Re-designing the construction sector

WORKPACKAGES

Sustainable and functional bio-based construction products and building elements.

Work Packages

WorkPackages

This work package ensures that BIOS MATER runs smoothly and achieves its scientific, technical, and strategic goals. The team coordinates all partners, manages data and innovation processes, and guarantees quality, transparency, and compliance with EU regulations and ethics. Through effective communication and monitoring, WP1 supports seamless collaboration and the successful delivery of all project outcomes.

Main results:

  • Robust governance and risk management framework
  • FAIR-compliant data and innovation management plan
  • Continuous legal, ethical, and sustainability oversight

Led by: CIRCE

This work package sets the foundation for BIOS MATER by designing the framework, requirements, and principles that guide the development of safe, sustainable, and high-performing bio-based construction products.
 Through a co-creation approach that brings together multiple actors across the value chain, WP2 defines the product design, safety standards, and technical specifications needed to transform innovative ideas into real, demonstrable solutions. The work also establishes the key performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluating BIOS MATER products in real-life environments at the DEMOpark.

Main results:

  • Co-creation framework and stakeholder mapping for multi-actor collaboration
  • Benchmarking and barrier analysis of bio-based construction products
  • Safety and sustainability-by-design (SSbD) framework
  • Technical and functional specifications for BIOS MATER prototypes
  • Defined KPIs and evaluation methods for DEMOpark demonstrations

Led by: LEVERY

This work package turns BIOS MATER’s vision into tangible, high-performing bio-based materials. WP3 focuses on redesigning and producing innovative construction products made from sustainable feedstocks — combining scientific excellence, circular design, and digital traceability.
 From walls and floors to panels and tiles, each product is engineered for strength, insulation, and durability while remaining recyclable, biodegradable, and safe by design.

Through four parallel production routes, the partners develop:

  • Bio-based sandwich structures for flooring, interior panelling, and furniture
  • Functional wall panels and flooring tiles produced by in-mold injection and 3D printing
  • Fibre-reinforced bio-resin composites for façade applications
  • Biodegradable and plantable tiles from insulation foams for interior drywalls

A data-sharing platform ensures every step of production — from sustainable sourcing to testing — is traceable and integrated into a Digital Product Passport (DPP). This guarantees transparency, circularity, and compliance with European sustainability standards.

Main results:

  • Sustainable sourcing and certification framework for bio-based feedstocks
  • Four production routes for advanced bio-based construction products
  • Testing and validation protocols aligned with EU standards
  • Data-sharing platform and Digital Product Passport (DPP) for traceability and monitoring
  • Scalable production and demonstration-ready prototypes

Led by: CEL

This work package brings BIOS MATER’s innovations from the lab to the real world. WP4 focuses on testing and validating bio-based construction products under real-life conditions, proving their technical, environmental, and social performance.

At the heart of this effort is the BIOS MATER DEMOpark, a unique testing facility where new bio-based walls, floors, and façade elements will be installed and monitored. Here, partners will assess how these materials perform throughout their entire life cycle — from installation and use to end-of-life and recycling.

Digital tools like Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Digital Twins will be used to monitor energy performance, air quality, and comfort in real time, ensuring that BIOS MATER products deliver both environmental and living-quality benefits. The demonstration also examines how bio-based construction can reduce renovation disruption, improve indoor environments, and contribute to healthier, more sustainable buildings.

Finally, WP4 assesses social acceptance and market readiness, gathering feedback from citizens, professionals, and policymakers to identify barriers and design strategies for adoption across Europe.

Main results:

  • Real-life testing of BIOS MATER bio-based products at the DEMOpark
  • Digital monitoring of energy and indoor environmental performance
  • Integration of results into BIM and Digital Twin tools
  • Methodology for low-disruptive and healthy renovations
  • Insights into social acceptance and adoption readiness

Led by: CIRCE

This work package ensures that BIOS MATER products are not only innovative, but also safe, sustainable, and circular by design. WP5 evaluates every solution through the lenses of environment, society, economy, and safety — following the EU’s Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles.

Through a series of interconnected assessments, the partners will measure the full life cycle of BIOS MATER products — from raw materials to end-of-life — to quantify their environmental footprint, social and economic impacts, and overall contribution to circularity and carbon reduction.

The work also integrates all findings into a holistic SSbD framework, ensuring that BIOS MATER’s innovations align with the highest sustainability and safety standards while supporting future European policies for sustainable construction.

Main results:

  • Comprehensive environmental, social, and economic Life Cycle Assessments (LCA, s-LCA, LCC)
  • Safety and toxicity assessment of materials and processes aligned with SSbD principles
  • Integrated sustainability index combining environmental, social, and economic indicators
  • Circularity analysis and carbon removal potential for bio-based construction products
  • Holistic SSbD framework linking risk, sustainability, and circularity assessments
  • Evidence base for policy recommendations on safe and sustainable bio-based materials

Led by: DREVEN

This work package turns BIOS MATER innovations into market-ready, competitive, and safe bio-based products. WP6 focuses on how the project’s results can reach the market, scale beyond the demo phase, and strengthen Europe’s leadership in sustainable construction materials.

The partners will analyse the market landscape, develop business models and IPR strategies, and prepare go-to-market and scale-up plans for each production route. Beyond construction, WP6 will also explore how BIOS MATER materials can be adapted for other sectors — such as transportation and furniture — expanding their impact and commercial potential.

At the same time, the work package will ensure that BIOS MATER products align with European and international standards, support new certification pathways, and translate project findings into policy recommendations advancing the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework.

Main results:

  • Market and exploitation strategy for BIOS MATER products
  • Scalable, sustainable business models and IPR management framework
  • Techno-economic scale-up strategy for industrial production routes
  • Validation of BIOS MATER materials in other sectors (transport, furniture)
  • Contributions to new standards and certification procedures for bio-based materials
  • Policy recommendations and updates to the EU SSbD framework

Led by: F6S

This work package ensures that BIOS MATER’s results reach people — from citizens and professionals to policymakers and educators. WP7 brings together all communication, dissemination, and public engagement activities, turning scientific progress into impact and visibility across Europe.

The work begins with a comprehensive dissemination and communication strategy, defining key audiences, tools, and activities to promote BIOS MATER’s mission and results. Throughout the project, partners will produce videos, visuals, articles, and open data; manage the website and social media; and coordinate project presence at conferences, trade fairs, and media outlets.

A Europe-wide stakeholder engagement campaign will connect the project with manufacturers, builders, policymakers, and citizens. Through workshops, events, and the BIOS MATER Club, the project will foster dialogue, build trust, and involve early adopters in co-creating the transition to bio-based construction.

WP7 also develops training activities for professionals and students, creating pathways for workforce upskilling through on-site workshops, digital modules, and collaborations with the New European Bauhaus Academy. Finally, the work package synthesizes project insights into policy recommendations, helping shape future European frameworks for sustainable and circular construction.

Main results:

  • Communication and dissemination strategy and toolkit
  • Continuous promotion across digital and media channels
  • Stakeholder engagement campaign and BIOS MATER Club
  • Training materials and workshops for professionals and students
  • Policy and technical recommendations for bio-based construction
  • Synergies with EU initiatives such as Process4Planet and the New European Bauhaus

Led by: ABE