Be a frontrunner in circular building product development. Learn best practices and how to create value for your company in the transition to a Circular Economy.

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This course is suitable for architects, product designers, managers, supply chain actors and other professionals working towards the development of future products used to create sustainable, circular buildings. The course will provide you with a theoretical framework, the terminology used in the sector and real examples of circular solutions in terms of architectural product design. It will use real world case studies and provide you with the tools to create new products and business models, and help you to fully understand the complexity of the task and are able to judge existing circular approaches. Ultimately, it will teach you how circular products are the result of systems thinking and interdisciplinary approaches and will thus help you design and develop new circular building products and processes for your organization.

The objective of the course is for learners to implement the different steps of the Circular Building Products (CBP) methodology, as they work through the transformation of a product of their choice. Each week addresses a different aspect of CBP, with assignments requiring the direct application of the circular principles. Throughout the entire course, you will be supported by the lecturers – you will receive feedback on the weekly assignments and have opportunities to communicate with experts in the field.

Learning Objectives

• Critically evaluate the key parameters needed to make building products circular and assess how they can influence the shift from Linear to Circular Economy in the built environment.
• Develop strategies for circular building product development.
• Analyze different types of circular business models and establish the connection between the different actors.
• Use systems thinking in implementing the transition to circular building products, including technical and operational issues.

Effort

4 - 5 hours per week / 6 weeks

Format

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), self-paced.

For whom?

This course is primarily geared towards working professionals.

Provider

Delft University of Technology / Faculty of Architecture and the Built Enviromnent

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the Circular Economy or Circular Building Environment, as introduced in our MOOCs, is recommended.

Hub

Central

Topic

Circular