Circularity

The development of buildings is an immensely carbon- and resource-intensive process and circular economy strategies are key to decrease the environmental impacts of the construction industry. In developed economies, extensive volumes of construction materials are stocked in existing buildings and ought to be reclaimed.

Divia Jimenez Encarnacion defended her licentiate thesis last week. Her thesis generated knowledge on the consumption and sharing of household goods to support the governance of a sustainable sharing economy (SE) in the city of Gothenburg.

Three Sustainable Building research group PhD students attended the Advances in LCA course which was held in collaboration between Chalmers and SLU in Uppsala, discussing the cutting edge research and debates in the field of life cycle assessment.

For the eighth time, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has appointed the Research Leader of the Future, FFL-8. Alexander Hollberg, Assistant Professor in the research group, is one of the 16 selected researchers that receive a grant of 15 million SEK each over a five-year period.