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The outcome of the project will give recommendations, based on circular economy, enabling development of this sector in Poland, certification path for natural construction materials, stimulate the producers and contractors market with professional trainings. Natural construction is an opportunity to reduce energy consumption and the environmental impact of construction processes and go in line with the idea of Circular Economy.
The project tasks are:
- a demonstration building in Poznan for trainings, workshops and promotion of natural and wooden building, - research and development activities, e.g. model of LCA (The Life Cycle of Product) and CO2 calculations, fire tests with thermal and humidity tests allowing the recommended natural technologies and wooden structures for residential and public construction, natural building road map;
- educational activities, e.g. Investor''s Guidebook, awareness building campaign, countrywide Natural Building Festival, teaching materials and workshops,
The project plans to enable the development of the natural and wooden construction sector in Poland by overcoming technical, market and educational barriers, to increase the share and awareness of natural construction and the goals of Circular Economy.
Final beneficiaries of the projects will be end-users and investors, and representatives of the Polish natural construction sector, incl. architects, planners, producers, contractors, as well as sciencists researching in this area.
Partners:
- The University of Life Science in Poznan are research facilites, experts and academic staff specialisted in the subject of the project, and own the land to build the demonstration building.
- The Polish Association for Natural Building associates experts and entities professionally involved in natural construction since 2012. Organises the Natural Building Festival with workshops and lectures, experienced in networking different stakeholders of natural building.