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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Waste and Resource Management THEMED ISSUEChampions: David Greenfield, SOcial, ENvironmental & EConomic Solutions (SOENECS) Ltd, Phil Longhurst, Cranfield University, and Jacqueline Glass, Loughborough University.Guest Editor: Dr h.c. Walter R. Stahel, Founder and Director of the Product-Life Institute, Geneva
Call for PapersCircular economy in the built environment
Waste and Resource Management is planning a themed issue for 2016 on circular economy in the built environment.The concept of the circular economy has the potential for profound implications in civil engineering and infrastructure development projects. It presents the challenge to go beyond a materials flow approach to focussing on the natural capital of all resources. The circular economy demands systems thinking. It promotes closed-loop, value-recovering manufacturing and construction methods that operate to ensure environmental protection and are financially sustainable. Organisations such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation have provoked positive industry reaction from demonstrating the economic advantages of such an approach. The synthesis of four principles proposed as contributing to circular economy implementation are namely
• Material development and selection for re-use within production systems
• Material recovery and reverse logistics for resource and material reuse (production and end-of-service-life)
• Product design for the remanufacture of components and reuse of materials to ensure high-value systems
• Business models and system integration to achieve circular economy principles.
There is now a pressing need to challenge current practices and devise mechanisms to embed and future-proof these principles in normal practice. This goes beyond waste management and towards holistic whole-life design, construction, operation and dismantling of the built environment. This themed issue of Waste and Resource Management concentrates on new thinking, new evidence and new models that can help the civil engineering sector to engage and embed the circular economy, as well as specific challenge areas. In each case, evidence is sought where applications can be shown to be transferable across the sector, offering a step-change in resource use within the sector.
Future research priorities that have the potential to demonstrate contributions to resource management can include:
n Best practice examples
n Briefing papers or case studies from industry
n Use of new technology, such as building information modelling
n Mapping the scale of the opportunity
n New financing models
n New technologies
The deadline for abstracts is 29 February 2016. The deadline for
submissions is 31 May 2016.
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