Project description
A new way to optimise wood forest resources
The EU has more than 180 million hectares of forests covering 43 % of its land area, making wood an important and highly sustainable forest product, particularly for rural communities. The EU-funded BASAJAUN project will bring together wood transformation companies, research organisations, associations and public bodies to maximise forest value through its use in wood construction. Stakeholders in urban areas will also be integrated via a thematic platform. Overall, the project will focus on optimal utilisation of wood forest resources for the construction of a four-storey apartment building. The project will also undertake the digitalisation of the construction value chain, from forest to buildings.
Objective
European rural areas will boost when their natural resources constitute the basis of innovative and sustainable value chains with a high positive economic impact. In this sense, forests constitute an asset that provide not only ecosystems and biodiversity, but also a valuable and sustainable raw material, “wood”. Wood is consumed by various sectors, including one of the most “raw materials” demanding sector, the construction. The BASAJAUN project is a puzzle composed of 1st and 2nd transformation companies, research organizations, associations and public bodies that are focused on maximizing the forest value through its use in wood construction. Its main goal is to optimize the wood forest resources to enable the construction of a medium sized building (16 dwellings with 4 floors) with the lowest possible forest hectares – that will depend on the tree species and the forest local peculiarities (climate, surface, ...). The whole process will be optimised to maximize the consumption of wood products from the forest (solid wood, fibers, veneers, bark, sawdust, etc.).
For this purpose, a) innovative wood-based construction materials (thermal insulation, composites, varnishes, SIPs) and systems (structure, facades, floors, walls, roof and fixings) will be developed and upscaled, b) one full-scale demo building (France) will be constructed and one experimental building (Spain) that use all developed products, c) digitalization of the whole construction value chain (from forest to building) will be done and d) the rural development impact will be studied at regional level. The environmental impact of the products of these value chains will be assessed as well. Besides, to assure a sustainable impact of the project a novel thematic platform to integrate the stakeholders of the wood region with urban areas will be developed.
Besides, BASAJAUN leverages the previous results of successful projects where the innovative materials and systems were designed at laboratory and semi-industrial scale.
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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20730 Azpeitia
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26007 Bajo Logrono
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26360 Fuenmayor
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38210 Sastamala
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1119 Budapest
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67100 STRASBOURG
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40950 Muurame
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48004 Bilbao
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48004 Bilbao
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54531 Toreboda
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47824 Poggio Torriana
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28290 Las Rozas - Madrid
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1073 AX Amsterdam
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1050-059 Lisboa
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582 26 Linkoeping
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217 74 Malmo
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02150 Espoo
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77420 Champs Sur Marne
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501 15 Boras
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80686 Munchen
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46980 PATERNA VALENCIA
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80333 Muenchen
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22100 Lund
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33074 Bordeaux
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00790 Helsinki
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61-755 POZNAN
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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48170 Zamudio Bizkaia
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20135 Milano
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8331150 Santiago
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33310 Lormont
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78280 Guyancourt
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216 20 MALMO
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