This keynote contribution presents research conducted in the ReCreate project and at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It presents the findings of journal and conference papers focused on the reuse of precast concrete for a Circular Economy.

The first conference paper focused on exploring the use of tracking and tracing tags for the reuse of precast concrete elements. The second publication presented reuse guidelines for modeling and sharing Building Information Models (BIM) based on the Level of Information Need framework (based on EN 17412-1:2020, now ISO 7817-1:2024).

The first journal paper is a review of the literature and of digital tools for supporting a Circular Economy in the built environment. The second publication presents a digital workflow for assessing the reuse potential of precast concrete from existing buildings, estimating the remaining service life by carbonation depth, CO₂ uptake in concrete via natural carbonation, and the embodied carbon savings from reusing concrete.