Wednesday Sep 17

Morning, 9:00-11:10

Room: Duetto 1
Session: Urban mining 2

Hosts: Erik Stenberg & José Hernández Vargas
  • Mario Kolkwitz: The city of flows: Mechanisms behind urban building stock development and how construction and demolition manifest in morphological changes and material flows
  • Adriana Salles: Exploring the Role of City Information Modeling in Material Stock and Flow Analysis: A Literature Review
  • Axelle Robert: Advancing Urban Mining by Identifying Circularity Patterns in Deconstruction and Renovation
  • Martha Godina: Urban Forest Material Stock and Flow Analysis
  • Jingxian Ye: Assessing Carbon Payback Time of Replacements and Refurbishments in Zurich’s Residential Buildings (2001–2019) Using Stock-Level CRLCA

Room: Duetto 2
Session: Design 2

Hosts: Patrick Teuffel & Marlene Schulz
  • Patrick Teuffel: Enabling Architectural and Structural Design with Reused Concrete Elements: Insights from the ReCreate Studio
  • Harry Watt: Applying time-value of carbon to adaptable versus optimised structural design decision-making
  • Simon Wijte: Algorithms for design based on a Database of Reused Concrete Elements
  • Benedikt Strahm: Design Method for Generating a Stock of Segments for Reusable Concrete Slabs
  • Patrick Teuffel: Conceptual Framework for an AI-Supported Design Tool: Enabling Re-Use through Data-Driven Recommender Systems
  • Marcel Vullings: Information is key to successful reuse of precast concrete elements

Room: Riffi
Session: Assessment 2

Hosts: Tove Malmqvist & Ahmad Al-Najjar
  • Margarete Olender: Beyond Measuring Resource-Flow – a Holistic Approach for a Framework to Assess Circularity in the Built Environment through all Life Cycle Stages
  • Alexis Monti: Comprehensive circularity: Assessing social performances for the growing application of reuse in construction
  • Markus Meissner: ResourceRevival: Redefining the urban mine to close local loops and move toward resource-neutral districts
  • Tuuli Jylhä: Enhancing Social Value: Circular, Relocatable Classroom as Testbed for Value Chain Actors
  • Yishu Niu: Reducing environmental impact with advancing circularity: conceptual framework for sustainable construction

Keynote lecture, 11:10-12:10

Lionel Devlieger:
On the use of studying history in our aspiration to a more circular building economy

Early afternoon, 13:10-15:20

Room: Duetto 1
Session: Value chains 1

Hosts: Kjartan Gudmundsson & José Hernández Vargas
  • Arlind Dervishaj: Smart Logistics for Reuse: Tracking precast concrete in Circular Construction
  • Aline Vergauwen: An organizational framework to upscale the reuse of construction materials
  • Luyuan Peng: A decision framework for circular management based on enablers and obstacles of construction waste logistics in Hong Kong
  • Ling Min Tan: Analyzing the spatial logistics of construction materials for a circular economy
  • Aline Vergauwen: The transition to a circular construction practice – lessons learned from living labs: collaborate, innovate & create value

Room: Duetto 2
Session: Quality management 2

Hosts: Benjamin Matthews & Aapo Räsänen
  • Mika Keskisalo: Correlating Non-Destructive and Semi-Destructive Test Results with Mechanical Properties of Reclaimed Timber
  • Eline Vandecruys: Non-destructive condition assessment of degraded timber beams in view of their reuse
  • Steven Collins: Application potential of a nature trail design concept using salvaged timber
  • Oskari Aunula: Hazardous substances in reusable building components
  • Gentiel Acar: Reusing Insulation Materials: Dismantling and Performance Assessment of Naturally Aged Thermal Insulation from 1990s Social Housing
  • Lennart Larsson: Securing indoor air quality in circular buildings using an emissions barrier

Room: Riffi
Session: Design 3

Hosts: Jyrki Tarpio & Chloe Kiernicki
  • Marianna Marchesi: Informing Building Concept Design with Circular Economy Principles: State-of-the-Art
  • Stanimira Markova: Toward Active Urban Mining: A Contextual and Systemic Reframing of Circularity Strategies for the Built Environment
  • Barbara Vogt: Scaling Circularity in Architecture: From Digital Tools to Built Realities
  • Valeska Pack: Slashing the Burden: Inductive ethnographic observation followed by deductive surveys, towards an initial proposal for a Stadium focused carbon reduction and circularity design toolkit 
  • Christoph Henschel: Increasing flexibility in building design with used precast concrete elements by combination with virgin structural concrete, bricks, steel and timber

Late afternoon, 15:50-17:40

Room: Duetto 1
Session: Assessment 3

Hosts: Tove Malmqvist & Emmi Salmio
  • Ahmad Al-Najjar: Do Reuse Ambitions Meet Reality? Assessing the Availability and Embodied Carbon Reduction Potential of Reclaimed Precast Concrete Elements in Sweden
  • Joren Mijnendonckx: Applying a multi-cycle life cycle assessment framework to circular office tables and partition walls
  • Tanya Tsui: Circular Bio-based Construction: Guidance for assessing future environmental impacts
  • Marianna Marchesi: Are Bio-based Insulation Systems in Net-zero Carbon Building Renovations Inherently Circular?
  • Wenjuan Lyu: From potential to reality: Advocating for an evidence-based circularity assessment framework

Room: Duetto 2
Session: Decommissioning

Hosts: Agnese Scalbi & Jakob Fischer
  • Jukka Lahdensivu: Evaluating the Deconstruction Process of Precast Concrete Elements Intended for Reuse in Four Pilot Projects
  • Thijs Lambrechts: Disconnecting and reconnecting in case of reuse of precast concrete elements
  • Korbinian Julius Schneider: Salvaging load-bearing steel and reinforced concrete building elements for open-destination reuse – a case study
  • Barbara Lambec: A standardized approach to evaluating the reuse potential of building components
  • Sonja Laasonen: Integrating Demolition Into The Construction Project Lifecycle

Room: Riffi
Session: Business 2

Hosts: Lauri Alkki & Eetu Lehmusvaara
  • Wendy Wuyts: Navigating Ecosystem Formation in the Norwegian Circular Timber Built Environment: The Role of Intermediaries
  • Olli Koskela: Estimating the National Scale Economy of Reusable Building Components Through Simulation
  • Stijn Dauwe: Mobile demonstration unit circular construction
  • Tim de Jonge: Circular management of residential stock: needs, approaches and calculations
  • Riikka Kyrö: Business Model Canvas for Residential Adaptive Reuse