Bio-intelligent products manufacturing 4 sustainable cities

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It aims to develop and manufacture bio-intelligent, sustainable, circular, and safe modular construction products to pioneer a new way of building in modern architecture.

The project is built on 3 working fields:
i) Circular and sustainable biobased materials for Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes
ii) production "biologisation" through highly flexible digital and robotised AM
iii) manufacturing-enabled bio-intelligent product performance. Green and circular geopolymer-based mortars will be fine-tuned for the AM processes and generative AI tools will be employed to explore novel bio-mimicking structures.

AM will provide the high level of flexibility and customization required, and it will work on extending 3D printing systems capabilities (at HW and SW levels) targeting bio-intelligent performance. Manufacturing will be further supported by process and products Digital Twins, simulation workflows, and AI-based decision support tools for Zero Defect Manufacturing. Moreover, a standardized and interoperable digital framework will be deployed, together with a Digital Product Passport, and environmental impact, circularity and safety will be considered through sound SSbD methodologies. The bio-intelligent modular structures will be deployed and validated in 3 Smart Living Labs with different functional requirements and climatic conditions.

AIMEN will be responsible for developing sustainable construction materials with different fillers for functional performance, implementation of a robotic system for 3D printing of large components with complex geometries, and acoustic simulations for materials and designs.

• Sectors: Construction
• Financing programme: HORIZON EUROPE
• R&D&i: 3D Printing, Additive manufacturing, Artificial intelligence, Circular Economy, Mass customization, Materials under extreme conditions
• Leader: Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón
• Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico, Core Innovation and Technology OE, IRES - Innovation in Research and Engineering Solutions, IRIS Technology Solutions S.L., ACCIONA CONSTRUCCIÓN SA, RINA Consulting S.p.A., VERTICO BV, EIT Manufacturing North AB
• Acronym: BIOGEMSE
• Ambit: International