Circular Building Products for a Sustainable Built Environment

Overview

This Circular Building Products for a Sustainable Built Environment course at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is suitable for architects, product designers, managers, supply chain actors and other professionals working towards the development of future products used to create sustainable, circular buildings.

The course will provide you with a theoretical framework, the terminology used in the sector and real examples of circular solutions in terms of architectural product design. It will use real world case studies and provide you with the tools to create new products and business models, and help you to fully understand the complexity of the task and are able to judge existing circular approaches.

Ultimately, it will teach you how circular products are the result of systems thinking and interdisciplinary approaches and will thus help you design and develop new circular building products and processes for your organization.

You will learn how to:

• Critically evaluate the key parameters needed to make building products circular and assess how they can influence the shift from Linear to Circular Economy in the built environment.
• Develop strategies for circular building product development.
• Analyze different types of circular business models and establish the connection between the different actors.
• Use systems thinking in implementing the transition to circular building products, including technical and operational issues.