Publications de Maléna Bastien Masse

A standardized method to assess the reuse potential of building components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This paper presents a standardized assessment method to evaluate the reuse potential of building components, addressing the construction industry's need for sustainable resource management. The procedure relies on basic data about the assessed building, wi ...

CRC Press2025

An extensive database of Swiss building structures to predict the availability of materials and components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

Predicting the availability and quantities of reusable components and recyclable materials is one of the challenges of a wider implementation of circular economy practices in construction. A detailed knowledge of the composition of past and current buildin ...

CRC Press2025

Pedagogy of an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop to design and build floor systems with reused materials

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Peter Zurbrügg, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This paper reflects on the pedagogy used for a series of student workshops on building with reused materials at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and presents the results of its 7 th edition, which focused on floor systems. During these w ...

CRC Press2025

The persistent practice of reuse in the modern era: A survey of francophone advertising in Switzerland from 1851 to 1968

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This study examines the persistent, though often overlooked, practice of material reuse in francophone Switzerland, exploring advertisements from 1851 to 1968 that illustrate a continuous and practical approach to reclaiming construction materials. These a ...

CRC Press2025

Analysis and Synthesis of Existing Procedures Used to Determine the Reuse Potential of Building Elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

Amid escalating concerns over CO2 emissions, resource depletion, and waste generation in construction, reusing building elements from obsolete structures presents a sustainable solution. This paper critically reviews 21 procedures used in Europe and the Un ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2025

Large Concrete Rubble as a New Structural Construction Material: Opportunities and Digital Processes for Load-Bearing Walls

Christophe Moser, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Maxence Grangeot

Concrete is amongst the most wasted materials on earth, mainly due to building demolitions. Currently, after a building’s end of life, concrete is crushed to be used as replacement gravel in new concrete mixes or for backfilling. Aiming to increase the cir ...

MDPI AG2025

Digital Inventory of Swiss Construction Systems (DISCS)

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

The Digital Inventory for Swiss Construction Systems is a database structure that provides detailed information on component attributes in as-built load-bearing and insulating layers of existing buildings. The first version of the dataset provides granular ...

Zenodo2025

Disused Concrete, Digital Acupuncture and Reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Crushing concrete liberated from demolished buildings to provide recycled aggregate is argued to be a sustainable way of reducing material extraction. Yet, in these high‐energy processes, large amounts of new cement is often used, negating this as a low‐ca ...

Wiley2024

Upcycling concrete rubble into masonry walls: Design and assessment of two prototypes built with digitally augmented tools

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot

Concrete rubble is currently a downcycled material whose upcycling remains under-explored and complex. This paper presents an accessible upcycling strategy to design and build slender structural masonry walls made from off-the-pile large demolition concret ...

Springer Nature Switzerland2024

Learning from North Americans: barriers and levers to reuse from practitioners' experiences

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This study delves into the intricacies of building element reuse practices in North America, spanning the genesis, current practices, and future projections of the initiatives. Using a semi-structured interview method, 35 stakeholders representing diverse ...

Institute of Physics2024