HISER provides solutions for buildings which were constructed ignoring end-of-life. BAMB provides the keys for the creation and refurbishment of flexibly designed buildings that function as banks of valuable materials.
Nowadays, the challenge in demolition and renovation works is dealing with buildings that were constructed ignoring the end-of-life possibility. Currently ever more complex buildings and materials are at this stage and, besides improved approaches for efficient onsite separation of waste streams, advanced recycling technologies are needed for the recovery of valuable raw materials from Construction and Demolition Waste. This is the mission of HISER project.
A better situation is however desirable for the future. BAMB- Buildings As Material Banks- is creating ways to increase the value of building materials, enabling a systemic shift where the building sector goes circular. To do this, the project is developing a series of tools to enable this shift towards a circular economy: Materials Passports and Reversible Building Design – supported by new business models, policy propositions and management and decision-making models. Materials Passports, for instance, will provide the necessary information about materials, products and components for their circular use and the support of reversible building design. Reversible Building Design tools will inform designers and decision makers about the transformation capacity, reuse potential and the impacts of design solutions during the conceptual design phase. During the course of the project these new approaches will be demonstrated and refined with input from 6 pilots.
BAMB project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642384
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