{"id":129427,"date":"2023-01-26T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=129427"},"modified":"2023-01-25T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:50:08","slug":"extremadura-boosts-the-building-materials-of-the-future-with-european-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/extremadura-boosts-the-building-materials-of-the-future-with-european-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremadura boosts the building materials of the future with European support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Life ReNatural, the project with European funding, whose main objective is the rehabilitation of buildings with sustainable materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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75 % of the European Union\u2019s building stock is energy inefficient. That is, every day, the buildings in which we live, work and spend most of the time, waste a lot of energy. Given the current context, improving the energy efficiency of homes and public buildings is a priority issue.<\/p>\n

The Junta de Extremadura has been researching for a decade on how to rehabilitate homes with proximity materials and that convert the places where we work, reside and live in sustainable and energy efficient spaces. Thus LIFE ReNatural was born, a project with European funding, whose main objective is the rehabilitation of buildings with sustainable materials.<\/p>\n

To date, through LIFE ReNatural, construction solutions have been developed for housing using rice husks, clay blocks and cork, materials that can be found both in Extremadura and Portugal and that have served to cover four social houses in the neighborhood of Santa Engracia, in Badajoz. Rice husk has been used to manufacture bricks and cork, hemp and kenaf have been used as thermal and acoustic insulators on decks and facades. The project has also reached other areas of the province of Badajoz, specifically the same philosophy is being applied to the rehabilitation of a public building in La Bazana and to the construction of four new social housing in Ribera del Fresno. In M\u00e9rida, a block of 16 social housing units in the L\u00e1zaro neighborhood is being rehabilitated.<\/p>\n