BB1.2-New Material/Product Development

Sousana Sousa & Tânia Vanessa Pinto

  • Description

Consulting service and material development, including testing, prototype production for Sustainable Lightweight Concretes (LWC) – integration of recycled materials

  • Standardisation

Procedures applied for testing the developed materials follow reference standards in the sector (es. EN standards)

  • Innovation features

Concretes can be designed case by case

Pricing

CETMA: The quotation of this service is 150 €/h (materials, consumables excluded).

Service delivery timeframe

1-3 months to initiate the service (experimental plan+procurement of materials); 3-12 months to complete the material development (formulation, validation). NOTE - This is an hypotesis, the service timeframe has to be defined case by case.

  • Relevant Industry

Construction sector - companies interested in the development of sustainable concretes; Recycling sector - companies interested in the valorization of their end-of-life materials

Providers

CETMA

Supporting Services

BB2 - Characterization Services

  • Value proposition

CETMA is a Research and Technology Organization (RTO) with more that 30 years of experience in applied and industrial research activities and offers technological consultancy in the sectors of new materials and new technologies. In the civil engineering sector we have developed extensive experience, acquired in numerous research projects and in collaboration with companies, and we are able to offer advanced services to construction companies interested in the development of innovative, sustainable solutions or new products.

  • Environmental and social impact

The concretes that can be delevoped are sustainable for the type of materials to be used (secondary raw materials)

  • Geographical and/or infraestructure restrictions

Material production and development as defined order: no geografical limitation (except transport, transfer cost and energy consumption)

  • Service Support

KoM meeting to define customer needs - Follow-up meetings during the service period to present the results - Final report