A Conceptual Framework for a Digital Circular Built Environment

A Conceptual Framework for a Digital Circular Built Environment: The Data Pipeline, Passport Generator and Passport Pool

Çetin, Sultan (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
Rukanova, B.D. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)
De Wolf, Catherine (ETH Zürich)
Gruis, V.H. (TU Delft Real Estate Management)
Tan, Y. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)

Shahnoori, Shore (editor)
Mohammadi, Masi (editor)

2022

This article proposes a conceptual model to address the structural holes in data sharing between (and beyond) actors in the circular built environment supply chain and monitoring circular economy progress. Current digital innovations such as material passports and Building Information Modelling applications aim at increasing quality and availability of information about materials and their application in buildings to facilitate future reuse or recycling, based on the idea of buildings-as-material-banks. Although these approaches offer great potential to recover value from building materials, they mainly focus on a single building and have a limited capacity to exchange data with other supply chain actors in a timely manner. In this article, we argue that there is a need for an integrated digital infrastructure that expands beyond the industries and countries for enabling a connected global circular economy. Therefore, this article proposes an initial conceptualization of a digital infrastructure towards achieving a circular built environment. The proposed model puts forward three interoperable components: The Data Pipeline, Passport Generator, and Passport Pool, based on emerging technologies such as blockchain technology, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.

Circular economy
built environment
construction industry
digital technology
digital infrastructure
data pipeline
blockchain technology
artificial intelligence

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5ff42ea0-393d-47c9-877d-786b66746295

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

2022-09-09

978-90-386-5486-7

The state of circularity: The content of "the 2nd International Conference on Circular Systems for the Built Environment"

2nd International Conference on Circular Systems for the Built Environment, ICSBE 2 (Hybrid/Online), 2021-12-09, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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© 2022 Sultan Çetin, B.D. Rukanova, Catherine De Wolf, V.H. Gruis, Y. Tan