The REGEN team was proud to contribute to this year’s European Construction and sustainable built environment Technology Platform (ECTP) Conference: “Building Europe’s Competitiveness in the Built Environment: from Strategic Vision to Industrial Impact”, held at the Thon Hotel Bristol Stephanie in Brussels.

Our colleagues from LIST, Tecnalia and R2M made a strong mark on the programme, showcasing how REGEN is advancing people-centric, decarbonised and digitally-enabled urban regeneration across Europe.

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Focus on heritage and mobility: Citizen engagement in Laredo

Silvia Urra Uriarte (TECNALIA) contributed to the Build4Life Committee session “Buildings for Life: inclusive, healthy and climate-neutral places for all generations”, presenting REGEN’s work on tackling mobility challenges in the historic old town of Laredo, Spain.

She highlighted the recent adaptation and deployment of our MUST citizen participation tool, featuring dedicated functionalities enabling inhabitants to identify accessible routes in La Puebla Vieja. It aims at empowering local communities to actively shape inclusive, heritage-sensitive mobility solutions.

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Driving Digital Innovation and AI for Sustainable Living

Sylvain Kubicki (LIST) updated ECTP members on the work of the Digital Built Environment Committee, and its position paper currently under review, drawing on REGEN’s rich portfolio of achievements in relation with digitalization and AI. This includes:

• The decarbonised behaviours survey: raising awareness and driving sustainable lifestyle change, as a means to understand the needs and devise digital technologies to engage people.
• The Urban Digital Twin: supporting Urban Building Energy Model (UBEM) development, recently delivered for Beckerich, Luxembourg.
• The latest MUST features: empowering citizens in co-creating building renovation strategies.

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BDTIC 2026: Rethinking Urban digital twins

On May 28th, Calin Boje (LIST) delivered a speech at the Building Digital Twin International Congress (BDTIC) challenging the audience to move beyond data platforms:

“Urban Digital Twins are often reduced to data platforms, but data alone does not make cities intelligent. At the urban scale, a digital twin must function as a dynamic, evaluative system that supports decision-making and transformation over time.”

Framing simulation as a core mechanism for scenario testing, policy evaluation and strategic planning, he illustrated REGEN’s concrete contributions across energy simulation, circularity, mobility and citizen engagement through digital twin interfaces tailored for citizen participation.

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Connecting the dots for a regenerative future

Beyond presentations, the two collocated conferences were a great moment for our team to connect with key ongoing European projects and anchor REGEN’s contributions within the broader EU policy landscape, spanning energy, decarbonisation, digital & AI innovation, and people-centric standards.

REGEN is demonstrating that the path to a regenerative built environment is built together, with citizens, data, and innovation at its core.