The BAMB (Buildings As Material Banks) project started in September 2015 and ran for 3.5 years as an innovation action within the EU-funded Horizon 2020 programme. It involved partners from six EU countries and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Today, building materials often end up as waste when no longer needed, wasting energy and raw materials, increasing environmental costs and enhancing risks of resource scarcity. It takes huge amounts of energy to produce building materials and products, energy embodied in the building.

BAMB enabled a systemic shift where dynamically and flexibly designed buildings can be incorporated into a circular economy. Through design and circular value chains, materials in buildings sustain their value – in a sector producing less waste and using less virgin resources.

The project developed tools that enable the shift: Materials Passports, Reversible Building Design Tools and Circular Building Assessment. 

The project came up with a list of guiding principles for circular and reversible building.