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View article: Design for Disassembly (DfD) applications in the United States: gaps and drivers towards a circular industrialized construction economy
Design for Disassembly (DfD) applications in the United States: gaps and drivers towards a circular industrialized construction economy Open
Growing awareness of the construction industry’s substantial environmental impacts has driven increasing interest in circular and sustainable building practices. This paper presents a literature and industry scoping review of the U.S. cons…
View article: Incremental Urbanism and the Circular City: Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Permits, Land Use, and Heritage Regulations
Incremental Urbanism and the Circular City: Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Permits, Land Use, and Heritage Regulations Open
The construction industry is a major contributor to global resource consumption and waste. This sector extracts over two billion tons of raw materials each year and contributes over 30% of all solid waste generated annually through constru…
View article: Engineered wood products for circular construction: a multi-factor evaluation of lamination methods
Engineered wood products for circular construction: a multi-factor evaluation of lamination methods Open
Engineered wood products (EWP) constitute a diverse range of structural element types attractive for the current construction industry. However, the use of permanent adhesive resins limits their ability to perform within a circular economy…
View article: Structural reclaimed wood – reuse, re-reuse, and repurposing
Structural reclaimed wood – reuse, re-reuse, and repurposing Open
View article: A standardized method to assess the reuse potential of building components
A standardized method to assess the reuse potential of building components Open
View article: MycoPly: Laminated, natural-fiber-reinforced mycelium-based composite panels for architectural applications
MycoPly: Laminated, natural-fiber-reinforced mycelium-based composite panels for architectural applications Open
View article: Industry and Literature Review of Urban Mining Applications in the United States: Gaps and Drivers for Implementation Towards a Circular Industrialized Construction Economy
Industry and Literature Review of Urban Mining Applications in the United States: Gaps and Drivers for Implementation Towards a Circular Industrialized Construction Economy Open
Due to an increased awareness among stakeholders of the construction industry’s detrimental environmental impacts, demand for circular and sustainable practices has increased significantly. The objective of this literature and industry sco…
View article: Towards sustainable construction waste management: Study on a disassemblable brick partition wall for the architecture, construction, and engineering industry
Towards sustainable construction waste management: Study on a disassemblable brick partition wall for the architecture, construction, and engineering industry Open
This study proposes an approach to combat construction waste in the architecture, construction, and engineering (ACE) industry by developing a disassemblable brick partition wall. Brick reuse is severely restricted by the presence of morta…
View article: Enabling Design for Circularity with Computational Tools
Enabling Design for Circularity with Computational Tools Open
Circular construction is a design task that requires new datasets and computational tools for matching supply and demand within an urban circular system. Material passports (MPs) contain detailed inventories of materials and products, as w…
View article: Quantification and specification of agricultural by-products as local resources for mycelium-bound composites
Quantification and specification of agricultural by-products as local resources for mycelium-bound composites Open
The research focuses on Upstate New York and quantifies the available agricultural wastes and by-products to identify their application as substrates for mycelium-bound composites (hereinafter MBC) functioning as nutrient, aggregate, and r…
View article: Carbon, economics, and labor: a case study of deconstruction’s relative costs and benefits compared to demolition
Carbon, economics, and labor: a case study of deconstruction’s relative costs and benefits compared to demolition Open
The authors formed a collaborative working group with the “specific aim to investigate the circular potentials of the local built environment by researching and proposing methods for material reuse and recycling, reversible construction, r…
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View article: ScanR: A composite building scanning and survey method for the evaluation of materials and reuse potentials prior to demolition and deconstruction
ScanR: A composite building scanning and survey method for the evaluation of materials and reuse potentials prior to demolition and deconstruction Open
This paper introduces ScanR (Scan for Reuse), a composite method pairing quantitative and qualitative salvage and deconstruction surveying (S&D survey) with LiDAR and photogrammetry scanning in an effort to empower local municipalities and…
View article: A comparative analysis of quantification and validation methods for prospecting the anthropogenic mine as material reserve for circular construction
