Circular Approaches for the Built Environment (CABE)

CABE aims to develop and pilot innovative urban resource sharing infrastructures and circular solutions for the built environment by reusing Construction Demolition Waste (CDW). Creating a cadastre approach, tracing mechanisms, disaster waste treatment solutions and a synergetic market for reused materials will contribute to depolluting urban regions, reducing environmental burdens and costs, creating jobs and the security of material supply. CABE will develop a common understanding to determine shareable secondary resources from the built environment and create an overview of circularity principles, regulations, stakeholders and industrial practices. Digital tools are conceptualized, integrating an urban building material cadastre, a material passport framework and a secondary material information platform as the innovative aspect of the project. In parallel CABE will be analysing market effects of urban-resource sharing, environmental impacts, and social aspects of equality, diversity and inclusion. To ensure practical relevance, the developed approaches and tools will be piloted in selected demonstration cases dealing with disaster waste, building materials cadastres and an urban circularity centre. Finally, CABE will culminate in scientific publications, best practice guidelines and a roadmap for informed decision making and practical implementation. Transdisciplinary stakeholder involvement is a critical part of the research with inclusion also voices of vulnerable groups.