A Territorial Construction System for a Circular Low-Carbon Built Environment

RECONSTRUCT will develop low-carbon alternatives to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and using them together with recycled and bio-based materials to produce in-situ components, precast components and sandwich panels designed to be removable, repairable and reusable.

The whole lifecycle of construction materials will be digitized allowing the tracking and sharing of material info and together with the extensive use of digital tools to support the design, construction and deconstruction phases will allow impact and waste minimization. These innovations will be applied to both onsite and prefabricated construction approaches while AI-based solutions will be used to establish stable regional supply chains of waste materials.

RECONSTRUCT will demonstrate its approach through the construction of two real-scale demonstrators and set up regional Circular Construction Clusters incorporating all the local value chain. By doing so, RECONSTRUCT aims to achieve a step-change in material consumption and carbon footprint by reducing waste generated during construction by 90%, developing materials with up to 0% virgin content, reducing the carbon footprint of buildings by 50% and increasing recycling to 90%.