Construction Technology Center replicates the success of the HEATLAND project in the streets of Barcelona
The Construction Technology Center (CTCON) and the company CHM Obras e Infraestructuras, thanks to an agreement with the Barcelona City Council, have replicated the LIFE HEATLAND project in more than 4,000 m2 adjacent to the Catalan city hall. The participation of the project in the COSCI & COSTA 2021 event, organized by the LIFE COOL & LOW NOISE ASPHALT project, allowed the Barcelona City Council to learn about the initiative and take the decision to implement this pilot project in the city.
The new pavement has been laid during last weekend and, this Monday, Francisco Moral, coordinator of the LIFE HEATLAND project, Gloria Motos, from CTCON, David Nicolás and Lorena Palomo from CHM, have accompanied the Councillor for Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition of the Barcelona City Council in a visit to the new asphalted area and have been in charge of verifying that the correct indications have been followed.
CTCON will be in charge of monitoring and verifying the sustainability of the noise reduction over time until 2024.
In the Region of Murcia, the project was launched in 2018 taking as a basis the promising reflective asphalt mix developed at laboratory scale by the Technology Center in the REPARA 2.0 project. After this three-year trial, the project has shown as results an increase in solar reflectance of 173%, a decrease in surface temperature by up to 15°C and in ambient temperature by around 2°C. In addition, the ambient noise level in the area is 3 dB(A) lower.
HEATLAND, in the city of Murcia, has had four measurement towers which, over the last 3 years, have obtained 6.5 million data, recording every 15 minutes, 24 hours/day the following parameters: pavement surface temperature, air temperature, humidity, wind speed, solar radiation, atmospheric pollutants, lighting level and noise.
The LIFE HEATLAND project (LIFE16 CCA/ES/ES/000077) has been co-funded by the European Union's LIFE 2014-2020 Environment and Climate Action Program. The project consortium is formed by the Construction Technology Center of the Region of Murcia (CTCON), the construction company CHM Obras e Infraestructuras, the City of Murcia, the Regional Federation of Construction Entrepreneurs of the Region of Murcia (FRECOM) and the Slovenian Construction Cluster (SGG-CCS).
