TECNALIA presents innovative technologies to automate and industrialise construction at REBUILD 2025
- The research and technological development centre will present an industrialised modular balcony, an industrialised modular façade with bio-based materials, robotic solutions for the industrialisation of construction systems, an aerial robot for contact tasks, a sensor and AI system for the recovery of materials, as well as assessment and certification services.
22 April 2025. The TECNALIA research and technological development centre will be present at REBUILD 2025 with its technological developments in automation, industrialisation, digitalisation and decarbonisation for construction. The event, which is the largest innovation forum for the transformation of the sector, will be held from 23rd to 25th April at IFEMA, Madrid, and TECNALIA will have an 80m2 stand in Hall 10 (Stand 10E564).
The aim of these technologies is to develop solutions that help increase productivity and profitability, quality assurance of products, systems and built assets, occupational and structural safety, as well as minimising construction waste, and to do so, it collaborates with actors throughout the construction value chain.
More specifically, it will present the following solutions: an industrialised modular balcony for refurbishment and new construction, an industrialised modular façade with bio-based materials, a solution for the automation of construction production processes, an aerial robot for contact tasks, a sensor and AI system for the recovery of materials, as well as assessment and certification services.
Iñigo Vegas, Director of Next Construction at TECNALIA, pointed out that "at a time when Europe needs to strengthen and increase its industrial GDP, the construction sector is called upon to induce new manufacturing establishments in the short-medium term, as well as to demand innovative machinery and robotised systems in the medium-long term. At REBUILD 25, TECNALIA would like to share a selected sample of advanced solutions that will determine the future of construction in terms of higher productivity, quality assurance, decarbonisation and safety".
Solutions showcased by TECNALIA at REBUILD 2025
First of all, TECNALIA will be showcasing an industrialised modular balcony for refurbishment and new construction, developed in conjunction with Zabalandi, Talleres Gorlan, Etxesoft, Domusa and IDK, within the framework of the BALIN project, supported by the Basque Government's Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, through the HAZITEK programme and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This is a new development that offers the new feature of installation in houses that have already been built. It also becomes an active element of the building with the incorporation of renewable electric power generation systems, ventilation systems and a smart energy manager.
Secondly, TECNALIA will show a new concept of industrialised modular façade with bio-based materials that is manufactured off-site, which guarantees greater efficiency and precision, as well as safe, simple and fast on-site assembly. The system is designed to be dissembled, either for maintenance or for further use in closed cycles of circular materials.
Thirdly, the solution for the automation of production processes in construction is intended to determine and generate dimensional details of robotically manufactured construction processes and/or products. The objective is to offer an automation and digitalisation solution for the entire value chain of a 3D industrialised building system, through the development of industrial processes using machine vision and AI. Therefore, the solution increases process quality and the level of automation for error monitoring, while improving production capacity and profitability.
Fourthly, the research and technological development centre will be exhibiting an aerial robot for work at heights or in hard-to-reach places and on sloped surfaces. It is an innovative system, capable of moving and steering itself in any direction, and on which sensors, heads, tools and robotic arms can be mounted to tackle different tasks.
Fifthly, those attending the event will be able to learn about Trazia, an advanced multi-signal sensor system with AI for the recovery of materials which is capable of tracing and predicting multiple characteristics of material resources, such as their morphology, colour, size or chemical composition in order to increase the traceability of information in the sector.
TECNALIA will also present its assessment, testing and certification services, which are key to promoting innovation in the sector in areas like fire safety, safety in use and accessibility, in-service behaviour and durability of materials, among other requirements to be met within the framework of the Technical Building Code, CTE. As TECNALIA acts as a Technical Assessment Body (TAB) under the Construction Products Regulation, it is able to issue European Technical Assessments (ETA) for innovative products, including new industrialised system designs.
