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.

On 20 June, Juan Azcarate Aguerre defends his PhD thesis 'Façades-as-a-service: A cross-disciplinary model for the (re)development of circular building envelopes'.

Grondstoffen worden schaarser, mondiale toeleveringsketens beginnen te haperen, en marktprijzen fluctureren. Wat betekent deze schaarste voor de toekomst van de Zuid-Hollandse Delta? Op 14 april gaan beleidsmakers, wetenschappers en ondernemers met elkaar in gesprek over hoe Zuid-Holland, als dichtbevolkte Delta, zichzelf veerkrachtig en duurzaam kan ontwikkelen voor een leefbare toekomst.

The Circular Built Environment Hub of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment will host the second Summer School on Circularity in the Built Environment from 5 to 7 July 2023.

On 19 January, Rusnė Šilerytė defends her PhD thesis 'Geographies of Waste: Significance, Semantics & Statistics in pursuit of a Circular Economy'.

On April 21, Anne van Stijn defends her PhD thesis 'Developing circular building components: Between ideal and feasible'.