URBCON

URBCON is an ambitious European Interreg project, in which bright minds search for new and especially sustainable techniques and materials for the construction sector. We specialise in clean concrete, and through our work, we try to reduce the use of raw materials and CO2 emissions. With the focus on the metropolitan areas of Ghent, Rotterdam and Northern France, by-products such as metallic slags and incineration ashes are used as alternative raw materials for the production of concrete. Together with our partners, we make a green future concrete. The main objectives of the project are: - Development of concretes with 100% by-products (aggregate) as well as with clinker-efficient cements - Networking of by-product providers and construction industry by means of a web-based platform for forecasting availability and considering the logistical chains underlying the construction demand; - Testing of the concretes developed in the project (URBCON concretes) on the basis of three pilot projects (including a school building in Ghent); - Preparation of a Strategic Technology Transfer Plan: proposals for policy frameworks, life cycle assessments, pre-normative work, economic feasibility studies.