Agenda

Sustainability assessment in construction

Construcción sostenible

Date

15 March 2023

Venue

Bilbao

Time

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Conference on the technological cooperation of RVCTI agents for the comprehensive sustainability assessment of construction projects

This meeting, organised by Eraikune, will include a series of talks and a round table.

  • Both the Public Administration and professional experts from the construction sector will transfer knowledge and generate technological collaboration networks in relation to the comprehensive measurement of the sustainability of construction works and projects.
  • The results and conclusions obtained from the prospective study carried out through interviews with the most relevant actors in the RVCTI will be presented: bodies and companies of the Basque Public Administration, sectoral agents and companies that make up the ecosystem of the construction industry.

TECNALIA’s participation

Iñigo Vegas, Director of Construction Products at TECNALIA, will participate in the round table "Challenges, barriers and opportunities for sustainability in the construction sector". Iñigo will talk about advanced digital technologies for circular traceability:

  • Computer vision technologies applied to minerals and lignocellulosics
  • Cybersecurity technologies, such as blockchain, self-managed identity or cryptographic systems
  • Artificial intelligence for inferring performance and residual values of products

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Agenda

Time

ACtivity

Speaker

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Welcome breakfast

10:00 am - 10:10 am

Institutional Opening

Jon Ansoleaga Ugarte (Managing Director of Eraikune, Basque Construction Cluster), Jordán Guardo Vázquez (Membership & Alliance Leader BAT)

10:10 am - 11:10 am

Talks

Patricia Astorgano Rodera (Head of the Circular Trace project, Eraikune), Aitor Sáez de Kortazar Jungitu (Circular Economy Area at IHOBE, Basque Government’s Public Environmental Management Company), Nekane Arzallus Iturriza (Councillor for Sustainable Urban Planning, Donostia-San Sebastián City Council), Alejandro Santamaría Sillaurren (Project Manager and Industrialisation Coordinator, VISESA), Diego Ruiz Amador (Director of R&D at Ecómetro and Professor at UNED).

11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Round table of professionals: Challenges, Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainability in the Construction Sector

Moderator: Nerea Castillo Gil de Gómez (Advisor on the Circular Economy, decarbonisation and Climate Change mitigation, Eraikune). Participants: Dr. Iñigo Vegas Ramiro PhD (Director of Construction Products at TECNALIA), Alex Gárate Arrazola (Director at Ingreen Innovación), Rubén Fernandez Luna (Director of Business Development and Innovation at Fhimasa), Encarni Prieto Jiménez (Head of Quality and Environment at Viuda de Sainz).