Accelerating circularity from a sufficiency perspective
The built environment is one of the sectors with the highest circularity potential, but current circular strategies focus mainly on the applicable R-strategies (e.g. recycling and reuse). This workshop will apply sufficiency on different circular solutions in the construction industry, aiming at the lesser applied R-strategies (e.g. refuse and reduce). Centred around case studies from the Circular Building Coalition and the Drastic project, participants will be actively involved in one of the cases in a World Café setting to come to systemic innovations.
Target audience (max. 50 participants*): construction and real estate companies, city governments and building residents
*Please note that workshops are not livestreamed, and they are only available for those in-person participants who have registered to take part in them.
Programme
Welcome
Carolina Montano Owen
Circularity Accelerator Programme Coordinator
World Green Building Council (WorldGBC)
Carolina Montano Owen promotes strategies to accelerate the transition to a sustainable built environment, by leading initiatives such as the Circular Buildings Coalition and the WorldGBC global circularity accelerator programme. She has a background in civil engineering and a doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Carolina has supported the development of the technical screening criteria for the EU’s green taxonomy as a member of the WorldGBC team for the EU Platform on sustainable finance, as well as decarbonisation road maps as part of the #BuildingLife project.
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Michiel Ritzen
Research Leader Circularity in the Built Environment
VITO
Michiel Ritzen received his master’s in architecture, specialising in technology in sustainable design, from Delft University of Technology in 2004. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree on the environmental impact assessment of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2017. Michiel is research activity leader and senior expert for circularity in the built environment in the unit Water and Energy Transition at the Flemish research organisation VITO. He is coordinator and expert in national and international research projects in energy and circularity transitions in the built environment.
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Demonstrations of solutions: video pitches
Introduction and scope of the roundtable discussions
Michiel Ritzen
Research Leader Circularity in the Built Environment
VITO
Michiel Ritzen received his master’s in architecture, specialising in technology in sustainable design, from Delft University of Technology in 2004. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree on the environmental impact assessment of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2017. Michiel is research activity leader and senior expert for circularity in the built environment in the unit Water and Energy Transition at the Flemish research organisation VITO. He is coordinator and expert in national and international research projects in energy and circularity transitions in the built environment.
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Joana Gonçalves
Researcher
VITO
Joana dos Santos Gonçalves is a researcher on circularity in the built environment at VITO in Belgium. She graduated as an architect from the School of Architecture of University of Minho, Portugal in 2014 and was awarded the Iberian Prize on Traditional Architecture Research in 2014 for her research. In 2016 Joana started her PhD on “Beyond good intentions: building passport for sustainable conservation”. Between 2019 and 2021 she was a guest PhD in the UNESCO chair on heritage and the reshaping of urban conservation for sustainability at TU Delft, the Netherlands. Between 2020 and 2022, she was a lecturer on heritage and sustainability at TU Delft, guiding master graduation projects on topics such as social engagement or zero waste approaches to heritage conservation.
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Roundtable 1: What indicators are applicable to indicate sufficiency?
Roundtable 2: How sufficient are these circular solutions?
