THE HEATLAND PROJECT REDUCES THE TEMPERATURE OF THE STREETS OF THE INFANTE DISTRICT OF MURCIA BY UP TO 15°C DEGREES.
The director of the Technological Center of Construction, Antonio Trigueros, accompanied by the technical coordinator of the LIFE HEATLAND project, Francisco Moral, have presented this morning the main conclusions of the project at the headquarters of CROEM.
The project was launched in 2018 taking as a basis the promising reflective asphalt mixture 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 a 173% higher solar reflectance increase, decreasing around 2ºC the ambient temperature and up to 15ºC the asphalt temperature. In addition, the ambient noise level in the area is 3 dB(A) lower.
HEATLAND has had four measuring towers which, over the course of these 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.
Along with the members of CTCON, the Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Infrastructures, Contracting and Development of the City of Murcia, Mario Gómez, the Councillor for European Programs, Municipal Initiatives and Public Roads of the City of Murcia, Juan Fernando Hernández, and the delegate of CHM Obras e Infraestructuras in Murcia, Gabriel Araujo, both partners of the project, were also present.
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 Programme. 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).
In addition, following an agreement reached with the Barcelona City Council, the project will be replicated in one of the city's streets at the end of November with a total surface area of approximately 4,200 m2.
