Circular Economy

This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Maud Lanau, a fellow SBE researcher whose work is shaping the future of sustainable built environments. Maud’s work at the intersection of industrial ecology and circular economy aims to reduce the environmental impact of buildings and infrastructure by focusing on material stocks, flows, and the life cycle of construction materials.

This week, we sat down with Sara Abouebeid and David Sindelar, two of our project assistants in the Sustainable Built Environments research group, to learn more about their work, research experiences, and perspectives on sustainability.

Congratulations to Shuang Wang on successfully defending her Licentiate thesis titled: “Characterizing the construction sector’s potential as secondary plastic provider.” Her research focuses on the circularity of plastics in the construction sector, a critical area for sustainability in the built environment.

Project Title: CREATE — Embedding advanced urban material stock methods within governance processes to enable circular economy and cities resilience Table of Contents Home/General About Create Work Package Structure Timeline Funding program Urban LivingLabs About LivingLabs Key components: Steps of LivingLabs Case Studies Digital tool wireframing News Project results/ Deliverables Overarching Goals Deliverables -- Home/General About Create CREATE project aims at supporting urban transformation processes towards the circular economy by making an inventory of the existing material stocks within urban construction, developing reliable scenarios for future expected material flows, and providing governance arrangements on how to approach the circular economy transition.