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🏆The #DrasticProject is delighted to announce that project partner Produktif has received not one, but two Green Solution Awards from Construction21 - International for their work on the design and submission of a Passive House construction to the Ice Box Challenge Oslo in the summer of 2024! 🏆 🌏 The project has also now been selected for the next round of international awards to be announced at #COP30 in Brazil this November. ❄️ The IceBox Challenge Oslo was co-organised by A2M Architecture, hub.brussels, Rexylience Conseil and Produktif, showcasing its circular patented Design-for-Dissasembly (DfAD™) technology. The re-used wood cladding was supplied by Drastic Norwegian partner Omtre who sourced it both from a construction site and a 120-year old timber barn. 🏘️For the challenge, two mini-houses were constructed — one in accordance with the Norwegian national code and the other according to the energy-efficient Passive House standard. 🧊On 19 May 2024, a one-tonne ice block was placed in each mini-house to test the individual insulation performance of each. The houses were displayed outdoors for a month in the middle of summer in Oslo, Norway. 🧊After 33 days, the Passive House unit retained 150 kg of ice, while the standard unit’s ice had melted entirely within just 11 days. This challenge highlighted the potential of circular design, with the Passive House mini-house providing a platform for Produktif and Omtre to test their innovations that will be further improved and demonstrated during the Drastic Project.                                                                                                                           🙏🏽 A huge thank you to everyone who cast their vote for Produktif! ➡️ Read the full Ice Box Challenge case study (plus, watch a video from Produktif detailing the whole process) on Construction21’s website here: http://bit.ly/4240Wcu ➡️ Learn more about Drastic: https://bit.ly/3wTbrTh #CircularEconomy #BuildingTheTransition

🌿 Keen to learn more about the #DrasticProject and how its five Demonstrators aim to pave the way for increased circularity, sustainability and affordability within the built environment?   🎊 Drastic was delighted to have a recent project deep-dive featured by PBC Today. ➡️ Head over to their website to read the full-length article: http://bit.ly/45Te7Or   ♻️ Drastic is a pioneering initiative that aims to demonstrate affordability, sustainability and circularity within the built environment via a collection of innovative European pilot projects known as 'Demonstrators’.   🖥️ Learn more about Drastic and its Demonstrators: https://bit.ly/3wTbrTh   #CircularEconomy #PBCToday #BIMToday #BuildingTheTransition World Green Building Council

📣 📽 Introducing the #DrasticProject’s French Demonstrator! 📽 📣 🏢 In Paris, office buildings are typically retrofitted every six years, with most ceilings and tiles being landfilled or incinerated for energy recovery at the end of their life.  ♻️ The French Demonstrator is here to change that, showing the potential for the reusability of interior products, such as ceiling tiles and partition walls, in an office retrofit. ♻️ 🌍 Reusing these internal elements at a large scale supports the necessary decarbonisation of Europe’s built environment, and a transition to embedding circular practices into office retrofits.  🌟 Drastic is a pioneering initiative that aims to demonstrate affordability, sustainability, and circularity within the built environment via a collection of innovative European pilot projects known as 'Demonstrators’. 🙌 ✨ Learn more about Drastic ➡️ https://bit.ly/3wTbrTh #CircularEconomy #BuildingTheTransition European Commission, Sorigué, Adec Global SL, Alliance HQE - GBC, CELSA GROUP, Saint-Gobain, TECNALIA Research & Innovation, ICADE, LEZAMA DEMOLICIONES, Madaster, Omtre, Produktif, TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, Timbeco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Maastricht Sustainability Institute , VITO, CAALA | LCA & CO₂-Optimierung

Drastic has allowed produktif to refine its purpose as integrator, a much-needed role. It has become apparent that “drastic” change toward circular value streams is eminent, but change is hard. The culture must also change from a competition (to each their own) to a collaborative mindset, but what does collaboration mean? It means sharing and working towards common embetterment. In Paris and in Rome, Produktif and United Village Global (UVG) - Association teamed up to host co-creation workshops. These are unique, valuable and exclusive opportunities to make room from the red-ocean blood-bath of chasing marginal improvements, and instead consider a blue-ocean horizon of double-digit net margins and sustainable growth. It is clear that in order to position an industrial capacity to rebuild and deploy in growth markets, one must embrace and welcome change as a friend and see one’s own vulnerabilities as a potential for learning, growing and attracting opportunity.

