Is Circular Construction the answer to concrete’s carbon footprint?
2025 (English)Other, Exhibition catalogue (Other academic) [Artistic work]
Resource type
Mixed material
Physical description [en]
The poster was printed on A0-size paper. It features our research progress and our published articles in 2023 and 2024 in journals and conferences. The poster provides QR codes with links to papers, the ReCreate project, and two related ReCreate blog posts.
Abstract [en]
Buildings significantly contribute to climate change. Reusing structural components from buildings, particularly concrete—the most widely used construction material—offers a promising pathway within a Circular Economy to reduce this impact. However, demonstrating the feasibility of this approach and investigating supportive methods and tools is essential. Therefore, our research focuses on the reuse of precast concrete, aiming to reduce its carbon footprint and advance sustainable construction practices.
Place, publisher, year, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2025. , p. 1
Series
The Future of Sustainability Research
Keywords [en]
concrete, carbonation, CO2 uptake, climate change, carbon footprint, embodied carbon, sustainability, GHG emissions, durability, reuse, design, buildings, LCA, digital workflows, reverse logistics, bibliometric analysis, VOSviewer, circular construction, circular economy
National Category
Architectural Engineering Building Technologies Construction Management Construction Management
Research subject
Architecture, Architectural Technology; Civil and Architectural Engineering; Civil and Architectural Engineering, Building Materials; Civil and Architectural Engineering, Building Technology; Civil and Architectural Engineering, Concrete Structures
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-359369OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-359369DiVA, id: diva2:1933057
Projects
ReCreate project
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 958200
Note
QC 20250131
2025-01-302025-01-302025-02-14Bibliographically approved