Maiano Re-Lab comes up with sustainable industrial applications for textile scraps from mass-produced consumer goods. This initiative establishes synergies between industrial sectors, minimising waste and promoting sustainability within the industry.
The Circular Republic Festival 2025 (#CRF25) will focus on Build Your Competitive Advantage.
It will explore how circular practices can reshape industries and create resilience in the face of resource scarcity and climate challenges. There will be keynote addresses, hands-on workshops and tailored recommendations to help integrate circular principles into business strategies.
GIND is an innovative company dedicated to developing sustainable and long-lasting solutions for road surfaces and outdoor spaces. Its BIO DILE™ joint filler replaces traditional, resource-intensive and short-lived materials with more environmentally-friendly alternatives made from recycled, sun-dried stone aggregates and bio-based binders derived from cashew nut shells and natural asphalt. At the end of the filler's lifecycle, it can be fully recycled.
The built environment accounts for at least 40% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. For the Alps, it is key to use local resources effectively while upholding EU rules and promoting the adoption of common standards across the building value chain.
The European Interreg Alpine Space project BAUHALPS is endeavouring to meet these challenges by developing and testing a model that combines New European Bauhaus concepts with sustainability measurements and indicators in an innovative way.
On 12 November, the European portal for energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings BUILD UP is hosting the sixth and last webinar, part of a series of six webinars organised with the COST Action project on ‘Stakeholder Webinar Series – Deconstruction and Demolition Teams & Waste Management Industry’.
Both the RE-PLAN CITY LIFE and LIFE SILENT projects support the use of recycled rubber in asphalt. Experiences and demonstration projects in various countries have confirmed that this solution is technically viable and more sustainable.
This workshop will involve a visit to an asphalt plant which produces and lays rubberised asphalt and a seminar exploring the most recent experiences and innovations in the use of recycled tyre materials in asphalt and road infrastructure.
RE-PLAN CITY LIFE (RElevant Audience Plan Leading to Awareness Network for CIrcular Economy Use of Recycled TYre materials in CITY LIFE) is a LIFE project raising awareness about the use of recycled tyre materials.
They are organising a live workshop with an on-site visit on the use of recycled materials in public works. The workshop will describe the tools put in place by the project to stimulate stronger engagement from public authorities to adopt best practices and green procurement.
The European Commission's DG Environment is organising an online conference exploring Level(s), the EU common language for assessing and measuring the sustainability performance of buildings. It's intended for anyone working in the built environment sector.
The Level(s) foundations conference will enable participants to get informed, get inspired and get started with the EU approach to building sustainably.
The transition to zero emission and energy positive buildings, neighbourhoods and communities is key to unlocking the EU's climate and energy ambitions by transforming both new and existing buildings into drivers of decarbonisation.
This policy recommendation paper puts forward 10 key policy recommendations for national and regional policy makers for overcoming financial barriers for building renovation and transforming existing buildings into zero emission or positive energy neighbourhoods by 2050.
The recommendations are based on experiences and learnings from 8 research and innovations projects in Europe, including 33 demonstration sites around Europe.
This paper reviews digital tools that support the transition to a circular economy in the built environment.
It explores how computer-aided design, building information modeling and computational plugins can assist architects and engineers in creating more sustainable buildings. While Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) remains the main approach for evaluating environmental impacts, the study highlights other methods and tools that can help assess circular design strategies, such as computational methods to design with reused elements and circularity indicators. The paper identifies both the strengths and limitations of these digital tools.
This research is useful to academics and to practitioners designing buildings aligned with circular economy principles.
