PROJECTSHub Criativo do Beato Living Lab is an initiative that aims to develop new technologies and services to promote the sustainability of Hub Criativo do Beato (HCB), and thus contribute with good practices tomitigate the impact of climate change.
Since the beginning Startup Lisboa, as the entity responsible for the design and implementation of the HCB, assumed sustainability as an essential dimension of the project. The HCB aims to be exemplary in themobilization and implementation of urban strategies for sustainability and environmental resilience, and therefore the projects to be developed in this living lab intervene in four priority areas: Energy, Buildings, Mobility and Circular Economy & Environment, through nine structured operations that intend to achieve its ambition of becoming a smart campus and a permanent living laboratory. The project is based on the principle of the need for concerted action between the public and private sectors with a view to a just transition to a carbon-neutral society.
Aligned with the focus on the environmental sustainability aspect of HCB, Startup Lisboa, the entityresponsible for the management of HCB, with the technical coordination of Lisboa E-Nova, with the Lisbon City Council as main partner and with partial funding from EEA Grants, implement the HCB Living Lab project, in consortium with partners, some of them residents of HCB: Carris, Circular, DST Solar, Innovation Point, Mota-Engil Renewing, Praça, Prio, Schréder, The Browers Company and Watt-IS. The project is scheduled to last three years, ending in 2024.
Through 9 distinct operations, the HCB LL will support the creation of an innovation ecosystem for urban transformation. Among these activities are:
● the establishment of a Smart Energy Community, which unites producer-consumers, consumers, and electricity storage facilities, demonstrating an advanced concept of a renewable energy community based on the solar resource;
● the implementation of an Intelligent Public Lighting system, which starts from the LED outdoor lighting system already installed in the HCB and to which several sensors will be attached that will allow an advanced management of the lighting system and ensure the reduction of energy consumption;
● the creation of spaces for Urban Agriculture on the Factory Lisbon’s roof, where a vegetable garden will be installed with distinct promotion and objectives: research, demonstration of production viability and community involvement;
● the reduction of emissions in public transport with the Beato BioBus, which uses used cooking oil collected at HCB and the local community, to produce biodiesel to be used in buses that will serve HCB;
● the implementation of a Circular Food System, which promotes circular economy in the HCB food chain, with the development of a materials flow tool associated with the catering system to evaluate short chain strategies with different territorial scopes and cycle closure;
● the launch of a CleanTech Acceleration Program to promote and support the creation of innovative products and services dedicated to clean technologies;
● the creation of the HCB i-Management Platform, an Intelligent Management Platform that brings together information from the different operations, allowing for the analysis and monitoring of the project’s main KPIs, reinforcing the implementation of the smart city strategy and allowing for the development of scientific and analytical knowledge for advanced city management,
● the creation of an HCB Sensing and Charging system, with an infrastructure of poles, equipped with occupancy and environmental sensors, sound systems, CCTV and charging of electric vehicles for soft mobility, complemented by a reference weather station and radiation sensors installed on the roofs of selected buildings;
● the creation of the HCB Data Lab, as a core of CML’s Urban Data Lab (LxDataLab), focused on challenges to the international scientific community in HCB’s priority areas.
Lisboa E-Nova is responsible for the technical coordination of the project.
Expected outcomes
This initiative will make the HCB a large-scale demonstration space, a smart campus where the deployed actions, solutions and services are expected to demonstrate the potential for replication of the approaches in practice and in a real urban environment. The planned operations will benefit the HCB entities and community, the local scientific and entrepreneurial communities, as well as inform local public policies.
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