Topic: Construction
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Connecting Technology and Space for a Circular Economy
Published by How can industrial areas become drivers of a circular and resilient city?The new Guide Book “Tech & Spaces for Circular Economy” explores this question by linking technological innovation with spatial transformation and shows how collaboration between sectors can turn urban industrial sites into future-proof ecosystems. Developed by Circular Berlin and Creative Climate Cities in collaboration with WISTA Management GmbH, the…
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Fit für Circular Economy: integrating circularity into schools’ curricula
Funders Berlin Senat Department for Economy, Energy and Businesses (SenWeb) Partners Fachhochschule Potsdam and IHK Berlin Dates June 2024 – May 2026 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder Awareness and understanding of the principles of the Circular Economy are the essential for the development of a sustainable and resilient economy. Integrating Circular Economy theories…
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Tech and Spaces: enabling circularity with photonics and material science
Funders Berlin Senatsverwaltung Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe (SenWeb) Partners Creative Climate Cities, WISTA Dates April 2024 – December 2025 Get in touch Stefan Aufrichter Project Management Through this project, we will explore the potential of Deep Tech applications and co-creation spaces for accelerating and implementing a circular economy in various industries in Berlin and beyond.…
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Driving Sustainable Construction: Exploring DGNB, LEVEL(s), and DIN’s Impact on Circular Construction.
by Alethya Cuberos and Daniela Raffo Organizations like DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen), LEVEL(s), and DIN-Normenausschuss Bauwesen (NABau) (Standards Committee for Building and Civil Engineering), play significant roles in promoting sustainability, setting standards in the construction industry, and also shaping and promoting responsible approaches within the construction and building sectors. While the three entities…
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Study: Business models for circular construction and renovation
Funders Commissioned by the German Energy Agency (Deutsche Energie-Agentur, dena) Partners Circular Berlin, Circular Structural Design and Concular GmbH. Dates July 2023 – November 2023 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder This study addresses the potential of the Circular Economy (CE). It provides an overview of the latest trends and concrete examples of construction…
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AI in Circular Construction: current reality or a concept for the future?
by Alethya Cuberos Technologies for the construction sector to transition to the circular economy Along with the implementation of the circular economy strategies, such as extending building lifespans, redesigning with circularity in mind, reusing components, and recycling materials. We should also keep in mind the development of the new technologies that help to scale the…
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White paper: Interactive design tool for multidisciplinary planning with re-use building components
Written by The construction industry faces the enormous challenge of significantly reducing negative environmental impacts on climate and resource consumption and, in addition to technical feasibility, also developing incentives for this necessary change. The increasing scarcity of resources calls for new and simple solutions to remove used resources from buildings with low CO2 emissions and…
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BuildSkills Academy for Transitional Skills in the Built Environment
Funders Co-funded by the European Union, ERASMUS+ Programme under Grant Agreement number: 101104419 Partners 17 partners from 10 European countries Dates June 2023 – May 2027 Get in touch Daniela Raffo Senior project manager The BuildSkills Academy aims to upgrade knowledge and skills related to the green and digital transitions, focusing on the construction sector.…
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3D Printing: is it a new technological path for the circular solutions in construction?
by Tabitha Ashley Opondo Technologies for the construction sector to transition to the circular economy The construction industry has long been known for its unsustainable practices, with buildings often being designed and constructed with little regard for their environmental impact. However, as concerns about climate change and resource depletion continue to grow, there is a…
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The vision of the Hause of Transformation in Berlin
Funders Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW) Partners Sustainable Design Center e.V., Dost Architektur, Circular Structural Design, Concular Dates June 2021 – May 2022 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The “House of Transformation” is to be built on the campus of the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW). Together we have…
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The circular approaches to work with aluminium composite panels.
On 07-08.10, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the second seminar and the workshop on the topic: Aluminium Dibond. An aluminium Dibond is a sandwich panel. It is known as a brand for a rigid composite material that belongs to the manufacturer 3A Composites, Singen. In our…
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Why should we care about Printing Blankets?
On 03-04.06, as part of the Haus der Materialisierung project, Material Mafia, together with Circular Berlin and TU Berlin, organised the first seminar and the workshop on the topic of Printing Blankets You would ask: Printing Blankets? The rubber printing blanket is used in the process of offset printing. It is stretched around a printing…
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Circular Material Systems: Documenting circular construction practices
Funders In collaboration with TU Berlin and many other contributors Partners Georg Hubmann, Vera van Maaren and Circular Berlin Dates March 2021 – May 2024 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder Julius Schäufele Circular construction consultant With this project, we want to advance the awareness of construction practitioners about buildings with circular principles and…
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CE strategies in construction projects: learnings from new construction and building redesigns
Shifting from business as usual towards circular economy principles in the construction sector is a long path. To do this: However, most importantly, the mindset of the construction sector’s actors has to shift, to stand behind that change. Over this year, we ran online workshops with a diverse group of stakeholders, to create new ways…
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The steps to realise circularity in construction projects
In 2020 Circular Berlin is part of the project City Loops, with such partners as Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom). The core of the project is to bring circular economy thinking for the practitioners using advanced circular economy tools such as circularity compass, structural waste…
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Report: Circular economy in Berlin’s construction
Written by Last year Circular Berlin took part in a big project run together with EIT Climate-KIC, building a circular construction ecosystem in Berlin. Of course building the ecosystem is not a one year task, it is a long way to go, but we are glad to keep the ball rolling. During 2019 Circular Berlin…
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Making secondary materials usage a common practice (Haus der Materialisierung)
Funders Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) Partners Technische Universität Berlin, ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG, Material Mafia Dates December 2019 – December 2022 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Haus der Materialisierung is Berlin’s pioneering centre for secondary materials. It aims to make their usage common practice in the city, by bringing together secondary material collectors…
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Learning from spaces or how spaces can underpin circular construction
Together with the Urban Ideation Lab at B-Part Am Gleisdreieck on August 22, 2019, Circular Berlin discussed the topic of spaces and how the use of space in the building can underpin circular construction. To accelerate the transformation from linear to circular economy in the construction sector, there is an urgency to deploy circular business…
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Study: Berlin’s circular construction ecosystem
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Dates May 2019 – December 2019 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The project Berlin’s Circular Construction Ecosystem aimed to identify leverage points in Berlin’s construction sector, which stakeholders can use to enable a circular economy in the city. The challenge Berlin remains a construction hotspot in Germany, however its booming…
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Workshop results: Circular construction in Berlin
On the 20.11 Circular Berlin together with EIT Climate-KIC hosted a workshop on the topic of Circular Construction. Among others, the objective was to discuss current challenges for this field and what the potentials are to set Berlin Construction on the circular rails. Circular Construction is an approach, which requires a lot of discussion and…
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Building the circular economy agenda for Berlin
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Partners Circular Berlin Dates April-August 2018 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Circular Berlin project started as an exploratory study at the start of 2018, with the idea to establish a coordinated network that connects key stakeholders in order to have more influence on local policies and regulations in the…
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Bauen für Morgen training: understanding construction material loops
Funders EIT Climate-KIC Partners Provadis Hochschule (Germany), Wuppertal Institute (Germany), CleanTech Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (United Kingdom) Dates October 2019 – December 2020 Get in touch Dina Padalkina CEO, Founder The Bauen für Morgen training program is part of the City Loops project aiming to provide professional training programs across Europe to…