The director of the Construction Technology Centre, 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 on the basis of the promising reflective asphalt mix developed at laboratory scale by the Technology Centre in the REPARA 2.0 project. After three years of testing, the project has shown as a result an increase in the solar reflectance of the 173% higher, decreasing the ambient temperature by around 2ºC and the asphalt temperature by up to 15ºC. In addition, the ambient noise level in the area is 3 dB(A) lower.
HEATLAND has had four measuring 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.
CTCON members were joined by the Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Infrastructures, Contracting and Development of Murcia City Council, Mario Gómez, the Councillor for European Programmes, Municipal Initiatives and Public Roads of Murcia City Council, Juan Fernando Hernández, and the delegate of CHM Obras e Infraestructuras in Murcia, Gabriel Araujo, both partners in the project.
The LIFE HEATLAND project (LIFE16 CCA/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 Centre of the Region of Murcia (CTCON), the construction company CHM Obras e Infraestructuras, the City Council of Murcia, the Regional Federation of Construction Employers of the Region of Murcia (FRECOM) and the Slovenian Construction Cluster (SGG-CCS).
Furthermore, following an agreement reached with 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.
