Circular economy
The concept of the circular economy aims to reuse and recycle components and building materials in a closed cycle so that little waste is produced in the end. This approach begins with the planning of products and constructions and affects the entire life cycle of a building.The circular economy innovation map shows completed projects in the areas of recycling, reuse and dismantling.
Santa Elisabetta House for senior citizens
The Villaggio Santa Elisabetta nursing home is located between Bressanone and Varna, in northern Italy. The facility aims to achieve sustainable devel...
Recyclinghouse Hannover
The motto ‘waste nothing’ applies particularly to this house in Hanover: the recycling house aims to significantly reduce waste and grey energy in the...
Vienna Patent Office
The European Patent Office in Vienna - located between Belvedere Palace and the Botanical Gardens - is undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment. The b...
EDEN factory building
The ERDEN factory building is located in the small municipality of Schlins in Vorarlberg - a pioneering project that was specially designed for the pr...
Administration building Association for Rural Development
The Association for Rural Development (VLE) Upper Palatinate has realised a pioneering project with the construction of its new administration buildin...
Head building Hall 118, Winterthur storage area
The Abendrot Foundation has erected a shimmering red lighthouse for climate-friendly and sustainable construction on the Sulzer site in Winterthur - c...
Eichstätt Service Centre
The district of Eichstätt has had three interconnected buildings constructed on a plot of land where the vocational school workshops used to be. There...
Sportpark Ost Regensburg
A new sports centre with an indoor swimming pool and athletics hall is being built near the former Prinz Leopold barracks. Joint planning allows syner...
Campus Rauner
The old Rauner primary school, a sprawling conglomerate from the 1960s, was largely demolished. In its place, a compact, three-storey building is now ...
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In the interior of the new headquarters of Rieder Facades GmbH, numerous elements were reused according to the ‘Reuse and Recycle’ principle, such as ...
Cube One TU Nürnberg
The first building of the new campus of the Technical University of Nuremberg (UTN), Cube One, has been home to the Executive Board and various depart...
Korbach Town Hall
With the demolition and new construction of the town hall, the current approaches of urban mining and circular construction were trialled in a solid b...
Adnet elementary school
A new elementary school is being built in Adnet over a planned construction period of two years. The current school will be renovated and extended usi...
Primary school Wals-Siezenheim
The new building for the primary school, after-school care and other communal functions forms an anchor point for the entire town in the no-man's land...
Heidi Horten Museum
The former chancellery building of Archduke Friedrich, built in 1914 in Hanuschhof, was completely gutted to create 1500 square meters of space for He...
General refurbishment of parliament
Following its general refurbishment, the Austrian Parliament is the first historic building to receive the “klimaaktiv Gold” certificate and is a true...
The Raiqa - the Innsbruck centre quarter
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG is building a new headquarters between Südtiroler Platz and Bozner Platz, creating a lively neighbourhood in Innsbruck....
From Prestressed Concrete to Carbon Concrete – Refurbishment of the Hyparschale Magdeburg
Magdeburg. The Hyparschale, designed in 1969 by structural engineer Ulrich Müther, is the largest surviving shell roof of its kind and a key work of E...
Anif elementary school
The Anif elementary school used 1,067 cubic meters of recycled concrete, which accounts for around 32% of the total in-situ concrete. The recycled con...
Trade centre 16
The "Trade centre 16" in Bergheim near Salzburg is a modernised commercial area that originally consisted of the warehouses of the former mail order c...