13 October: Seminar with Visiting Professor Florian Boer on the circularity of materials and a ‘revolution in wood’.

Many Dutch construction companies and clients have started working with circular construction. But what exactly this form of building means is not yet clear. That is why the ‘Cirkelstad’ (Circle City) platform is working on a covenant, a clear agreement on how circular construction projects should be achieved.

Panel discussion moderated by Arjan van Timmeren on 1 October. After the panel discussion, recorded interviews with the winners of the Circularity in te Built Environment Graduation Award will be on show.

Discover the opportunities that circular building products can offer. Enroll now for the professional education course ‘Circular Building Products for a Sustainable Built Environment’, which starts on 7 October.

On 24 September the winners of the Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Award 2019-2020 were announced by Dean Dick van Gameren.

During the Week of the Circular Economy, PhD candidates from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment will present and discuss the circular aspects of their current research with practitioners.

While circular economy policies and initiatives are gaining momentum, their spatial implications remain largely unexplored. The third debate in the 'Making the Circular Built Environment a Reality' debate series focuses on the spatial dimensions of the circular economy. The Circular Built Environment Hub invites institutes, organisations and individuals to participate in this interactive session that aims to identify spatial conflicts, synergies, and potentials, paving the way for a future Circular Netherlands.

On 14 December, the symposium 'Architecture and Doughnut Economics' takes place.

On 18 December, Sultan Çetin Öztürk defends her PhD thesis 'Towards a Circular Building Industry Through Digitalisation: Exploring how digital technologies can help narrow, slow, close, and regenerate the loops in social housing practice'.

On 5 December, Tanya Tsui defends her PhD thesis 'Spatial approaches to a circular economy: Determining locations and scales of closing material loops using geographic data'.