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Rising from rubble - Leveraging existing construction tools for upcycling concrete waste into slender walls
Katrin Beyer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Stefana Parascho, Qianqing Wang, Maxence Grangeot
In this paper, we present a new method for upcycling concrete rubble waste into slender walls through the lightweight digital augmentation of mainstream construction machines. By using such method, the environmental impact of concrete construction and demo ...
Springer2024Interactive design with optimum matchmaking of reused structural elements – a software implementation
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting
Structural systems are a significant contributor to buildings’ embodied carbon and reusing structural elements in new load-bearing applications is one strategy to reduce this impact. However, integrating this approach into existing design workflows without ...
International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)2023Upcycling Space Structures (Preface to special issue)
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Olivier Baverel
The construction industry’s contribution to the deterioration of Earth’s ecosystem is huge. 11% of all anthropic greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are due to the construction, demolition, and transformation of buildings and infrastructure. Construction an ...
2021PUTTING CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE
Circular economies produce virtually no waste, as materials are re-used and recycled continuously. It’s a dramatic shift from the current linear economy in which we take, make, consume and dispose – drawing regularly on natural resources to create products ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017