Circulary

The FISSAC project involves stakeholders at all levels of the construction and demolition value chain to develop a methodology, and software platform to facilitate information exchange. These can support industrial symbiosis networks and replicate pilot schemes at local and regional levels. FISSAC aims to develop and demonstrate a new paradigm built on an innovative industrial symbiosis model towards a zero waste approach in the resource-intensive industries for the construction value chain, tackling harmonised technological and non-technological requirements, leading to material closed-looped processes and moving to a circular economy.

FISSAC aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the processes, services and products obtained in the Project at different levels:

A) Manufacturing processes

• Demonstration of closed-loop recycling processes to transform waste into valuable acceptable secondary raw materials.
• Demonstration of the manufacturing processes of the novel products at industrial scale.

B) Product validation

• Demonstration of the eco-design of eco-innovative construction products (new eco-cement and green concrete, innovative ceramic tiles and rubber-wood plastic composites) in pre-industrial processes, under a life-cycle approach.
• Demonstration at real scale of the application and technical performance of eco-innovative construction products in a variety of case studies.

C) Industrial symbiosis model

• Demonstration of the software platform.
• Replicability assessment of the model through living lab concept (as a user-centred, open-innovation ecosystem, often operating in a territorial context).

Economic impacts:

• 15% reduction of waste generation [170,298 kt/y].
• 12% gains in productivity for waste treatment [30.36 Mt/y].
• Volume of resources & products from waste: Total savings for the EU- concrete sector up to 25 M€.
• 1,200 M€ – 1,350 M€ associated with consumption of Portland cement.

Environmental impacts:

• 15% reduction of waste generation.
• 12% gains in productivity for waste treatment.
• 20% in energy efficiency and GHG savings.
• Development of Industrial Symbiosis indicators to quantify FISSAC model impact, in line with Key Performance Indicators of SPIRE PPP.

Technological impacts:

• Development of new eco-cement, new green concrete, innovative ceramic tiles and rubber wood plastic composite as a result of the eco-design of eco-innovative construction products developed under FISSAC model.

Social impacts:

• Employment: new job opportunities, training needs on circular economy.
• Social behaviour & citizen engagement (Social Advisory Board, Living Labs to gather views, share knowledge develop prototypes, encourage sustainable behaviour).

• Regulatory: When working with innovative construction products, there is a lack of standardisation and national regulations to apply it on sites, so it is necessary to work closely with standardisation bodies since the beginning of the project and plan carefully the demonstration activities.
• Financial: In the FISSAC project, new circular economy business models are being analysed as part of the works of WP8.

ACCIONA Construcción (Coordinator), ACR+ Association des Cites et des Regions pour le la gestion durable des Ressources, UNE Asociación Española de Normalización, Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), AKG Gazbeton ??letmeleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.?, BEFESA Salzschlacke, British Glass Manufacturers Confederation, CBI Betonginstitutet, RINA Consulting – Centro Sviluppo Materiali, RINA Consulting, Ekodenge Engineering and Consultancy, Fundación Agustín de Betancourt (FUNAB), Fénix TNT, Feralpi Siderurgica, Geonardo Environmental Technologies, Glass Technology Services, Ingenieurbüro Trinius, HIFAB, Keraben Grupo, Openbare Vlaamse Afvalstoffenmaatschappij (OVAM), RINA Services, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, SÍMBIOSY, Simbiosi Industrial, Turkish Cement Manufacturers`Association (TCMA), Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Ecodek® Specialist Building Products

Edith Guedella Bustamante, Head of Biotechnology & Environment Group Technology & Innovation Division

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edith.guedella.bustamante@acciona.com