Overview
Ship and off-shore construction repair and conversion activities in Europe are nowadays conducted by more than 400 companies specialised repair shipyards.
The ECO-REFITEC project will help the repair shipyards and ship operator to perform a refitting of the existing fleet, through of technological development and new tools, helping shipping benchmark their performance, improving the retrofit processes and products, and assessing environmental and life cycle cost impact.
The objective of ECO-REFITEC project is to: improve the competitiveness of the European shipyards and SME's involved in ship building, ship repair and recycling. The project will help repair shipyards and ship operator to perform a refitting of existing fleet, through of technological development and new tools, helping shipping benchmark their performance, improving the retrofit processes and products, and assessing environmental and life cycle cost impact.
Several demonstration cases, together with the exchange of experience and relevant personnel, shall enable the participating institutions to build up relevant capacities. The partners will be able to exchange knowledge with academia and business.
ECO-REFITEC will:
- Develop IT supported tools for retrofit impact evaluation on ship's life cycle economy, energy, environmental performance and safety;
- Develop model tools to look at through life asset management of systems on board through the life cycle of the ship;
- Explore/identify/develop eco-retrofitting technologies and solutions for existing fleet to comply with some current and future IMO standards;
- Share knowledge of repair shipyards best practices and assessing their performance in real-life;
- Integrate environmental strategies and practices into the ship repair industry management systems.
The approach that ECO-REFITEC uses, is based on four stages:
- 1st: Development of Innovative tools based on careful assessment of current available capabilities and in close relation with future retrofits work.
- 2nd: Prototyping and validation of the eco-innovative tools developed within the frame work of ECO-REFITEC.
- 3rd: Identification of skills and technologies required to sustain the eco-innovative tools developed.
- 4th: Exchange information through the supply chain and disseminate knowledge generated.