See II.2.4

Recovery Plan - Supply, installation and commissioning of a carbonation test chamber.

The contract is for the supply of a test chamber to study the carbonation of concrete samples.

This chamber will be built from a container (or equivalent) subdivided into two compartments: a "test" compartment and a "technical" compartment.

In the first compartment, temperature, humidity and CO2 content will be monitored to measure and monitor CO2 capture by concrete under accelerated carbonation conditions. Samples of any size can be tested, from concrete aggregate to beams weighing several hundred kilos.

In the second compartment of the chamber will be grouped the equipment and instruments for controlling the parameters studied (temperature, humidity and CO2 content, which can reach 20% by volume).

This market is subsidized by the national recovery and resilience plan as part of the "environment and energy transition platform" project.

Ecological clauses, called "DNSH clauses" (Do Not Significant Harm) are planned.

WHAT IS DNSH?

For the purposes of the Facility Regulation, the DNSH principle should be interpreted within the meaning of Article 17 of the Taxonomy Regulation. That article defines what constitutes "significant harm" to the six environmental objectives covered by the Regulation:

1. an activity is considered to cause significant harm to climate change mitigation when it generates significant greenhouse gas emissions;

2. an activity shall be considered to cause significant damage to adaptation to climate change when it leads to an increase in the negative impacts of the current climate and its expected evolution on itself or on people, nature or property;

3. an activity shall be considered to cause significant harm to the sustainable use and protection of aquatic and marine resources where it adversely affects the good status or ecological potential of water bodies, including surface water and groundwater, or the good environmental status of marine waters;

4. An activity shall be considered to cause significant harm to the circular economy (including waste prevention and recycling) where it is characterised by significant inefficiency in the use of materials or in the direct or indirect use of natural resources, where it leads to a significant increase in the generation, incineration or disposal of waste, with the exception of the incineration of non-recyclable hazardous waste or where the long-term disposal of the waste may have significant long-term adverse effects on the environment;

5. an activity shall be considered to cause significant harm to the prevention and reduction of pollution when it results in a significant increase in emissions of pollutants into air, water or land;

6. An activity shall be considered to cause significant harm to the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems where it is significantly detrimental to the good status and resilience of ecosystems or detrimental to the conservation status of habitats and species, including those of Union interest.

Consequently, all tenderers are required to complete the declaration on honour in Annex E and to detail the measures they intend to implement to do so.

Delivery locations: Delivery of the test chamber on existing concrete slab: GARAGE DU B52/10, Campus du Sart Tilman - Quartier POLYTECH 1, allée de la Découverte 15, 4000 Liège