The PROBONO project (The centric approach for realising innovative energy efficient buildings in connected sustainable green neighbourhoods) was selected among 115 project proposals for the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme call LC-GD-4-1-2020: Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way. Now the project is officially started!

The ambition for sustainable and green buildings across Europe has encountered a number of barriers (e.g., as related to high upfront construction costs, access to capital, social attitudes, lack of information, experience and incentives). To answer the challenges related to the green building market, the Horizon 2020 PROBONO project envisions a people-focused European construction industry working in harmony with the broader community of stakeholders. Here, public authorities and citizens are involved with the purpose to deliver scalable, sustainable, and viable energy positive and zero-carbon green buildings and neighbourhoods.

The project’s ambition is to provide validated solutions for the design, construction, and operation of new and/or retrofitted zero-pollution and positive energy buildings as part of sustainable green neighbourhood developments. The type of neighbourhoods will be piloted across six EU states where the PROBONO living labs will be established.

The living labs will be linked to business and municipality greening plans. More specifically, the six PROBONO living labs will include two municipality driven large-scale demonstrators (Madrid and Dublin) and four living labs representing business/owner promoters of the green buildings and neighbourhoods’ transition (Porto, Brussels, Aarhus, Prague).

To achieve its goal, PROBONO will provide five transition acceleration enablers, as related to:

• strategic planning
• social engagement and innovation support
• green energy
• construction and renovation
• digitalisation for data-driven investment process and resource optimisation

Integratively utilizing on those enablers and deploying them across six high impact and people-focused real-life large-scale living labs, PROBONO will show how technological and social innovations related to green buildings and neighbourhoods can be applied.

Having a systems-based approach to the buildings’ infrastructure and a renewed focus on people and sustainability, the project will fully exploit digitalisation and smart technologies for the benefit of society. Finally, to enhance wide-scale adoption and standard creation, PROBONO will contribute with evidence-based policy recommendations, standardisation actions, and robust adoption and commercialisation strategies.

Partners

• INGENIERIA ESPECIALIZADA OBRA CIVIL E INDUSTRIAL SA
• INLECOM INNOVATION ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
• FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
• SERCO BELGIUM
• MOTT MACDONALD FRANCE
• AARHUS UNIVERSITET
• AKKA HIGH TECH
• INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON
• GECO GLOBAL APS
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
• DUN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN COUNTY COUNCIL
• INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE TECHNOLOGIQUE SYSTEM X
• SIXENSE ENGINEERING
• KONNECTA SYSTEMS LIMITED
• VLTN GCV
• EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS
• TPF UTILITIES
• CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL BIODIVERSITE& IMMOBILIER
• SMART INNOVATION NORWAY AS
• DIN DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER NORMUNG EV
• FUNDACION CARTIF
• PNO INNOVATION SL
• ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM
• VIAS INSTITUTE
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
• BOVLABS SAS
• STAM SRL
• DISTRITO CASTELLANA NORTE SA
• AYUNTAMIENTO DE MADRID
• SOPREMA
• COWI AS
• DE L'AUTRE COTE DE L'ECOLE
• VISBLUE APS
• COMPANIA ESPANOLA DE LAMINACION SL
• FUNDACION CIDAUT
• TELCOSERV SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIHSH & BELTIOPOIHSH THLEPIKOINONIAKON DIKTION-EGKATASTASIS THLEPIKOINONIAKOU EKSOPLISMOU DIATAKSEON-KATASKEVASTIK
• IDOM CONSULTING, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE S.A.U.
• SONAE MC - SERVICOS PARTILHADOS, SA
• WILLIS TOWERS WATSON SA
• ECOFOREST GEOTERMIA SL
• ANERDGY AG
• BEEPLANET FACTORY SL
• CAPWATT, S.A.
• HRVATSKI SAVJET ZA ZELENU GRADNJU
• CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE
• MESTSKA CAST PRAHA 6 / DISTRICT PRAGUE 6

Start date: 1 January 2022 - End date: 31 December 2026