RE-MED

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Application de l'innovation pour le développement de l'économie circulaire pour une construction durable en Méditerranée

About the project

RE-MED arises from the need to reduce the environmental and health impacts due to failures in the management of construction and demolition waste (CDW). The project aims to transfer and experiment technologies enabling CDW to be transformed into resources for the construction and maintenance of roads. The project includes the construction of CDW recycling plants and aims to leverage the societal, environmental and digital transition of Mediterranean territories. A road section integrating CDW will be built and evaluated to demonstrate the concept. A full work program will be set up and shared on the RE-MED community collaborative platform. The project will implement structured training, scientific and public dissemination, methodological guides and draft standards, as well as models of efficient economy to integrate the dimension of sustainable development in the road sector. The project also intends to support the Tunisian and Lebanese environment Ministries in order to change the regulations to facilitate the use of at least 20% of recycled aggregates in road construction, and thus open up a construction waste market.

Key information

Acronym:

RE-MED

Full title:

Application de l'innovation pour le développement de l'économie circulaire pour une construction durable en Méditerranée

Thematic objective:

A.2 Support to education, research, technological development and innovation

Priority:

A.2.1 Technological transfer and commercialisation of research results

Countries:

France, Italy, Tunisia, Lebanon

Financial data

3 million

Total budget

2.7 million

EU contribution

10%

Project co-financing

Highlights

Project in numbers

Partners

Countries

Technical outputs

Project duration

Start date

04 September 2020

End date

03 December 2023

Partnership

News

Events

Library

Deliverables

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Videos

Objective

To support technology transfer to increase the value of construction waste and boost its use in road construction, integrating at least 30% of recycled materials, while transferring and disseminating recycling practices, thus accelerating the development of a new market

What will be improved?

RE-MED will open up a niche in the construction market, environmentally sustainable, by using CDW as an economic value. The project will promote a regulatory evolution establishing the use of recycled CDW in road construction of 20% of the total in the short term and 40% in the long term, as well as the adoption of new standards related to the treatment of CDW and their characteristics, such as the nomenclature of the waste and the standards of the tests. The cooperation will enable the promotion of CDW valorization techniques and innovative technologies in the 4 partner countries while producing new tools. The project will also deliver well cross-border trainings so that future professionals in the sector can apply these techniques.

Who will benefit?

6 national public authorities: Ministries of equipment, Economy and Finance, Interior, which will be involved in the regulatory evolution process
National Agencies in the waste, environment and construction sectors
50 road owners and managers
6 federations and associations in the road and solid waste sector
1 standardization body
7 expert networks such engineers’ international associations
5 technology platforms and research centers
Construction companies
Motorway users

Expected achievements

1 plant for CDW sorting and treatment built
1 km of innovative pilot roads built
1 RE-MED community online platform set up for knowledge sharing
6 training programs implemented
6 scientific publications released
4 law/decree proposals
1 registered patent
3 spin-offs established

Contribution to policy-making

The project will contribute to the evolution of public policies in Tunisia and Lebanon for the development of CDW markets. Nowadays, the construction material storage facilities have reached their limits and do not have the institutional and technological capacities for recycling. RE-MED will support the competent Ministries in drafting laws and regulations as well as new standards, which will thus get closer to EU standards. It is also planned at the end of the project that the Tunisian government imposes on construction companies to work with recycling companies and sets up a subsidy system up to 20% of investments in the collection and recycling of CDW.

About the project

Acronym

RE-MED

Title

Application de l'innovation pour le développement de l'économie circulaire pour une construction durable en Méditerranée

Description

RE-MED est né de la nécessité de réduire les impacts environnementaux et sanitaires dus aux défaillances de la gestion des déchets de construction et de démolition (DC&D). RE-MED vise à transférer et expérimenter des technologies permettant de transformer ces DC&D en ressources pour la construction et l’entretien des routes en adaptant ses savoir-faire techniques et technologiques à l'environnement socio-économique et réglementaire et aux besoins spécifiques du projet. L’enjeu de ce transfert technologique est d’amorcer la construction d’une filière de recyclage des DC&D et d’en faire un levier pour la transition sociétale, environnementale et digitale des territoires méditerranéens. Un programme de travail complet, transfrontalier impliquant les pouvoirs publics, les entreprises, les organismes d’enseignement et de recherche et les citoyens sera mis en place et partagé sur la plateforme collaborative RE-MED community. Le projet mettra en œuvre des formations structurées, des communications scientifiques et de vulgarisation, des guides méthodologiques et des projets de normes, des modèles économiques efficients pour intégrer la dimension du développement durable dans le domaine des routes et se rapprocher d’une « société du recyclage ». La démonstration concrète étant le meilleur des outils pour convaincre et faire naître une dynamique, une section routière intégrant les DC&D sera construite et évaluée pour démontrer le concept. L'objectif étant, une fois l'intérêt évalué, d'accompagner les ministères de l'environnement Tunisien et Libanais afin de faire évoluer la réglementation pour imposer l'utilisation de 20% de granulats recyclés dans la construction de route et ouvrir ainsi un marché du déchet de construction. Grâce à la coopération RE-MED permettra de créer une « communauté ressources urbaines » et aura des retombées sur l’économie locale, le renforcement des capacités des territoires méditerranéens et contribuera à une « territorialisation des ODD».

