The event provided the CircEUlar team with a lot of good insights on the next steps for ensuring further feedback loop mechanisms between academic researchers and policy officers so that modelling can facilitate the circular economy as a means of supporting the Climate Agenda.
Repurposing obsolete steel pipelines shows significant potential to reduce the environmental burden of district heating networks, transform obsolete infrastructure into an essential part of the transition, and introduces an additional circular strategy helping to achieve green energy targets.
Based on a total of 41 interviews with industry professionals across 11 countries, the new report shows a picture of wide variety in the use of design tools and construction automation,
Twenty-eight CircEUlar members from across 12 research organisations met over three days of collaborative working. Partners have come away from Groningen energised and looking forward to continuing the collaborative working.
The entire consortium is gathering for its third in-person meeting. After meetings in Vienna, Austria, and Venice, Italy, the consortium convenes in Groningen, the Netherlands, this year.
Over a four-month period, a distinguished curator, Nora Mayr, facilitated dynamic exchanges between four groups of researchers from CircEUlar with artists, under the title ‘Sensing Resonance’.