Compete 2020
Blocotelha’s Standardised Modular Steel Structure Connection
Project Title | Blocotelha’s Standardised Modular Steel Structure Connection
Project Code | POCI-01-0249-FEDER-018120
Main Objective | Strengthen research, technological development, and innovation.
Approval Date | 04-10-2016
Start Date | 23-03-2016
Completion Date | 31-12-2017
Total Eligible Cost | €3,865,300.00
Total Funding | €1,739,385.00
Investment Made | €3,707,755.47
Blocotelha follows a global differentiation strategy, leveraging and strengthening its competitive advantages in the market by focusing on the added value of its production and enhancing the value of the steel structures it offers.
With this product innovation project, Blocotelha aims to introduce a new and internationally innovative product to the market: steel structures made with standardised profile configurations, featuring high reliability, robustness, and quality.
Production standardisation, achieved through high automation levels, will allow for optimised production times, reduced waste, and the ability to harness its productive potential for strategic market segments such as energy, modular construction, and oil & gas, which demand high standards and offer greater added value across the entire value chain.
EM_CURVE: Additive Manufacturing Applied to Nonlinear (Curved) Steel Structures
Project Title | EM_CURVE: Additive Manufacturing Applied to Nonlinear (Curved) Steel Structures
Project Code | POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045320
Main Objective | Strengthen research, technological development, and innovation.
Approval Date | 14-07-2020
Start Date | 05-11-2020
Completion Date | 30-06-2023
Total Eligible Cost | €1,294,257.83
Total Funding | €722,221.24
Investment Made | €1,842,946.92
This project aims to develop a new methodology for constructing large-scale steel structures with nonlinear (curved) geometries using an innovative additive manufacturing technology.
The new solution is expected to enable the construction of complex steel structures through a technology that promotes (i) a sustainable, time- and resource-efficient, and technically accurate production process; (ii) a new product with enhanced safety, morphological, chemical, mechanical, thermal, and flexibility/adaptability properties; and (iii) simplified assembly and welding.