Event Description

Circular economy principles represent the latest phase of sustainable building design, moving beyond efficiency to focus on full material lifecycles. By designing for reuse, repair, and recycling, buildings shift from a linear “build–use–demolish” model to one that keeps resources in circulation and supports health and welfare of building users and other stakeholder communities. Topics to be covered include mining built environments for material reuse, and strategies and case studies around significant and large-scale material reuse.

This online symposium will feature circularity experts with diverse areas of expertise, representing a cross section of the building industry, from architecture, engineering, building portfolio management, and academia. Time will be reserved for Q&A and a panel discussion with all participants.

Learning Objectives - 

• Describe how institutions can develop guidelines to inspire creative circularity problem solving
• Explain methods for integrating sustainability into pre-construction and demolition phases of projects as well concept design
• Cite examples of reuse networks for projects and communities
• Explain the difference between the traditional linear economic model and the circular economy development

This event is free and open to the public, and co-sponsored by PG&E and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment