, light-weight and cost-effective bio-based insulation materials to move towards building with nearly zero net energy consumption standards.

Circularity

Demonstration of the circularity and adaptability of the BIO4EEB solutions for an easy installation in a real operational environment and their replicability using virtual demo cases.

Decision support system

Development of an IT user-friendly and multi-disciplinary platform for improving the decision-making process for selecting the best energy efficient renovation strategy and promoting building stock renovation.

Latin American uptake

Cooperating with relevant partners as well as extending the BIO4EEB outcomes to the Latin American construction market sector to facilitate the development and increase the acceptance of BIO4EEB solutions.

Real and virtual demonstrations

The BIO4EEB project consortium has been extremely meticulous in developing demonstration activities and strategies in order to fully evaluate and confirm the applicability of all developed solutions in a variety of different application scenarios. For this reason, it was of paramount importance to select pilot sites that covered both different dominant climate regions within the EU as well as the different dominant building typologies across the European continent. As a result of this, five real demo-cases have been selected which on top of covering different building typologies and environments will also test different solutions configurations and will be applied as refurbishments or in new constructions offering extremely comprehensive testing conditions. Moreover, virtual demo cases are also selected in order to complement the real demo sites with the remaining popular building typologies and climates present throughout Europe.

Real demo cases

Five real demo cases where selected representing 3 climate zones (Continental, Mediterranean and Oceanic) and 5 different building typologies: 1) Multifamily multistorey residential refurbishment in Lithuania; 2) Historical/protected single family residential refurbishment in Spain; 3) Single family residential refurbishment / new construction in Germany; 4) Rural single family residential refurbishment in Czech Republic and 5) Multifamily multistorey residential new construction in France. More details around each of these demo cases is provided in the following sections.

Virtual demo cases

The virtual demo-cases will serve as a test-bed of assessing several different technological solutions and their potential environmental, economical and social impact. The selected virtual demo cases are representing parts of the European residential building stock with high replicability potential. Together with the real demo cases they cover the main residential building types (by size, historical protected status, age etc.) from the dominant climates (Middle European Continental, Oceanic, Mediterranean Climate). The demo cases were selected by relying on the TABULA-Episcope building typology.