The products and construction systems are the ingredients of our project, with which we materialize our design on paper. And, therefore, buildings are also authentic warehouses of materials and potential energy sources. Unfortunately, the traditional form of demolition makes us think that a constructively obsolete building has no value and only carries waste. We do not value the potential that buildings have at the end of their service phase, depositing inert raw materials in a landfill instead of revaluing them. The circular economy focused on architecture is dedicated to completely turning this practice around . In our circular architectural design we are not only going to think about how our project is built, but also how it is dismantled.
In this way, the value of the materials used to assemble the building is maintained beyond its end-of-use phase. But this mentality is not new. In other sectors, for example the automotive sector, production models are designed to recycle more than 95% of component materials. Surprising, right? You see that a fairly important weight in terms of the application of the circular economy in architecture falls on the design of construction systems and components. Let's see how we can do it and what we have to look for to UAE Phone Number choose circular products. How is a carpentry system “circularized”? Collection of PVC scraps in the manufacture of profiles that are recycled to incorporate them back into the manufacturing chain. Photo: KÖMMERLING. We already know that the use of circular materials and construction components is essential to create circular architecture.
Let's see what the application of the circular economy in the case of carpentry consists of. The main thing to "circularize" is to completely review the system's business model , redesigning it from linearity to circularity. This means that the following principles must be put into practice for its manufacture: Product design with “design for disassembly” strategies , so that materials are easily recovered at the end of the building's life cycle and reinserted in the manufacture of new components. Mechanization of assembly and disassembly processes. Radical rejection of the use of "first-use/new" raw materials . Extreme reuse of raw materials from dismantled systems. Maximum use of material waste in the manufacturing of components, reinserting them back into the production chain. The key to the design of circular carpentry and construction components in general is to maintain the maximum economic value of its materials over time and take advantage of waste , emphasizing conserving this value even when the carpentry is dismantled from the building.