Can Digital Matchmaking Boost Circular Construction?: Lessons from Reusing the Glass of Centre Pompidou

Catherine De Wolf; Sultan Çetin; Nancy Bocken

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36554-6_42

Can Digital Matchmaking Boost Circular Construction? Lessons from Reusing the Glass of Centre Pompidou

Catherine De Wolf^*, Sultan Çetin, Nancy Bocken

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Design & Construction Management

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Abstract

Digitalization is driving innovation towards a circular economy in various industries—but the construction industry is lagging behind. The building industry, a growth sector due to increasing urbanization, is at the same time actively depleting our resources, generating waste, and emitting greenhouse gases at a tremendous scale and speed. This chapter argues that we must urgently shift from a linear take–make–waste model to a circular one whereby we utilize our resources wisely and keep them from becoming waste. The experience of reusing the glass from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, confronted the architects with the many challenges we face when renovating a building with circular principles. Finding architects to use the iconic bent glass instead of crushing it for recycling (or worse, for disposing it in a landfill) turned out to be a time-consuming task. Adopting artificial intelligence and digital information sharing to match materials for reuse with people who can reuse them is exactly what the construction industry needs for a paradigm shift towards circularity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Design for Rethinking Resources
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023
Editors	Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Carlo Ratti, Martin Tamke
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	667-675
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-36554-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-36553-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36554-6_42
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 2 Jul 2023 → 6 Jul 2023 https://uia2023cph.org/

Publication series

Name	Sustainable Development Goals Series
ISSN (Print)	2523-3084
ISSN (Electronic)	2523-3092

Conference

Conference	UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	2/07/23 → 6/07/23
Internet address	https://uia2023cph.org/

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Centre Pompidou
Circular construction
Digital matchmaking
Reuse

UN SDGs

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De Wolf, C., Çetin, S., & Bocken, N. (2024). Can Digital Matchmaking Boost Circular Construction? Lessons from Reusing the Glass of Centre Pompidou. In M. Ramsgaard Thomsen, C. Ratti, & M. Tamke (Eds.), Design for Rethinking Resources: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023 (pp. 667-675). (Sustainable Development Goals Series). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36554-6_42

De Wolf, Catherine ; Çetin, Sultan ; Bocken, Nancy. / Can Digital Matchmaking Boost Circular Construction? Lessons from Reusing the Glass of Centre Pompidou. Design for Rethinking Resources: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023. editor / Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen ; Carlo Ratti ; Martin Tamke. Cham : Springer, 2024. pp. 667-675 (Sustainable Development Goals Series).

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Can Digital Matchmaking Boost Circular Construction? Lessons from Reusing the Glass of Centre Pompidou. / De Wolf, Catherine; Çetin, Sultan; Bocken, Nancy.
Design for Rethinking Resources: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023. ed. / Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen; Carlo Ratti; Martin Tamke. Cham: Springer, 2024. p. 667-675 (Sustainable Development Goals Series).

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De Wolf C, Çetin S, Bocken N. Can Digital Matchmaking Boost Circular Construction? Lessons from Reusing the Glass of Centre Pompidou. In Ramsgaard Thomsen M, Ratti C, Tamke M, editors, Design for Rethinking Resources: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023. Cham: Springer. 2024. p. 667-675. (Sustainable Development Goals Series). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36554-6_42