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Newsletter 2025
The SINCERE project has entered its second phase, and we have important news to share for researchers and professionals working on sustainable renovation materials, cultural heritage, and net zero buildings, but also the wider public that has a key role to play to find the right balance between ecological footprint, modern usage, heritage protection, and costs.
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SINCERE Conference & Advanced Workshop 2025
The first conference and advanced workshop of the SINCERE project will be a 3-day engagement with top academic institutions and the industry for conservation, architecture and engineering professionals. The programme includes a deep dive into innovative materials for built heritage renovation, hands-on sessions, live demos, collaborative renovation scenarios, real-world applications, and more.
A novel citizen science process started
Join the Talking Buildings world! The SINCERE's public engagement process has been initiated in different places on the ground, and online on Facebook (in greek), youtube, instagram, and tit tok. We are just starting but it has become already clear during the European Heritage Days 2024 that giving a voice to a building is a very rewarding experience both for those that give the voice and those that listen to it.
Conference session at HMC 2025
The call for papers for the upcoming SINCERE special session at the 7th Historic Mortars Conference in Padova is over and we are looking forward to the presentations! The SINCERE project will host also a booth showcasing its innovative materials and technologies, exhibited for the first time as a comprehensive set of tools for the sustainable renovation of built heritage.
Conference session at CHNT 2025
The SINCERE special session at the Cultural Heritage and New Technologies Conference taking place in Vienna, 03-05 November 2025, has concluded the selection process from a large number of high quality submissions. It will include work from our sister projects and thus it will be a great opportunity to share knowledge and build synergies in a research-oriented environment.
The SINCERE innovations will be presented in one of the most important conferences in the area, RILEM (2026 Spring Convention). We will have more news about the participation of SINCERE in this leading conference in our next newsletter! Register to receive it through Email or on Linkedin.
Meet our new pilot site in Malta
The new SINCERE's pilot site is a government-owned structure constructed before World War II and used as a coastal artillery searchlight post. It consists of a stone masonry building with distinctive reinforced concrete features. The scientific studies, under the aegis of Prof. Ruben Paul Borg from the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of Malta, include documentation and the appraisal of the building and the assessment of materials and structure, towards its conservation. Its popular name is "Daughter of the Wind" and our guide Dr. Steve Borg impersonates it very beautifully!
There is intense work at ACCIONA's demo site, the Algete pilot, applying the different SINCERE mortars to three of the experimental mock-ups to be compared with the reference mock-up. Additionally, the radiative cooling paint is applied on one of the mock-up roofs to be compared with the reference paint and also two semi-transparent BIVPs, which complete the SINCERE set of sustainable renovation technologies. Now the performance of the different mock-ups will be monitored over time and we will find out the difference between the lab and the real-world.
Meet Synergy Rhodes and Radio Lyhnari
In the context of the Talking Buildings Game a very successful collaboration has been established with local actors, and more specifically the Synergy Rhodes and Radio Lyhnari, who have launched an open invitation to the citizens of Rhodes with a spot playing every day and a new Facebook group for asking questions and sharing experiences (all in greek) that counts already more than 220 members.
SINCERE has established a close collaboration with the AESTHESIS project led by Niki Trochoutsou at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Politecnico di Milano, to promote multifunctional retrofit solutions for heritage structures. Learn more at www.smart-TRM.eu. Niki has been following the SINCERE encounters in Rhodes and Malta, and she will be presenting her work at the SINCERE conference and advanced workshop in Athens. Come by to meet her!
Check all our communication channels
> On our web site there is an up-date list of publications and calendar.
> All project activities are communicated through LinkedIn!
> Our brand new talkingbuildings.net and social media accounts on instagram and tik tok will be hosting the "Talking Buildings".
> Longer video reports and interviews are available on our YouTube channel