Getting to Circular Building Economics

Description

Interested in how the building industry is able to become a circular industry? Working in the building industry, intending to go working in the building industry or being interested in the facets of circularity of this industry are all good reasons to join this one week of learning by doing!

You'll learn via a Serious Game all about what circularity entails; a Business Management Scan will give you understanding of different possible levels of circularity; and through a Behaviour Play you will learn about the importance of behavioural change and its impact on the transition towards circularity for building construction business management.

Project based content with practice experience

The HU research group Process Innovation and Information systems is already working for over three years on a national project that's governmental driven and focusses on the transition from a linear to a circular building industry. The reason (which has an international character) is the degreasing availability of virgin resources combined with the increasing need for more housing and buildings. Besides this, the building industry is hit by the energy transition, the waste transition and the increasing urge for getting more sustainable all due to climate change. Performing research with and for the practitioners in the building industry has delivered many insights in the topic of circularity.

Day to Day Documents

Day-to-day 2026 UU Getting to Circular Building Economics.pdf

Lecturers

Dr. Marja Exalto-Sijbrands
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (HU)
Research group Process Innovation and Information Systems

Target audience

Are you a student interested in working in the building arena after graduation, are you employed by a company in the building construction value chain or are you working as a consultant in the building industry? With this course you will be able to help you (future)company to start adopting circularity in the pace that fits the company.

Aim of the course

The aim of this course is to make sure you can work with tools that help you to define a road map that moves a business model into a more circular business model. With other words, through this course you will not only understand what circularity entails in the building construction domain, you will be able to help any company in the building construction value chain to make the transition towards an circular business model by using the models we teach you during this one week.

Study load

We will have some articles to read prior to the sessions. All toghether the workload equals to 2 EC of which 5 days 8 hours represents the major part of the workload. This means that the extra reading time is up to 16 hours at most.