The project ran between 2022-2024.
The national innovation cluster BioBas30 has aimed to accelerate the development and implementation of bio-based solutions and innovations across the entire value chain of the construction and civil engineering sector – from raw materials, materials, production, operation, energy and heat supply to reuse, in interaction with a sustainable energy system.
The cluster has operated within the framework of the local roadmap for a climate-neutral construction and civil engineering sector in Malmö 2030 (LFM30), which today includes over 200 actors from the sector, including 48 property developers who have each committed to deliver at least one climate-neutral project by 2025.
Since the start of BioBas30, over 100 actors have joined. Among these are municipal companies, private and public clients, financial institutions, builders/contractors, material suppliers, consultants, academia, energy and heating companies, forest and biomaterials industries, operations and management companies, and reuse companies. These actors represent the entire value chain from raw materials, materials, production, operation, energy and heating supply to reuse and compensatory measures, which is unique for a research and development platform such as BioBas30. As a national structure with the goal of building knowledge, developing, demonstrating, and commercializing bio-based solutions and value chains, this has been a decisive success factor.
BioBas30 has organized a wide range of events both nationally and locally to disseminate knowledge and connect innovative clients with material suppliers. The cluster has also initiated and participated in national collaborative projects with other initiatives in Sweden, thereby helping to strengthen the sector’s capacity for sustainable innovation. By hosting several European delegations and investment companies in the local testbed in Malmö, BioBas30 has attracted both national and international interest.
More examples of concrete work within the cluster include:
- Active environmental scanning
- Articles from pilot projects on risks traditionally associated with bio-based materials (moisture, fire, etc.)
- Monitoring the use of climate-improving measures and biomaterials in the pilot projects
- Collaboration with the Vinnova-funded project Byggherreforum, with a joint focus on links between bio-based materials and circular material flows
- Gathering cluster actors in the initiative Materialforum, a dialogue forum where material suppliers from both the fossil-based and bio-based materials industries meet to discuss joint action plans.
In these ways, BioBas30 has successfully established itself as a national platform and closed the gaps in the bio-based value chain. The cluster has created the conditions for new needs to be identified, knowledge and experiences to be shared, and new constellations of actors and business models to be formed – all of which have accelerated the implementation of new solutions in society.
Management and coordination
Local roadmap Malmö 2030 Economic association
Contact
Jennifer Cronborn
jennifer.cronborn@lfm30.se
Total project cost
4 981 600 SEK
The Swedish Energy Agency’s project number
2021-00288