The BAMB Project : Buildings As Material Banks

 

Summer 2016


The EU funded BAMB project, Buildings As Material Banks, brings 16 partners from 8 European countries together for one mission – enabling a systemic shift in the building sector by creating circular solutions.

Today, building materials end up as waste when no longer needed, with effects like destroying ecosystems, increasing environmental costs, and creating risks of resource scarcity. To create a sustainable future, the building sector needs to move towards a circular economy.

Whether an industry goes circular or not depends on the value of the materials within it – worthless materials are waste, while valuable materials are recycled. Increased value equals less waste, and that is what BAMB is creating – ways to increase the values of building materials.

BAMB will enable a systemic shift where dynamically and fl exibly designed buildings can be incorporated into a circular economy. Through design and circular value chains, materials in buildings sustain their value – in a sector producing less waste and using less virgin resources. Instead of being to-be waste, buildings will function as banks of valuable materials – slowing down the usage of resources to a rate that meets the capacity of the planet.

The project is developing and integrating tools that will enable the shift: Materials Passports and Reversible Building Design – supported by new business models, policy propositions and management and decision-making models. During the course of the project these new approaches will be demonstrated and refi ned with input from 6 pilots.

The BAMB project started in September 2015 and will progress for 3 years as an innovation action within the EU funded Horizon 2020 program.

The BAMB consortium consists of:

  • - Brussels Environment (IBGEBIM)
  • - Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA)
  • - Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB)
  • - Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO)
  • - Building Research Establishment (BRE)
  • - Zuyd Hogeschool
  • - IBM Netherlands - Sunda Hus i Linköping AB
  • - Ronneby Municipality
  • - Technische Universiteit München (TUM)
  • - Universiteit Twente - Universidade do Minho
  • - Sarajevo Green Design Foundation
  • - Drees & Sommer
  • - BAM Construct UK
  • - Aurubis Bulgaria

MORE INFORMATION
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Contact: info@bamb2020.eu