Stuart Smith - A New Paradigm for Materials  The Circular Building
Channel: Sustainable Buildings Canada
Date: 2022-06-30

Stuart Smith will talk about a new paradigm for how we use materials in construction based on a circular model in the built environment. This will be illustrated with the project The Circular Building – a demonstration project to rethink design approaches to allow for recovery of materials. Since the delivery of this building Arup have developed design principles for circular design both in projects and through research conducted with The Ellen Macarthur Foundation. The talk will outline examples from practice for material leasing, material passports and use of reclaimed materials. There will also be a discussion on what the barriers are to further adoption of circular models.