SBE19 Brussels - BAMB-CIRCPATH “Buildings as Material Banks - A Pathway For A Circular Future”

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ForewordThe SBE19 Brussels - BAMB-CIRCPATH “Buildings as Material Banks – A Pathway for a Circular Future” held in Brussels on 5 to 7 of February 2019, is an initiative of the Consortium of the H2020 BAMB Project together with the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) series of conferences.Being within the SBE series, this event gathers the support of CIB – International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, iiSBE – International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment, the United Nations Environment Programme, and FIDIC – International Federation of Consulting Engineers. The goal of this series of regional and international conferences is to disseminate innovative policies and developments in the field of sustainable urban environment to a broad international audience of specialists in policy, design, construction and operation of buildings and related infrastructure.BAMB is a EU funded project that brings together 16 partners from 7 European countries throughout Europe together for one mission - enabling a systemic shift in the building sector by creating circular solutions. BAMB has been developing and integrating tools that will enable the shift to a circular built environment: Reversible Building Design tools and Materials Passports – supported by new business models, policy suggestions, management, and decision-making models. In addition to testing developed BAMB tools, design, manufacturing, and construction innovations as well as the environmental and economic benefits of circular buildings have also been investigated through six real-life pilot projects.