A comparative analysis of quantification and validation methods for prospecting the anthropogenic mine as material reserve for circular construction Open
Globally, buildings account for at least 39% of CO 2 emissions and more than 50% of resource extraction and solid waste production. Therefore, any transition to carbon neutral buildings must be paired with new resource sensibilities and a …
View article: Building on Material: Towards Circular Construction in the First Year Design Studio
Building on Material: Towards Circular Construction in the First Year Design Studio Open
The construction industry requires a complete paradigm shift in the way we design, build, and manage our built environment: a shift from linear resource consumption to circular material usage. This paper describes the integration of the th…
View article: ON PAPER // Reciprocity Between Architecture and Environment
ON PAPER // Reciprocity Between Architecture and Environment Open
This paper outlines and discusses a number of pedagogical strategies developed for a recent First Year Introductory Design Studio at Cornell University’s Department of Architecture. The global climate and resource crises are calling for pa…
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View article: Towards Urban Mining—Estimating the Potential Environmental Benefits by Applying an Alternative Construction Practice. A Case Study from Switzerland
Towards Urban Mining—Estimating the Potential Environmental Benefits by Applying an Alternative Construction Practice. A Case Study from Switzerland Open
Modern cities emerged as the main accumulator for primary and waste materials. Recovery of both types from buildings after demolition/disassembly creates a secondary material stream that could relieve pressure from primary resources. Urban…
View article: RhinoCircular: Development and Testing of a Circularity Indicator Tool for Application in Early Design Phases and Architectural Education
RhinoCircular: Development and Testing of a Circularity Indicator Tool for Application in Early Design Phases and Architectural Education Open
RhinoCircular is a CAD plugin developed within the Circular Construction Lab (CCL) at Cornell University that assesses a building design’s environmental impact in respect to its embodied carbon values and circularity: the degree to which d…
View article: Pioneering Construction Materials through Prototypological Research
Pioneering Construction Materials through Prototypological Research Open
The article at hand follows the understanding that future cities cannot be built the same way as existing ones, inducing a radical paradigm shift in how we produce and use materials for the construction of our habitat in the 21st century. …
View article: Prototypology for a circular building industry: the potential of re-used and recycled building materials
Prototypology for a circular building industry: the potential of re-used and recycled building materials Open
The growing scarcity of resources calls for a paradigm shift from linear material consumption to circular economy – especially in the construction industry. This shift involves a complete rethinking of design principles, materials, constru…
View article: Environmental assessment of the Urban Mining and Recycling (UMAR) unit by applying the LCA framework
Environmental assessment of the Urban Mining and Recycling (UMAR) unit by applying the LCA framework Open
In 2016, Empa inaugurated NEST ("Next Evolution in Sustainable Building Technologies"), a new type of building that expedites the innovation process by providing a platform where new developments in the built environment can be tested, ver…
View article: Resource-respectful construction – the case of the Urban Mining and Recycling unit (UMAR)
Resource-respectful construction – the case of the Urban Mining and Recycling unit (UMAR) Open
The growing elimination of resources calls for a paradigm shift from linear material consumption to circular economy - especially in the construction industry. The residential and research unit Urban Mining and Recycling (UMAR) in the modu…
View article: Urban Mining: Visualizing the Availability of Construction Materials for Re-use in Future Cities
Urban Mining: Visualizing the Availability of Construction Materials for Re-use in Future Cities Open
This paper presents a method and case study to visualize the urban stock of materials and its availability for use in building future cities. Re-using material from existing buildings for new buildings can be seen as a source for construct…
View article: Design, Cultivation and Application of Load-Bearing Mycelium Components: The MycoTree at the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Design, Cultivation and Application of Load-Bearing Mycelium Components: The MycoTree at the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Open
MycoTree is a spatial branching structure made out of load-bearing mycelium components.Its geometry was designed using 3D graphic statics, utilising compression-only form to enable the weak material to perform structurally.Using only mycel…
View article: Design, Cultivation and Application of Load-Bearing Mycelium Components
Design, Cultivation and Application of Load-Bearing Mycelium Components Open