CIRCULAR DESIGN ASSESSMENT

Category: Research and Innovation

Description of service

The service is oriented to assess the building products and systems from a circular prespective. The service includes the design, technical and feasibility evaluation.

The design is oriented to drive the companies from their “”traditional”” products or system to a more circular ones thanks to the use of dedicated tools (End of life tool) and anaylsis that includes Assembly&Disassembling principles, Reuse potentiality, all under an economical feasibility study.

Target of the service

Construction companies

- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Large companies

Design and architecture studios

- Architects
- Designers
- Structural engineers

Suppliers of materials and technologies

- Manufacturers of building materials
- Building technology providers

Main benefits

  • Reducing waste
  • Extend the lifespan of a product/system
  • enhance the reusability of products/system
  • lower the environamental impact
  • develop new “circular” products/system
  • Prepare the companies for the shift to the circular economy
  • enhance the innovation of the companies’s product/system
  • boosting new business models

Cost

The costs are related to the level of service youd'like to apply for.
The posisibilites are from a small feasibility study based on circular assessment of a designed product till the realization of a mock-up and the consequent disassembling process.

HOW TO ACCESS THE SERVICE

For further information and to shape the service on your interest, please contact us directly (consult the box “contacts” in this page)

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