Currently freight transport represents 40% of the total transport emission and 32% in urban area. Many initiatives are under development to reduce costs and negative impact of freight and service trip in urban area. Some of them concern supply chain improvements and more specifically consolidation centre projects. Few study cases are dedicated to construction industry. However, urban population tends to grow, increasing the need to develop and reconstruct urban centres. Construction material logistic impact in urban area will intensify in terms of costs and negative impacts in urban area. Yet, only few experiences of Construction Consolidation Centres can be found. Among these initiatives, four are construction site specific (Stockholm, Utrecht, Berlin, London Heathrow) and only one is dedicated to several construction projects (London CC). Theses pilots studies have demonstrated reduced transportation impacts, positive effects on transportation efficiency and construction site productivity. Several limitations to the transferability of this concept are identified: one on hand the demonstrators were implemented in specific contexts (regulatory incentives, cities investment contribution, and specifics transport and logistics infrastructure issues) which are not the same in France, Spain, Italy and Luxembourg. On the other hand, economic viability has not been demonstrated. The project addresses the different requirements for transferability of supply chain optimization concepts as well as CCCs and new ways of working between supply chain stakeholders. The approach is to identify an integrated collaborative approach and business model among construction supply chain actors. Three main steps will be performed: analyse the current issues along the construction supply chain, propose several optimization scenarios regarding these issues, simulate and analyse costs optimization and environmental impacts to propose new partnership opportunities based on savings distribution

Significant challenges affecting the building and construction value chain are related to fragmentation and siloing. A systemic change is needed, catalysed by lifecycle perspectives, that will reveal interactions, opportunities, and threats. INBLANC will establish an open ecosystem focused on capitalising on the economy of building lifecycle data. This will be achieved through: The Accumulation framework, INBLANC prioritises low-cost data collection options and data extraction and inference, the consolidation of building information in Building Digital Logbook, as well as the creation and population of databases, interfaced with EU dataspaces through connectors. The Numeracy component will implement a Nexus strategy to map and operationalize interactions between different types of metrics: energy, human & societal, economy, environment & circularity and resilience, six Target Groups, encompassing the entire value chain, with focus on building owners and facility managers as actors with major decision-making capacity. The building lifecycle data Capitalisation toolset integrates high-added value services for the comprehensive management of: energy planning and operation, virtual facility management, quantified indoor health, low-carbon renovation planning and urban context integration. Actors in the ecosystem will be engaged across the value chain, through a holistic engagement strategy that will embed the projects outcomes in current and future industrial, but also user needs. INBLANC will be demonstrated in six demo cases, reflecting six very different use-case scenarios, from heritage renovation, to education, to energy flexible neighbourhoods, public building portfolios, large scale health facilities and finally city-scale implementation. Through the ambitious demonstrations, feedback will be collected and incorporated into a system completion process to prove near-market readiness.

If BIM is key to address the construction sector growing technical complexity, to overcome construction processes fragmentation and communication problems between stakeholders, to reduce on-site time and improve quality and affordability, its uptake for the renovation of the EU existing building stock is yet to come and already late. To face this BIM4REN starts from 3 workflows adapted to the construction sector segmentation (90% of companies are SMEs) presenting particular technical and organisational requirements and has adapted the project and consortium to provide adequate and innovative processes, methodologies, software and hardware tools & BIM developments for each one of them, backboned by state of the art BIM technologies like worldwide used BIM Server (open-source) and BIM Bots by TNO among many others. BIM4REN gathers together top European RTOs active in the Built Environment domain (Nobatek, CSTB, Tecnalia, TNO, Fraunhofer ISE) alongside key industrial actors (EDF, CMB Carpi & ATI Project (leading BIM implementers in the EU market) with 2 Universities (RWTH & Vilnius Gedimas) and up to 11 SMEs: R&D performing (R2M, Ekodenge), SME contractors (Kursaal) and technology providers (IES, EnerBIM, WiseBIM, VRM, AEC3, etc.) with the European Builders Confederation, the Green Building Council Italy and a large French Social Housing Organisation (Logirep) representing the whole residential renovation value chain. B4R digital ecosystem will be accessible via a web based One Stop Access Platform, where depending on each user profile and needs, orientation, best practice examples from a dedicated database and links to the different tools and services (from Top-grade to Entry-level) will be provided on differentiated access schemes underpinned by different business models. Inspired by the Open Innovation 2.0 paradigm the project will setup a demonstration campaign with “pilots as Living Labs” integrating all stakeholders in 3 cities (Paris, San Sebastian and Venice).