Role

Name of the organisation

Country

Region

Contact

Lead beneficiary

Centre d'études et d'expertise sur les risques, l'environnement, la mobilité et l'aménagement, Direction Territoriale Méditerranée

France

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Partner 1

SARL DYNEDOC

France

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Partner 2

Université de Palerme

Italy

Sicilia

Partner 3

Centre d'Essais et des Techniques de Construction

Tunisia

Partner 4

Ministère de l’Environnement / Unité de gestion par objectifs pour le Programme National de la Propreté et de l’Esthétique de

Tunisia

Partner 6

Ministère de l’environnement

Lebanon

Partner 7

Syndicat Libanais des Entrepreneurs des Travaux Publics

Lebanon

Partner 8

Université Américaine de Beyrouth

Lebanon

Partner 9

Société Respect Environnement Group

Tunisia

Associates

Role

Name of the organisation

Country

Associate 1

Institut Supérieur des Sciences et Techniques des Eaux de Gabès (ISSTEG)

Tunisia

Associate 2

école des ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT)

Tunisia

Associate 3

Institut National de la Normalisation et de la Propriété Industrielle (INNORPI)

Tunisia

Project news

07 September 2023

En Tunisie, RE-MED étend la consultation BIM (Building Information Modeling)

Date limite de candidature: 13/09/2023

Sustainable tourism

Technology transfer

Elderly care

Water efficiency

About the project

Key information

Financial data

Highlights

Project in numbers

Project duration

Partnership

News

Events

Library

Deliverables

Documents

Videos

Objective

What will be improved?

Who will benefit?

Expected achievements

Contribution to policy-making

About the project

Associates

En Tunisie, RE-MED étend la consultation BIM (Building Information Modeling)

RE-MED organizes an open and free training in Lebanon

RE-MED highlights the importance to quantify the impact of construction waste

RE-MED highlights the cooperation of actors of the value chain in the construction waste management

RE-MED promotes the use of construction waste for the environment and job creation

How to reduce landfilling and to decrease pressure on land use ? RE-MED answers.

RE-MED explains the environmental impact of using recycled aggregates

RE-MED explains how to increase the use of Reclaimed Asphalt in Italy towards a circular economy

RE-MED presents its first result at the circular economy and urban mining symposium in Italy

RE-MED launches a call for subgrants to support the reuse of construction and demolition waste

RE-MED in Lebanon was presented to 200 contractors and engineers in public works and buildings

RE-MED explains the different phases to transform demolition waste into recycled materials

RE-MED partners met in Italy to discuss the work on construction and demolition waste

RE-MED in Tunisia will build a section of road from construction waste

RE-MED promotes the construction of roads from construction waste during the debate between Mediterranean elected officials

RE-MED stakeholders and experts debate on how to implement construction and demolition waste

RE-MED participates in the benchmark trade fair for environmental professionals, POLLUTEC

Tunisia: the RE-MED project is looking for an expert in strategic consulting and coordination of activities

RE-MED: Italian partners visit the Sicilian plant of construction and demolition waste

RE-MED: Interview of a Lebanese contracting company to share his experience on Construction & Demolition waste use in road

[RE-MED] Call for tenders: the Ministry of Local Affairs and Environment (Tunisia) is looking for an events agency

[RE-MED] Call for proposal : the Ministry of Local Affairs and Environment (Tunisia) is looking for an external auditor

[RE-MED] Tunisia : the Ministry of Local Affairs and the Environment is recruiting administrative and financial assistants

RE-MED project recruits an external auditor in Tunisia

France: RE-MED is recruiting an expert to support the project's management and communication activities

Italy: RE-MED is hiring 5 postdoctoral research fellows

Tunisia: the RE-MED project is looking for an external auditor

RE-MED project was presented during the 5th Symposium on Urban Mining and Circular Economy

Italy: RE-MED is looking for an external auditor

Projects view

RE-MED organise un séminaire en Tunisie

RE-MED fera le point sur la route expérimentale et la gestion des déchets de la construction

RE-MED meets to discuss the experimental road to be built from construction waste

Field visit of RE-MED team in Tunisia on construction waste

RE-MED team collaborates with the Ministry of Equipment in Tunisia

RE-MED partners meet to discuss details of its road experiment, training and more related to construction and demolition waste

Italy: RE-MED organizes a workshop on Circular Economy during the 18th International Symposium "Sardinia 2021"

The partners of the RE-MED project meet to take stock of the future site of the 1st experimental road integrating recycled materials from demolition in Tunisia

[Tunisia]: Call of interest for the building of two treatment facilities for construction and demolition waste within the framework of RE-MED project

[Tunisia] First international seminar of RE-MED project "Circular economy for sustainable construction in the Mediterranean"

RE-MED participation in the Europe Day young people debate organized by the ENI CBC Med Programme

France: RE-MED presented at the Europe & International Breakfast of the Center for Studies and Expertise on Risks, Environment, Mobility and Planning

RE-MED participates in the 2020 edition of Pollutec exhibition

RE-MED project was presented at the webinar "Green Hour: Materials" in Arabic ساعة خضراء: المواد

RE-MED project to promote sustainable construction in the Mediterranean