Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment / / edited by Luís Bragança, Meri Cvetkovska, Rand Askar, Viorel Ungureanu.

• Superior document: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering,
• HerausgeberIn: Bragança, Luís.; Cvetkovska, Meri.; Askar, Rand.; Ungureanu, Viorel.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer Nature Switzerland :, Imprint: Springer,, 2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed. 2024.
• Language: English
• Series: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 444 p. 135 illus., 90 illus. in color.)

This open access book summarizes the research being pursued as part of the COST Action CA21103 titled "Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment" (Circular B), which aims to define the methodology to develop a common circularity framework for inclusive application and assessment in new and existing buildings to support decision-making for all value chain stakeholders and appraise the implementation level of the European Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP). The Action is increasingly gaining interest worldwide, bringing multidisciplinary young and experienced researchers together to share the latest studies and develop new knowledge. Consisting of 17 chapters corresponding to the conference themes, the book analyses and discusses topics such as Circular Economy (CE) best practices, design strategies for circular buildings, circular materials and products, adaptive reuse of existing buildings, recovery and reuse of salvaged materials and products, case studies of current applications and trends, barriers against CE implementation in buildings, efficient waste and circular resource management, circular lifecycle management and decision making, stakeholders relationships, CE supporting policies and barriers, circular business models, criteria, KPIs and assessment models for circular buildings, CE criteria in sustainability frameworks, digitalization and BIM for enhanced circularity of buildings and building materials, and standardization of CE definitions in buildings.

Table of Contents

Circular Construction Principles: From Theoretical Perspective to Practical Application in Public Procurement -- Procedure for Waste Prevention and Management to Implement Best Practices in the Design and Construction of a Building -- Reuse of Steel Sheet Piles - Best Practice -- Design Strategies and Technical Practices for Reusable Steel-concrete Composite Structural Systems -- How Circular Economy Strategies Can Be Implemented in the Dwelling Renovation Design Phase -- Design for Disassembly and Reuse of Timber in Construction: Identification of Trends and Knowledge Gaps -- A Dynamic-based Methodology for Optimising Insulation Retrofit to Reduce Total Carbon -- Circular Strategies in Lightweight Steel-framed (Lsf) Buildings and the Research Project Tyre4buildins -- The Recycling of Construction Foams: An Overview -- By-product Phosphogypsum Valorisation Possibilities in the Context of Circular Economy of Building Materials -- Identifying Abandoned Industrial Zones in City X and Evaluating the Potential of Extending Their Useful Lifespan by Adaptive Reuse -- The Materials Bank of the City of Porto: Flow of Processes to Recover Tiles in Urban Operations of Historic Buildings -- Focus on Skills for a Circular Built Environment in a New Curriculum Development -- Efficient Recovery of Valuable Resources from Construction and Demolition Waste Towards Circular Economy in Construction Industry – Sustainability Assessment and a Case Study -- Albanian Green Economy Trends -- Pv and Thermal Solar Systems Application in Buildings. A State of Art in the Context of Circular Economy.