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Creating building passports for circular, low-carbon, and healthy urban development

Project objective

The project intends to develop a 'building passport' with details of materials used, component classification and building lifetime. The objective is to support the circular economy approach in building design, and to thus contribute to a sustainable and competitive construction industry in Denmark. It also aims to help build knowledge of circular, low-carbon and healthy urban development, putting SDU on the map as a leading institution for sustainability research in Denmark and Europe.

The project is relevant for all links of the value chain within the construction industry. Everything from waste processing companies, architect practices, urban planners and authorities, to legislators within refuse collection policy. The building passport will create a data platform designed to ensure the best possible coordination between everyone involved, from urban planning to the construction process, and finally to when the materials can be recycled.

Project results

This project will deliver an open data platform from which any stakeholder in the construction industry's value chain can obtain knowledge on solutions able to contribute to a sustainable and competitive industry, enhancing data harmonisation and system understanding to develop circular, low-carbon and healthy urban environments.

 

The platform is also expected to benefit authorities and legislators when developing strategies and for making decision within the field. 


Contact

Work package leader: Gang Liu, Associate Professor, SDU Life Cycle Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology

 

Partners

Henrik Wenzel, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology
Mikkel K. Kragh, Professor, Department of Technology and Innovation
Zhi Cao, Post.doc, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology

Last Updated 28.09.2018