SUCCESS
Sustainable Urban Consolidation CentrES for conStruction
The development of urban centres is becoming an essential need for the growing population of European Cities, calling for a continuous rise in construction material freight logistics.
However, this development leads to several economic and environmental challenges.
The European Sustainable Urban Consolidation CentrES for con Struction (SUCCESS) project aims to improve efficiency and reduce the negative impacts of the construction supply chain by exploring and testing reliable and innovative solutions.
Something to Know About SUCCESS
CALL
MG-5.2-2014
DURATION
05/2015 – 04/2018
OBJECTIVES
SUCCESS aims to explore, find and test green and efficient solutions regarding various issues in Construction Supply Chain and material freight logistics in urban areas.
The SUCCESS project intends to analyse these problems and find solutions by exploring the impacts of Supply Chain Management and Construction Consolidation Centres (CCCs ) to develop business plans focusing on the implementation of a sustainable urban supply chain.
ICOOR ROLE AND MEMBERS
ICOOR deals with technological optimisation in the area of Buildings and Constructions, Energy and ICT. The main activities of ICOOR were related to construction logistics .
The ICOOR main contribution in the project has been on the design, development, and test of mathematical and optimization tools and in their evaluation and validation. ICOOR has been mainly active in WP2 – Quantitative Analysis, Measures and Data Collection, WP3 – Methodologies and Optimisation tools, WP4 – Solutions Design and Test, and WP5 – Evaluation and Validation.
ICOOR members: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
SUCCESS Contacts
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