The missing link – Circular construction

The topic of the circular economy has long since stopped being a myth in the construction industry. Anglicisms such as urban mining, the Circularity Performance Index, and pre-demolition audits already characterize the technical literature today. One thing is clear: we can no longer afford to downcycle high-quality raw materials or dispose of them in landfills. According to the Federal Climate Protection Act (KSG), the construction sector must halve its total emissions to 67 million tons of CO₂ equivalents (per year) by 2030.

The construction industry generates more than half of all waste in Germany. 2018, this amounted to almost 231 million tons of construction and demolition waste.

In the conventional construction process, an elementary puzzle piece is missing to close the loop!

The paradigm shift towards new principles such as reuse, recycle, repair or form follows availability is also slowly gaining ground in the construction industry. Nevertheless, important questions remain unanswered. For example, knowing which raw materials are contained in a building is challenging. The automated inventory, inspection, digitization of materials, and the question of when raw materials will become available for reuse are still unsolved problems. Keeping track of all the resources used is already being solved today with BIM software. But how can we automatically digitize old buildings that were planned without BIM? Digitizing these processes has the potential to advance circular construction significantly.

According to estimates, more than seven million homes and 7.2 million apartments in Germany must be renovated by 2033. The logical consequence: We shouldn't waste more time and start quickly finding answers to those intricate questions.

We want to work with you to find and shape the missing piece of the puzzle mentioned above, for example, assisting you in strategic positioning to create clarity for your company, by designing and implementing next-level products and services, or by creating tools for the digitalization of inventory and seamless robot-human interaction.