📢 Today marks #EarthOvershootDay – the date when humanity has consumed nature’s annual budget of ecological resources, surpassing what Earth can regenerate in a year. 🌍 🏢 For the construction sector – one of the largest consumers of raw materials and energy – this is a powerful reminder of the urgent need for smarter, more sustainable practices. ✨ The #DrasticProject is playing a key part in the drive to delay Earth Overshoot Day via its groundbreaking new Design Guidance and Assessment Framework and multiple European Demonstrator projects. 🔎 What does the framework offer? 📐 A decision tree to guide sustainable building and product design ♻️ Indicators for circularity, sufficiency & multi-cycle life approaches ♻️ Tools for data collection, traceability & scenario planning ♻️ Alignment with EU standards (EN 15804, Level(s) and the EU Taxonomy) 🏗️ The framework is being applied across Drastic’s five Demonstrator projects to validate their levels of sustainability, aiming to help reduce whole life carbon and promote circular practices in the built environment. 📖 Over time, a consistent application of this widely scalable framework, combined with the lessons learned from Drastic, could contribute to delaying Earth Overshoot Day by reducing the environmental footprint of the construction sector across Europe, and beyond. 🌱   ➡️ Download the framework here: http://bit.ly/413GBU9 ➡️ Learn more about how the Drastic project can help delay Earth Overshoot Day: http://bit.ly/3GP2IHb #MoveTheDate #EndOvershoot #EcologicalDeficit #Sustainability #Collaboration #EcosystemThinking #CircularConstruction #CircularEconomy #BuildingTheTransition #BoldOnBuildings

🚧 Attention: new #DrasticProject report release—Pioneering Multi-Cycle Sustainable and Circular Design in Construction 🌍     📖We’re excited to share Drastic’s Design Guidance and Assessment Framework, a key milestone in the Horizon Europe-funded Drastic project.     📘 Read the full report here: https://bit.ly/4lpcgr3    📐This framework is designed to support building product developers, architects, real estate developers, and environmental assessors in integrating multi-cycle sustainability, circularity, and sufficiency into their design and assessment processes.     🔍 What’s inside?     ♻️A comprehensive decision tree to guide sustainable product and building design.     ♻️Practical indicators for circularity, sufficiency, and a multi-cycle life cycle approach (MLCA & MLCC).     ♻️A starting point to support data collection, traceability, and multi-cycle scenario planning.     ♻️Alignment with EU standards and frameworks such as EN 15804, Level(s), and the EU Taxonomy.     🏗️ The framework is being applied across the five Drastic Demonstrator pilot projects, aiming to help reduce whole life carbon and promote circular practices in the built environment—paving the way for a decarbonised EU building stock by 2050.  The framework will be used to assess the pilot projects repeatedly, validating their effectiveness in reducing total environmental impacts and total life cycle costs while enhancing levels of circularity.      👏 A huge thanks to the teams at VITO, TECNALIA Research & Innovation, World Green Building Council, Madaster, CAALA | LCA & CO₂-Optimierung, and all contributors for their dedication and expertise.     #Sustainability #Construction #LifeCycleAssessment #EUProjects #HorizonEurope #DrasticProject #GreenBuilding #Innovation #ClimateAction #CircularEconomy #BuildingTheTransition #BoldOnBuildings World Green Building Council, European Commission, Sorigué, Adec Global SL, Alliance HQE - GBC, CELSA GROUP, Saint-Gobain, TECNALIA Research & Innovation, ICADE, LEZAMA DEMOLICIONES, Madaster, Omtre, Produktif, TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, Timbeco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Maastricht Sustainability Institute, VITO, CAALA | LCA & CO₂-Optimierung, Saint-Gobain Ecophon AB, Clipper Coramine (Saint-Gobain), Saint-Gobain Research Paris, Saint-Gobain Weber Deutschland

