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BASAJAUN - Building A SustainAble Joint between rurAl and UrbaN Areas Through Circular And Innovative Wood Construction Value Chains

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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IA - Innovation action

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(opens in new window) H2020-RUR-2018-2020

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FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
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€ 1 037 750,51
Address
PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE BIZKAIA, ASTONDO BIDEA, EDIFICIO 700
48160 DERIO BIZKAIA
Spain

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Noreste País Vasco Gipuzkoa
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