ARAMIS

Their core work

ARAMIS is a French private company based near Bordeaux specializing in industrialised building renovation, with a focus on deep retrofit of building envelopes — the external shell of buildings including walls, windows, and insulation. Their work bridges industrial construction practice and digital tools, contributing real-world industry expertise to large-scale EU research consortia on building energy renovation. In the INFINITE project they brought whole value-chain and life-cycle knowledge to a push for scalable, interconnected retrofitting solutions. In METABUILDING LABS they shifted toward open innovation infrastructure, contributing to a European test bed that gives SMEs a single-entry point for validating new building envelope materials and technologies.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ARAMIS entered H2020 in 2020 focused on the delivery side of deep renovation — how to make building envelope retrofits faster, cheaper, and more industrially scalable, with an emphasis on digital-physical integration and whole value-chain thinking. By 2021 their keyword set shifted sharply toward open innovation infrastructure: digital platforms, harmonised testing frameworks, open-source tools, access testbeds, and brokerage models. This suggests a move from being a practitioner of renovation to helping build the market infrastructure that enables others — especially SMEs — to innovate in this space.

ARAMIS appears to be moving from renovation delivery into enabling roles — building platforms and access points that connect materials innovators, SMEs, and industrial renovation projects across Europe.

How they like to work

ARAMIS participates exclusively as a consortium partner and has never led an H2020 project, indicating they contribute targeted industrial expertise rather than driving research agendas. Both their projects are large Innovation Actions with dozens of partners, which is typical for construction sector consortia that need a broad mix of industry players, technology suppliers, and end-users. Their very low share of EC funding (under EUR 14K per project) in consortia of this scale suggests they play a defined, bounded role — likely as an industry reference partner, user, or dissemination node rather than a primary technical implementer.

Despite only two projects, ARAMIS has connected with 73 unique consortium partners across 16 countries, reflecting the large and internationally diverse consortia typical of EU building renovation Innovation Actions. No geographic concentration is evident beyond their French base.

What sets them apart

ARAMIS occupies a niche at the intersection of industrial renovation practice and open innovation market-building in the European construction sector — a combination rare among purely research-oriented organisations. Their presence in both a deep retrofit delivery project (INFINITE) and an SME-oriented open innovation test bed (METABUILDING LABS) suggests they can speak the language of both industry practitioners and innovation platform builders. For a consortium needing a credible French industrial voice in building envelope renovation, ARAMIS offers direct market and delivery experience rather than academic perspective.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INFINITE
  The flagship project by funding (EUR 13,588) and scope — a 2020–2026 Innovation Action targeting industrialised, all-in-one building envelope retrofitting at scale, with strong digital-physical integration.
• METABUILDING LABS
  Signals a strategic shift toward open innovation infrastructure: a European metaclustered test bed giving SMEs a single-entry point for building envelope materials validation, with an explicit brokerage business model.