FISSAC project: Fostering Industrial Symbiosis for a Sustainable resource intensive industry Across the extended construction value Chain
The Horizon Europe FISSAC project aimed to develop and demonstrate a new paradigm built on an innovative industrial symbiosis model. This model was intended to deliver a zero waste approach in the resource-intensive industries of the construction value chain.
It involved stakeholders at all levels of the construction and demolition value chain and aimed to develop a methodology and software platform to facilitate information exchange, support industrial symbiosis networks and replicate pilot schemes at local and regional levels.
Specifically, it looked at the steel, aluminium, natural stone, chemical and demolition and construction sectors, along with stakeholders in the extended construction value chain. It identified ways to overcome technical and non-technical barriers, as well as standardisation concerns to implement and replicate industrial symbiosis at local/regional level.
The project:
- produced a collection of good practices in the field of industrial symbiosis;
- produced a report on industrial symbiosis indicators;
- tested new eco-materials in various demo-sites;
- involved stakeholders through living labs;
- produced a platform designed to facilitate the establishment and operation of Industrial Symbiosis networks;
- analysed the role of local authorities in fostering industrial symbiosis.