BIOS MATER
Re-designing the construction sector: Sustainable and functional bio-based construction products and building elements
Project details
- Type of project
- Innovation Action - Demonstration
- Project focus
- Construction
- Feedstock origin
- Agri-food waste
- Feedstock type
- CelluloseCrop residuesFood industry sidestreamsLignin & wood residues
- Project period
- 1 June 2025 - 31 May 2029
- Status
- Upcoming
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 7 463 260,00
- Call identifier
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024
Summary
The construction industry is responsible for approximately 37% of global CO₂ emissions, with environmental impacts occurring throughout a building’s lifecycle - from material production to disposal. While bio-based materials offer a sustainable alternative, their adoption faces challenges such as durability, mechanical strength, fire resistance, and high production costs. Additionally, regulatory and market barriers hinder their widespread use.
To overcome these issues, the BIOS MATER project takes a holistic approach to developing advanced bio-based construction materials that are durable, safe, and sustainable. It focuses on four key areas: improving material durability and performance, ensuring health and environmental safety through safe-and-sustainable-by-design, integrating circular economy principles, and driving market adoption through digital transparency and stakeholder engagement.
The project will develop and test four innovative bio-based products, including flooring tiles, wall panels, exterior cladding made from bio-resin fibres and biodegradable and plantable bio-based tiles from foams applied as drywall panels. By demonstrating their feasibility in real-world conditions, BIOS MATER aims to accelerate the transition to a greener and more circular construction industry.
- Create innovative bio-based building materials, ensuring safety and sustainability.
- Encourage circular economy principles, while helping the market adopt these new materials through digital tools and collaboration.
- Test these products in real-world conditions at a dedicated demonstration site, evaluating energy efficiency, insulation, and durability.
- Promote resource-efficient, closed-loop production lines and integrate Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment to enhance sustainability, carbon removal, and health and safety in the construction sector.
- Develop training and awareness programmes, bringing together 22 partners from 10 EU countries to work towards a more sustainable construction industry.
- Implement a communication strategy to raise awareness, engage stakeholders, empower the workforce, and promote policy recommendations to support the adoption of bio-based construction products.
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35% until 2038.
- Improve indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency by 20%.
- Boost the end-user and consumer acceptance of bio-based construction products by 3.5% until 2038.
- Increase employment in the European bio-based material production by 5% after the completion of the project.
- Generate revenues from bio-based construction products, projected at €41,356,800 by 2031.
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Project coordination
- FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS Zaragoza, Spain
Consortium
- Nicolaides & Kountouris Metal Co. Limited Lefkosia, Cyprus
- PHEE IKE RIO, Greece
- ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS Thermi Thessaloniki, Greece
- ITECONS INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO TECNOLOGICO PARA A CONSTRUCAO ENERGIA AMBIENTE E SUSTENTABILIDADE Coimbra, Portugal
- AIMPLAS - ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE MATERIALES PLASTICOS Y CONEXAS PATERNA VALENCIA, Spain
- LEVERY SRL SOCIETA' BENEFIT BELLARIA IGEA MARINA, Italy
- ORINEO BVBA Erps-Kwerps, Belgium
- DIN DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER NORMUNG EV Berlin, Germany
- DRAXIS RESEARCH VENTURES ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIRIA Thessaloniki, Greece
- Bauhaus der Erde gGmbH Berlin, Germany
- NPSP BV DELFT, Netherlands
- UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Barcelona, Spain
- F6S EU TECH INNOVATION NETWORK DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY DUBLIN, Ireland
- UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA Valencia, Spain
- SIMVOULI IGIEINIS KAI ASFALIAS GENIKI EXOTERIKI YPIPIESIA PROSTASIAS KAI PROLIPSIS ANONIMOS ETAIRIA Athens, Greece
- CELIGNIS LIMITED Limerick, Ireland
- UDRUZENJE EKO-INOVACIJA NA BALKANU Novi Sad, Serbia
- ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION SA MADRID, Spain
- NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS PARA EL DESARROLLO DE PACKAGING Y PRODUCTOS AGROALIMENTARIOS CON COMPONENTE PLASTICA SL Zaragoza, Spain
- 4D MATER MONOPROSOPI I.K.E. Patra, Greece
- STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH Wageningen, Netherlands
