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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - Madaster (Towards a circular economy: Eliminate waste through an open platform that facilitates material passports)

Teaser

Summary

â€œWaste is Material without an Identityâ€ â€“ Thomas Rau, architect
Our planet is a closed system with finite resources. The current economic system is strongly based on consuming and discarding materials and products. Combined with the growing population and strong economic growth this leads to a rapid depletion of the earthâ€™s valuable resources while creating huge amounts of waste. We consume materials at a rate that requires 6 Earths by 2050 to meet our current demand for resources. Continuing our current way of living and consuming, all our critical materials will be depleted within 10 to 50 years from now, leading to severe economic scarcity. Therefore, it is critical to change our current linear economy and move towards a sustainable circular economy in which resources are reused and recycled while eliminating the production of waste. Looking beyond the current â€˜take, make, use and dumpâ€™ extractive industrial model, the circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design. Relying on system-wide innovation, the circular economy aims to redefine products and services to create resources from waste, while minimising negative impacts. The economic value of creating such a circular economy can increase the efficiency of resource use with up to 3% annually. This may not seem like much, but this adds up to benefits of â‚¬1.8 trillion by 2030 in Europe alone.
A surge of initiatives that aim to make the move toward more sustainable circular models of reuse and recycling have been launched in recent years. However, most of the circular initiatives failed to create sustainable material cycles due to a lack of usable information on material contents and manner of construction. This information is of utmost importance to allow re-use and recycling of materials and thus, to maintain the materialâ€™s value. Consequently, this will result in the thoughtful deconstruction of products, maintaining their valuable materials and subsequent re-use or recycling, minimizing waste.
The aim of this Madaster project is to provide a disruptive and vital innovation towards a circular economy by providing the necessary material and product information through the Madaster platform.
To achieve this, the following project objectives are defined:
1. Produce Material Passports of construction objects in an operational setting. These Material Passports contain:
- an overview of products, components and materials used in a specific construction object;
- a current financial valuation of those products and materials;
- an assessment of the share of value that can be retained when a building is deconstructed (circular value).
2. Develop protocols for data extraction and integration of resource-related information of construction.
3. Create an open-standard IT infrastructure to enhance interoperability with other systems that will make use of the resource-related information of construction objects in the database.
4. Develop a clearly defined business strategy for the Madaster Platform, the Material Passport and data services.

Work performed

Reporting Period 1, 2 and 3
WP1 â€“ Platform development
Overall progress 100%
All tasks as described under \'Description of work and role of partners\' in the Grant Agreement have been completed.
Statement of requirements (100%)
Platform structuring (progress: 100%)
Development protocol non-BIM files (progress: 100%)
Protocols easy exportation (progress: 100%)
Continuous improvements iterative process (progress: 100%)

WP2 â€“ Data management: integrity, scalability, security
Overall progress 100%
All tasks as described under \'Description of work and role of partners\' in the Grant Agreement have been completed.
Highly scalable platform development (progress: 100%)
Security and data management (progress: 100%)

WP3 â€“ Direct data integration
Overall progress 100%
All tasks as described under \'Description of work and role of partners\' in the Grant Agreement have been completed.
Development model circular valuation (progress: 100%)
Development rule engine circular valuation (progress: 100%)
Development model financial valuation (progress: 100%)
Development rule engine financial valuation (progress: 100%)

WP4 â€“ Third party services, databases and IT platform
Overall progress 100%
All tasks as described under \'Description of work and role of partners\' in the Grant Agreement have been completed.
Integration of external data sources (progress: 100%)
Integration of 3rd party solutions (progress: 100%)
Integration of suppliers and producer (progress: 100%)
Integration of validation and certification (progress: 100%)

WP5 â€“ Inter-country adaptability to gain Europe-wide coverage
Overall progress 100%
All tasks as described under \'Description of work and role of partners\' in the Grant Agreement have been completed.
Research inter-country differences in construction standards (progress: 100%)
Adaptation of BIM-file import protocols to local customs and requirements (progress: 100%)
Adaptation of external data sources and 3rd party solutions for the targeted countries (progress: 100%)
Translation of the website for expanded use (100%)

WP6 â€“ Business model definition
Overall progress 100%
All tasks as described under \'Description of work and role of partners\' in the Grant Agreement have been completed.
Research different business models (progress: 100%)
Selection and in-depth research business models (progress: 100%)
Strategy definition based on business models (progress: 100%)
Communication and dissemination (progress: 100%)

WP7 â€“ Project management
Overall progress 100%
3/3 of project length

Final results

The project is completed and has achieved its expected results as described in the Grant Agreement. In the first reporting period Madaster has developed the first version of the Madaster platform and released it to the public. This Minimal Viable Product foresees in a large number of functionalities (also see previous content block) and reports. In the second reporting period additional functionalities have been added, specifically for the circular indicator and the financial valuation (amongs others). In the final reporting period, the internationalization has been completed and integration of third parties was realized (amongst others). Overall all deliverables and milestones as defined for reporting period 1,2 and 3 have been completed and uploaded succesfully. In order to validate realised functionalities on the Madaster platform, a demo account has been made available to the EC. Details regarding this account are available under each work package section in the continuous reporting (\'MdS - SMEInst-01-2016-2017 - Attachment - Madaster platform login credentials demo account.pdf\'). Pleasse also refer to the milestones summary/description for additional (re)viewing possibilities.