Objective 40% of energy consumption and 36% CO2 emissions in Europe are directly related to the buildings due mainly to inefficient insulation materials and systems. Currently required insulation performance may only be achieved either by installing extremely thick ordinary insulation materials and sacrificing living spaces or by using unaffordable the state-of-the-art insulation materials (e.g. silica aerogel). Of European building sector, more than 99% are SME and buildings construction market reached over 1 trillion equivalent to about 9% of European GDP, representing a total workforce of 25 million jobs.The ICECLAY project aims at creating a new generation of low cost and most efficient insulation materials for EU building construction and hence enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs in EU construction sector. The project is to develop nano-structured ultra-lightweight clay-aerogel and its integrated composites by using harmless and inexpensive nano-scale minerals, water and eco-friendly or soluble/dispersible low-cost polymers, through innovative and cost effective freeze-drying processes. The ICECLAY will provide, due to their extremely porous structure and reduced thickness, the superior thermal insulation specially designed for highly energy efficiency building’s retrofit and advanced HAVC systems. The developed innovative thin and flexible lightweight ICECLAY board and film will claim to be an excellent and cheaper alternative to the unaffordable high-performance insulation materials like the space oriented supercritical-dried silica aerogel and vacuum insulation panels. The developed powder based ICECLAY will be used as superior enhancing thermal insulation fillers for a broad range of building products like concrete, drywalls, bricks, plasters and coatings. Fields of science engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositesnatural scienceschemical sciencespolymer sciencesengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and filmssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2012-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2012 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator ACTIVE AEROGELS LDA EU contribution € 241 472,41 Address Rua pedro nunes - instituto pedro nunes 3030 199 Coimbra Portugal See on map Region Continente Centro (PT) Região de Coimbra Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bruno Ramos De Carvalho (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DEVAN CHEMICALS NV Belgium EU contribution € 206 640,00 Address Ninoofsesteenweg 539 9600 Ronse See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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Oudenaarde Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Laurence Flamand (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ECOTERRA DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE SL Spain EU contribution € 152 181,60 Address Calle arana 15 3 b 01002 Vitoria gasteiz See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Antonio Reales Moya (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data CONSTRUCCIONES GARCIA RAMA SL Spain EU contribution € 172 203,00 Address Calle sierra del sueve 6 bajo 33211 Gijon asturias See on map Region Noroeste Principado de Asturias Asturias Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Susana García Rama (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SLOVENSKI GRADBENI GROZD, GOSPODARSKO INTERESNO ZDRUZENJE Slovenia EU contribution € 135 449,75 Address Vase 41a 1215 Medvode See on map Region Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Osrednjeslovenska Activity type Other Administrative Contact Vladimir Gumilar (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTO PEDRO NUNES ASSOCIACAO PARA A INOVACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA Portugal EU contribution € 6 200,00 Address Rua pedro nunes 3030-199 Coimbra See on map Region Continente Centro (PT) Região de Coimbra Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact João Paulo Mouta Dias (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON United Kingdom EU contribution € 6 132,80 Address Kingston lane UB8 3PH Uxbridge See on map Region London Outer London — West and North West Harrow and Hillingdon Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Teresa Waller (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Active Space Technologies, Actividades Aeroespaciais S.A. Participation ended Portugal EU contribution € 28 605,84 Address Parque industrial de taveiro lote 12 3045 508 Coimbra See on map Region Continente Centro (PT) Região de Coimbra Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dina Gaspar (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data