Implementing a Circular Economy into the built environment requires more knowledge and information, especially about mineral material. This dissertation aims to link information about building products regarding circular material flows to the design process of buildings in a coherent information flow model. It reliably delivers guidelines and enables the exchange, documentation and management of a circular design process with the ability to be implemented into digital tools.
By selecting recycled or reused products and designing demountable connections, planners have a substantial impact on the future material flow. The description of essential qualitative and quantitative information requirements during the entire design process and predefined information exchange points are essential for closing material flow circles.
An integral Information Delivery Model can distribute all relevant information about, for example, building products and construction methods to planners and their collaborators.
The model has the potential to document and deliver information, hence guaranteeing a successful work, information and material flow.
This dissertation aims to link information about mineral building products regarding circular material flows to the design process of buildings in a coherent information flow model. The goal is to reliably deliver guidelines and standards for the use of circular mineral building products and to provide a model that enables the exchange, documentation and management of a circular design process with the ability to be implemented into a digital tool. This can decrease the use of natural resources, reduce emissions during production and close material flows. The model developed in this research offers a basis for future implementation into BIM as a holistic and collaborative working method that enables a circular design process.
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‘Information Delivery Model for a circular design process of buildings with mineral building material’
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Linda Hilebrand, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tillmann Klein, TU Delft, Netherlands
Funded: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (German Federal Environmental Foundation)
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