A Community Land Trust holds land on behalf of a community rather than trading it on the open market, shifting area development from rapid asset value towards lasting neighbourhood value.
Community ownership removes land from short-term pressure Read More »
This insight presents emissions reduction and carbon sequestration as connected parts of the same picture.
High-grade processing of bitumen is not yet feasible, practically or in cost terms, because of the purification technology required.
Bitumen not yet feasible for high-grade processing Read More »
Open calculation models for wood, insulation, gypsum and polluting fractions support circular reuse of construction and demolition residues.
Open calculation models for construction and demolition residues Read More »
Urban mining recovers materials from existing buildings and appliances and keeps value in the chain instead of destroying it.
In circular manufacturing, value shifts from one-off sales to long-term performance, maintenance and component retention.
Value shifts from sales to performance and maintenance Read More »
The open database organises fifteen construction and demolition flows across nine chain steps and makes hidden material value visible.
Critical materials such as neodymium, palladium, tin and tungsten recur across several manufacturing product families.
Critical materials recur across multiple products Read More »
From Tree to Beam and from Beam to Beam translate the circular timber model into building practice. In the demolition chain, 1,200 beams and 7 kilometres of purlins were put back into use.
Two pilot chains bring circular timber into building practice Read More »
The model examines three future perspectives for a circular raw materials cluster, increasing in sustainability ambition.
