37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

XXXVII <strong>IAHS</strong><strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> on HousingOctober 26 – 29, 2010, Santander, SpainCODE: 1053REHABILITATION OF BUILDINGS AND KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT: PROJECT HKNOWA. Soeiro and A. SáDepartment of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Portoe-mail: avsoeiro@fe.up.pt; vazsa@fe.up.ptKey words: building rehabilitation, knowledge management, SME, network, learning, ICT,university-industryAbstractThe project HKNOW was the first project of 7th Framework Program to be approved in2008.The title is "Advanced Infrastructure for Knowledge Based Services for RestoringBuildings". It makes part of the Theme 4 - NMP - "Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies,Materials and new Production Technologies". Is it in sub-program Project CollaborationAimed at Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It has a total funding of the EuropeanCommission about 1.9 M € and a cost of about 2.6 M €. Has fifteen partners from fivecountries: Portugal, Italy, Germany, France and Spain. The partners in Portugal are 3M2P,INESC, FEUP, STB and Vortal. The project is due to the increasing number of complexworks of rehabilitation of buildings that require rapid and systematic access to specificknowledge of such operations. A promising approach to facilitate such access is by providingSMEs in building rehabilitation the proper knowledge through collaborative businessnetworks formed by these companies and partners to research and development (R&D). Theseinnovative solutions for these communities SME-R&D is intended to create and reuseknowledge across a common work and ensure a bi-directional flow between the two sectors.This work provides: (a) provision for community learning the fundamental knowledge and theorganization of tacit knowledge of SMEs and (b) closer business collaboration between SMEsand R&D. The intention is also to ensure greater efficiency in the dissemination offundamental knowledge to create a delivery service with an added value to potentialusers. The project plans to develop solutions based on information technology andcommunication that are satisfactory for SMEs which include (1) knowledge that is innovativeand competitive and related training through the provision of services and (2) support forimplementation of new forms of collaboration SME-R&D through networking.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 367