and Drivers

Urban Mining - Is the process of recovery and reusing a city’s materials. These materials may come from buildings, infrastructure, or products that have become obsolete.

Adaptive Reuse - “Refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for.”

Restorative Design - “We define it as an intentional process, one that creates a built environment promoting wellness, economy through conservation, and a more meaningful connection to nature.

- Johnston Design Group

Site Rehabilitation - The assessment of site contamination and the remediation activities that reduce the levels of contaminations at a site through accepted treatment methods to meet the cleanup target levels for that site.

Non-Extractive Architecture - “At the most basic level, Non-extractive architecture is an architecture that does not produce externalities.”

- Joseph Grima, Author of Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion and co-founder of Space Caviar

Circular Economy - “... is a systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. The Circular Economy is based on three principles: Eliminate waste and pollution, Circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and Regenerate Nature.”

- Ellen MacArthur Foundation