Staff: circular economy and materials

Professor Anne Beim presented Center for Industrial Design’s work with circular economy in architecture.

The materials pyramid is developed by The presentation included three architecture students’ experimental roof pipe material, which is the

Pelle Much Petersen as part of his PhD result of their work with circular materials. At, Christensen & Co we see staff trainings as an inherent part of emssions for production. DNA. All employees have written trainings and education into their contracts. To define relevant education and training we have an One result of our focus on circular economy is our work with education committee comprised of all the different professions incorporating LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) calculations early on in our employed at the studio. Each year the committee define a topic, projects. These calculations present scenarios for how a building’s plan lectures and give input to management on relevant external carbon footprint can be reduced. One example is our ongoing trainings. project Building B112 at DTU, where analysis of materials has lead to the current project proposal. The project is screened for During 2019-2020 we have had a specific focus on circular solutions within the SDG framework and it is part of the test phase economy and we have had presentations by various experts on for DGNB diamond certification. The certification holds a specfic how to work with circular economy in architecture. Among theses focus on architectural quality as a driver for sustainability. presentations were PHD Pelle Munch Petersen and Professor Additionally, we explore posibilities for reusing materials, which Anne Beim, from the Center for Industrialized Design (CINARK) adheres to circular principles for materials. Currently, we are at institute at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Their developing Stejlepladsen Masterplan (page 8) the new School presentations focused on how to select materials with a focus on Gabys at Nørrebro (page 16). Both projects hold specfic solutions the relationship between to performance, dimensions and CO2 for how to incorporate circular principles in architecture.