Construmat Presents in novelty the materials and constructive processes more innovative
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The coordinator of the Construmat Innovation Center, Josep Ramon Fontana, stands out “the high degree of quality and innovation“of the proposals presented.”The majority are projects developed in centres of university investigation, what allows, on the one hand, propose initiatives more dared that the developed in the departments of R&D of the companies, and by another, have equipment of work formed by experts of different scientific disciplines, what confers them a plus of creativity”, sustains.
However, alert Fontana, “neither the materials neither the constructive processes of the Construmat Innovation Center are of science fiction: all what presents is perfectly applicable in the diverse European methods of construction and absolutely asumible regarding his costs. The Construmat Innovation Center pretends to advance the future tendencies in materials of construction. Therefore all the developments that will present are very connected with the reality of the market”. In this sense, Fontana ensures that “know what is what is investigating in the university world and scientist means to have of an indicator advanced of how will build inside ten years”, what awards to the Construmat Innovation Center an enormous value added.
International technology centres
The ITeC has selected a total of 12 pertinent proposals of some of the centres of investigation more prestigious of the world. It treats of materials and solutions in phase of development that still do not commercialise of massive form, which allows so much to the professionals as to the companies of the sector discover no only the new tendencies, but take advantage of new niches of business for aliarse with these centres and, for example, arrive to register the patent of conjoint form or turn into the trading company of the new solution.
In the Construmat Innovation Center the professionals will be able to find the innovations contrived and created by: the Centre of Investigation of Friburgo (Germany), the Laboratory of Materials and Surroundings of the Buildings of the School of architecture of the University of Soongsil of Seoul (South Korea), the section of Design of Buildings of the Department of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Denmark, the Department of Architectural Constructions and ICT of the University of Boroughs, the Centre for the Innovation in Materials of Construction of the University of Bath (Great Britain), the University of Durham (Great Britain), the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geociencias of the University of Technology of Delft (Holland), the Department of Engineering Enzo Ferrari of the University of Módena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), the Institute for the Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering of the University of Minho in Knickers (Portugal), the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Department of Structural Engineering of the University of Technology Chalmers of Goteborg (Sweden).
Textile formworks, concrete bio, insulation with bark…
In the Construmat Innovation Center, the display units and visitors of the living room, especially the manufacturers of materials, will be able to know at first hand the potential and the applications of the new materials. Some of the most innovative proposals:
A Gaudí 2.0: The Centre for the Innovation in Materials of Construction of the University of Bath (Great Britain) puts to the day the textile formwork, a constructive technician that produces surfaces inspired by curves the nature that remember to the signals of Antoni Gaudí or the avant-gardes of the years 50 like the airport JFK of New York of Eero Saarinen. The group of Bath updates these technicians by means of the use of fabrics of last generation and shows that it is possible to obtain geometries sugerentes without sacrificing hygiene, costs neither respect to the environingingment.
Bacteria that repair the concrete: The Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geociencias of the University of Technology of Delft (Holland) presents the biotechnology applied to the construction. This group has manufactured a concrete with latent bacteria in his interior. When the concrete cracks , the oxygen that penetrates in his inner awake to these bacteria that reproduce like the learnings of choral, covering like this the concrete cracked. Without affecting to the resistant properties of the concrete, is a natural solution that can apply in works of civil engineering like bridges or viaducts.
An insulator of bark of pine: The Centre of Investigation of Friburgo (Germany), in a project of European collaboration in which it participates the Upper National School of Technologies and Industries of the Forestry of the University of Lorraine of Nancy (France), has created a new insulating foam in which it substitutes the polieuretano, pertinent of the oil, by substances from the barks of own trees of the European flora like the pines. It treats of a natural process that gives a new use to a by-product (the barks of the trees) and that it can contribute to the market an effective and sustainable insulator.
The human body like example: The section of Design of Buildings of the Department of Civil Engineering of the Technical University of Denmark has developed a structural system prefabricated in where the elements design following the model of the human body, that is to say the bones resist the loads and free to the rest of fabrics of this responsibility. Like this, the Danish engineers have reserved the concrete pretensado only to those zones of the element in that it is indispensable, opting by materials lighter for the rest.
An aerogel that saves: The Laboratory of Materials and Surroundings of the Buildings of the School of architecture of the University of Soongsil of Seoul (South Korea) has found a way to take out party to the extraordinary insulating properties of the aerogel, adapting it to the demands of the sector of the construction. They propose a new mixed mortar aerogel-cement in which the aerogel dosifica only until achieving the level of provision required in the project, without wasting a so expensive component. When keeping on being a mortar, this material works without difficulty and can be ideal for works of rehabilitation.
Baldosas Always clean: The Department of Engineering ‘Enzo Ferrari' of the University of Módena and Reggio Emilia of Italy has developed a new system to improve the maintenance and the cleaning of baldosas ceramic. During the process of manufacture, before the cocción, injects in the piece a mix of titanium and silver, that avoids the proliferation of bacteria in the interior of the baldosas. This system allows an easier maintenance and with products less aggressive in the daily care.
The ITeC has llevar, likewise, the selection of speakers of the axis of Innovation that will participate in the first edition of the Building Solutions World Congress (BSWC) of Construmat in which, also, will give to know new projects and pertinent materials of Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, Holland or Ireland, among others countries.
