Objective
TailorCrete will initiate a transition from the rectangular monotony of today’s industrialised concrete buildings that dominate the European landscape, to new industrialised unique concrete structures without the need for expensive and labour-intensive manual construction processes. This will be achieved by developing new industrialised processes for concrete, and thus play a significant role in transforming the construction sector from a resource-based to a knowledge-based industry. TailorCrete combines the knowledge resources of architects, designers, concrete technologists, civil and structural engineers, robot experts with the practical experiences of key players in the construction sector in a 4-year collaborative research. It will involve intensive testing and validation of results at laboratory scale and in full-scale demonstrations in experimental buildings. TailorCrete will also make a significant contribution toward reduction of the environmental impact from construction and reduce the costs by replacing low skilled labour with high-end technologies with significant export potential. Life cycle assessment of the new technologies will be carried out in terms of costs, environmental and aesthetic aspects and performance relevance to the user. The effects of building standards and codes will be assessed. TailorCrete will develop a core of new technologies including digital architecture, new formwork and reinforcement systems and materials as well as digital fabrication tools to radically change the way concrete is currently produced and used. These technologies will replace the use of traditional formwork and thus enable greater flexibility in producing singular concrete structures with different geometric designs. Through the development and use of self-compacting concrete with robots, a link will be created between digital design and the fabrication of materials and components and ultimately to the on-site construction processes.
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Call for proposal
FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
2630 Taastrup
Denmark
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Participants (15)
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34420 Karaköy, Istanbul
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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8092 Zuerich
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5230 Odense M
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160 00 Praha
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33007 Oviedo
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8210 Århus V
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34425 BEYOGLU ISTANBUL
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5260 Odense S
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8703 Erlenbach
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32676 Lügde
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28050 MADRID
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2300 Copenhagen S
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8550 Zwevegem
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2860 SOBORG
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