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Title: Outcomes of a Student Research Project on Circular Building Systems – Focus on the Educational Aspect
Authors: JANSSENS, Bart 
KNAPEN, Elke 
WINKELS, Peggy 
VERBEECK, Griet 
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Source: Transition Towards a Net Zero Carbon Built Environment, 323 (Art N° 012138).
Series/Report: IOP Conference Series-Earth and Environmental Science
Series/Report no.: 323
Abstract: The growing need to shift from a linear to a circular economy has inspired producers of building materials and systems to innovate their products to match the requirements of a future circular economy. Others have been developing modular systems in the past to simplify the building process and are now reconsidering these products for their potential in a circular economy. However, at this early stage on the road towards a circular economy, claims of circularity are often made too easily and many producers as well as architects and builders are still struggling with the practice of circular building. In this context and within an assignment for master students in architecture, three cavity walls, each 9m² and composed with a different system for the inner and the outer wall, have been constructed and disassembled in order to test their potential for circularity. The extent of circularity has been critically analysed with an existing framework of evaluation criteria for design for change: three criteria on interface level (reversibility, simplicity, speed), three on component level (compatibility, durability, manageability) and three on composition level (independence, pace-layering, prefabrication). This analysis was complemented with an environmental assessment of the materials used and with interviews with contractors who have experience with these systems. In a final step, proposals for improvement of the products and systems have been made and tested on a mock-up scale, in order to better fit a possible future circular economy.
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/29044
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012138
ISI #: WOS:000562136800137
Rights: Content from this work may be used under the terms of theCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Category: C1
Type: Proceedings Paper
Validations: ecoom 2021
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