🚀Introducing the #DrasticProject Data Protocol: Standardising Multi-cycle Sustainability Assessments! 🚀 📊Picture this: Multiple Drastic Demonstrators are developing innovative sustainable solutions, each evaluated by different parties using various sustainability KPIs. But here's the problem—everyone's working with different data formats and structures! 📉This fragmentation makes it nearly impossible to collect, document, and consolidate results effectively, undermining the accuracy and comparability of sustainability assessments. 📋What is the Drastic Data Protocol?📋 ✅The Data Protocol, developed by Drastic partner CAALA | LCA & CO₂-Optimierung, in collaboration with fellow project partners Madaster, VITO, and TECNALIA Research & Innovation, is the answer to this challenge: it creates a unified methodology for systematic data collection with standardised calculation processes, ensuring that all necessary data for Multi-cycle Life Cycle Assesments (MLCA) and Multi-cycle Life Cycle Costing (MLCC) can be efficiently and consistently captured. Key objectives: 🎯Facilitate systematic data gathering: streamlining the collection of data required for comprehensive sustainability assessments, regardless of the specific focus or scope. 🎯Ensure consistency: by establishing a unified data format, all demonstrators can input data consistently, enabling meaningful comparisons and consolidated analysis. 🎯Support stakeholders: providing clear guidance on data usage and priority, helping parties to understand which data points are critical and how they will be utilised. 🎯Raise awareness: emphasising the importance of MLCAs and the critical role that accurate, comprehensive data plays in evaluating environmental and economic impacts throughout a product's life cycle. 👷🏽♀️ Assessment framework👷🏽♀️ The protocol operates on three hierarchical levels: 🏘️ Building level: the highest assessment level using only project-specific data, based on EN 15978:2011 framework 🔨 Element level: the intermediate categorisation level 🧱Component level: the lowest hierarchical element based on EN 15804+A2:2019, assessed once for each smallest unit ♻️ Multi-cycle innovation ♻️ What sets this protocol apart is its focus on multi-cycle assesments—because materials don't just have one life! It captures the environmental and economic benefits of materials that go through multiple life cycles, supporting various R-strategies (reuse, recycle, etc.) through both simplified and detailed approaches. 🚀 The impact 🚀 📋 By standardising how sustainability data is collected and processed across different demonstrators and assessment approaches, the Drastic Data Protocol enables more accurate, comparable, and actionable insights for sustainable building practices. 🗣️ Because when data speaks the same language, we can finally hear what our buildings are really telling us! 🏢 Download Drastic’s D2.2 Multi-cycle Sustainability paper here 👉 https://bit.ly/3HAv3AZ

🚨 New Paper Out! 🌍🌲 Can the Norwegian SirkTRE consortium really reduce Norway’s climate obligations by 8%? Together with Kristine Nore, Per F Jørgensen and Francisco Tienda Reséndez, I’m excited to share our latest conference paper for the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2025) in Brisbane! In this paper, we reflect on four years of insights from SirkTRE, Norway’s flagship circular wood project (2021–2025). SirkTRE's aim? Enable a full-scale value chain for reusing and recycling post-consumer wood—with bold climate ambitions. We revisit the big vision we set out with in 2021, analyze what we've learned along the way, and critically examine how far we've come. Spoiler: the transition to circularity isn’t guaranteed unless we scale up and push for common guidelines, including about how to measure environmental impact. In the end, we wrote that we look forward to the results of our EU-funded projects Drastic, CIRCULess and RAW project for more (common/standardized) frameworks on impact evaluation, but also impact creation. 💡 Key themes: * Real vs. projected impact of SirkTRE * Why life cycle data is still so uncertain * What needs to change to make circular timber construction work at scale Special thanks to Angelica Kveen and Alexander Otto Mertens from Grape Architects, Arild Øvergaard and Simen Ødegård from Norsk Massivtre AS, our colleague Ivar Ragnhildstveit from Omtre, and the researchers Lone Ross, Roja Modaresi and Ana Maria Bouzada for the discussions and feedback in the past months and years. There were a lot of discussions behind this paper. That is why you read the words 'humble' and 'skeptical' in our abstract 😅. If you're working on circular economy, timber engineering, or climate strategy — this one’s for you >> Nore K. et al. (2025). CAN THE SIRKTRE CONSORTIUM FACILITATE FOR 8% OF THE NORWEGIAN PARIS CLIMATE OBLIGATIONS WITH THEIR CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS? https://lnkd.in/dFe98VZW https://lnkd.in/dVxYXdt8 #SirkTRE #CircularEconomy #TimberEngineering #Sustainability #WCTE2025 #LCA #Reuse #Norway #ClimateAction #ResearchImpact