Within the scope of the GreeNexUs consortium that Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções is part of, the Company participated in what was the first week of project training held in the city of Imola, in Italy, at the end of May. The initiative, promoted by the University of Bologna, brought together 10 doctoral students and members of the Executive Board, Training Committee and Supervisory Board of GreeNexUs, in addition to professors from European universities, research centers, companies and NGOs participating in the consortium.
Focusing on sharing concepts about green urbanism, the program included a series of lectures, workshops and a hackathon. In the sessions, some constructive solutions that have been adopted were disseminated, such as green roofs and sponge cities, as well as methodologies and practical approaches. Other topics covered were the regeneration of consolidated urban contexts and the Life Cycle Thinking methodology in new green infrastructures.
In addition to the training activities, GreeNexUs Week also includes the curricular stages of evaluation and monitoring of doctorates and project progress, with a view to ensuring that it runs in accordance with regulations and that all necessary processes are adequately managed, ensuring the compliance, efficiency and project success.
Part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, GreeNexUs is funded by “Horizonte Europa”, the European Union’s Research and Innovation framework program, and allows a total of 20 institutions from 9 European countries to work on 10 specific and multidisciplinary themes that they want transforming Europe’s cities to become greener, healthier and safer, helping to reduce threats to the mental and physical well-being of an aging society with growing inequalities.
Teixeira Duarte is, together with 6 European universities, a beneficiary of this fully funded project, leading the “Green-BIM” theme, within the scope of which, and together with the Instituto Superior Técnico, it is guiding the doctorate “DC6- BIM workflow for green high–performance building: design to construction”.