Abstracts Archive

Amsterdam has a housing shortage issue. To solve this problem, Amsterdam Municipality aims to provide 52.500 housing units by 2025. Reaching this number is achieved through newly constructed and repurposed houses converted from other functions. The comparison between these two strategies, at the bui...

Plastic pollution is increasingly recognized as a global challenge, prompting the EU to adopt their plastics strategy as a key element of Europe’s transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular economy. While significant efforts have been made in Europe, including the Netherlands, challenges per...

Sports and healthcare relate to 40% of the national economy of the Netherlands, as an example for many western countries These sectors are both in an linear status in terms of material, water and energy use. In addition, an unbalance exists between the agricultural and nature area's around cities an...

Large organizations have significant impact on cities’ resource footprints. Information and communications technology (IT) plays an important role given its near-ubiquitous use, rapidly increasing demand, and environmental/social impacts from production, use, and disposal (1). This study examines ...

In the journey towards a sustainable future, the transition to a circular economy is pivotal. This session, "Sharing and Repairing in Everyday Urban Life," will explore innovative forms of consumption crucial to this transition. We will focus on social practices and behavioural questions concerning ...

This session consists of two parts. First, we will present a scientific paper on the development of dynamic product passports for IT hardware. Second, we will demonstrate a new tool, Circular Resource Planning for IT (RePlanIT), that successfully implements academic research to empower end users of ...

The decision-making process in adaptive reuse projects is often complex, involving multiple and conflicting criteria, and diverse stakeholders. To deal with such complexity, the alternatives being evaluated by these stakeholders have been inadvertently reduced to two extremes: either a broad scope, ...

Adaptive reuse has gained popularity in recent decades not only for its sustainable perspective but also due to the substantial benefits it offers to the building, the surrounding environment, and the local community, whether on a small or large scale. The decline of the manufacturing industry since...

Geotechnical engineering aims to adapt properties of soils to fit for purpose for a wide range of civil engineering applications such as dikes and embankments for water safety and roads, foundation engineering for buildings and other infra-structure such as quay-walls, bridges and tunnels. In the pa...

In the development of biobased products, the choice of the feedstock, the development of the material and the design of the product are intimately linked. For example, the choice of a certain feedstock can have consequences on the possible end-of-life strategies of the product. For successful biobas...

Within the framework of 'Blueprints for messy cities? Navigating the interplay of order and complexity at the "Reinventing the City" conference, this paper delves into a critical aspect of circular urban development and the assessment of building material reusability. As cities like Amsterdam strive...

Construction is responsible for 38% of CO2 emissions and 40% energy consumption globally. The reuse of construction materials has been receiving increasing attention, including European Union regulations, and cities setting goals to reuse construction materials. This is the case for Amsterdam, which...

Amsterdam has ambitious sustainability policy goals. However, realising the goals remains challenging. Infrastructure projects are a big part of what the city works on and where impact can be made. Therefore, to implement the goals in the infrastructure projects, the Sustainable infrastructure check...

The majority of industrial processes and their supply chains follow a linear model, which is wasteful and inefficient. The transition from Linear to Circular Economy (CE) business models is a growing trend globally, with a focus on recovering and reusing waste materials to decouple economic growth f...

There is growing recognition that Circular economy (CE) programs are not delivering in terms of social and ecological justice. In response, degrowth scholars have drawn attention to community based practices of circularity built on values of sufficiency, democracy, care, and solidarity. This has res...

By 2050, the European Union aims to be fully circular. The construction industry is one of the most polluting industries. One of the strategies to reduce the amount of primary materials is by reusing materials. In public space this trickles down to reusing by urban mining. The Municipality of Amster...

As circular economy policies are employed to tackle unsustainable built environment patterns related to carbon emissions and inefficient use of resources, scholars warn about the inadequacy of such policies to support sustainable urban development. Siloed circular economy policies in the built envir...

We propose a session with a forum discussion amongst scholars and stakeholders in waste water reuse in the AMA. Our lead way and introduction to this forum discussion is a recently started project between the universities of Utrecht, Eindhoven and Wageningen involving a multidisciplinary exploration...

Cities in the twenty-first century are increasingly confronted with challenges to incorporate sustainable urban design in light of pressing environmental concerns. The presented project focuses on the clash between new development opportunities and the increasing concerns regarding the sustainabilit...