Regenerative, recyclable, regional and resilient components in building construction will become more important in the future due to the upcoming measures to achieve climate goals. Various climate programmes and strategies at regional, national and EU level provide for this.

Currently, there are obstacles in the use of building materials such as wood fibre materials, hemp, straw, loam, lime, sheep's wool, etc. among building owners, building authorities, planners and processors. The reasons for this are a lack of information, a lack of specialist knowledge about connections, details and possible combinations, as well as uncertainties about durability and costs.

In the innovation network "natuREbuilt", a group of companies and institutions is working on removing these obstacles and thus establishing the use of ecological construction methods in multi-storey new buildings and in renovation. In this consortium, building products are examined in an interdisciplinary manner, investigated in terms of building physics, and resilient constructions are then developed and digitalised in a BIM-compatible manner. A regional innovation hub for ecological construction is to be developed and established along the economic value chain in Lower Austria, Vienna and Burgenland.