ROTHO BLAAS SRL

Their core work

ROTHO BLAAS SRL is an Italian industrial manufacturer of connection technology, structural fasteners, and building envelope systems for timber and wood-frame construction, headquartered in South Tyrol. Their core business is producing hardware that holds multi-storey wood buildings together — connectors, anchors, and structural fixings — along with advanced envelope products that control a building's energy and environmental performance. In H2020, they contributed as an industrial partner bringing real manufactured products and market channels into research consortia, particularly around sustainable wood construction and nearly zero-energy building standards. They sit at the intersection of traditional construction manufacturing and the push toward low-carbon, renewable building systems.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first project (Build-in-Wood, 2019) was grounded in the upstream wood value chain — documenting materials, engaging the construction sector, and proving that renewable resources can replace concrete in multi-storey buildings. By the time MEZeroE started in 2021, the focus had shifted downstream toward product performance: measuring envelope systems, verifying energy contributions, and connecting buyers and sellers through a virtual marketplace. The shift is from "wood is a viable building material" to "here is how you measure and sell certified wood-based building products at scale."

ROTHO BLAAS is moving toward performance-verified, market-ready building envelope products integrated into digital procurement platforms — positioning themselves as a certified supplier in the emerging nearly zero-energy building supply chain.

How they like to work

ROTHO BLAAS participates exclusively as a consortium partner — they have never led an H2020 project. With 49 unique partners across just 2 projects, they consistently join large, multi-country consortia where their role is to contribute industrial manufacturing expertise and bring products closer to market. This pattern suggests they seek research collaborations to validate and develop their product lines rather than to drive research agendas.

Across two projects, ROTHO BLAAS has built connections with 49 unique partners in 16 countries — an unusually wide network for a company with only two funded projects. This reflects their membership in large Innovation Action consortia that span the full European construction supply chain.

What sets them apart

ROTHO BLAAS is one of the few industrial manufacturers in H2020 construction research who brings actual products — not prototypes or models — to the consortium table, giving research projects a direct route to commercial application in the timber construction market. Their South Tyrol base places them in Europe's most active timber construction region, with strong ties to both Italian and German-speaking markets where multi-storey wood buildings are advancing fastest. For a consortium needing an industrial partner who can also distribute or validate building products at scale, they offer rare commercial credibility.

Highlights from their portfolio

• MEZeroE
  Their largest-funded project (€326,550), running to 2026, combines physical measurement infrastructure with a virtual marketplace — the most forward-looking and commercially ambitious work in their portfolio.
• Build-in-Wood
  A long-running flagship (2019–2024) addressing the full wood construction value chain from renewable resources to low-carbon multi-storey buildings, with strong GHG reduction framing that resonates with current EU Green Deal priorities.