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12 Summer 2017 European Energy Innovation
COMMUNICATION
Buildings As Material Banks:
Where are we now?
The EU funded BAMB project, taken place with stakeholders via to begin generating 300 passports
Buildings As Material Banks, the BAMB Stakeholder Network and within the project have also been taken,
brings 15 partners from 7 Special Interest Groups, now counting testing and refining the platform and
European countries together approximately 275 members. In framework in the process.
for one mission – enabling a systemic additional to topic specific workshops,
shift in the building sector by creating the Annual Meeting of the BAMB TOOLS FOR REVERSIBLE BUILDING
circular solutions (see first presentation Stakeholder Network was held on the DESIGN
of the project in EEI of Summer 2016). 24th of January in Brussels. Interactions Additional technical developments
and input from stakeholders has have occurred in the area of reversible
The project is developing and contributed to shape the development building design. Significant steps have
integrating tools that will enable the of tools within the project. been taken in the development of the
shift: Materials Passports and Reversible Re-use Potential Tool, which will enable
Building Design – supported by new MATERIALS PASSPORTS the assessment of building structures’
business models, policy propositions Important steps have been taken reuse potential - at the system and
and management and decision-making towards achieving the use of Materials component level - in order to preserve
models. During the course of the Passports. Following the completion of buildings’ and their components’ and
project these new approaches will be a user requirements analysis, a Software materials’ residual value, fostering high
demonstrated and refined with input Platform has been developed to quality reuse. The tool is to be used
from 6 pilots. support the generation of, and access by a variety of actors interested in the
to Materials Passports. The vision for construction of buildings as materials
The BAMB project started in September Materials Passports has also been banks - system and product developers,
2015 as an innovation action within described as part of the Framework architect and engineering offices,
the EU funded Horizon 2020 program. for Materials Passports, which serves demolition contractors, building owners
A great deal of progress has already as a tool to explain passports and give and investors. In addition to providing
been made and rich exchanges have them additional context. Initial steps a score for reuse potential varying
from high level reuse (100% reuse) to
low level reuse (10%), the tool will also
address information about disassembly
characteristics of building structures.
Picture of the New Office Architecture pilot in Essen, Germany PUTTING TOOLS TO THE TEST IN
BAMB PILOT PROJECTS
© kadawittfeld architektur New tools developed as part of the
BAMB project are being put to the test
over the course of the project by way
of testing in 6 real-scale construction
and renovation pilots. All pilots have
begun to perform a feasibility study
in which the objectives of the actions
regarding Material Passports and
reversible building design are being
studied on a theoretical level.
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