SONAE Campus - Porto
Porto (Maia) Living Lab
The vision is to create an energy neutral campus coupled with social innovations and biodiversity
Sonae Campus is located in Maia, a city in Porto district, and everyday welcomes over 3,000 employees over its 32.5ha. Sonae Group aims to inspire change and stakeholders' mobilization by becoming a reference sustainable campus.
The living lab will conduct small-scale experimentation projects with the following scope:
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Boost biodiversity by implementing green walls, houses for birds, beekeeping and a community garden developed by employees with total vegetable production being donated to local charities
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Community engagement and social innovation by opening the campus to experimentations by third-parties on the two relevant topics: Energy & Biodiversity
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Reinforce electric micro-mobility through novel solutions of charging
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Demonstrate retrofit viability through the use of PCMs
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Increase the use of clean energy and grid flexibility while developing the energy community concept
Expected impacts, move forward on our path of:
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Carbon Neutrality
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Create knowledge for the Community
Living Lab Porto Scope Executed:
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Sonae Sierra implemented beekeeping, community garden and production is being donated for local charities increasing the community engagement
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Capwatt in charge of the campus´ grid operation and to provide digital twin data concerning