Material Passports: How Embedded Data Can Rethink Architecture and Design

Too often buildings end up as waste at the end of their lifecycle. How can the built environment move towards a circular economy, and in turn, reimagine how valuable materials are tracked and recycled? Looking to address this issue, material passports are one idea that involves rethinking how materials are recovered during renovation and demolition for reuse. The result is when a building is ready to be demolished, it becomes a storage bank for useful materials.

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Cite: Eric Baldwin. "Material Passports: How Embedded Data Can Rethink Architecture and Design" 17 Aug 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/966223/material-passports-how-embedded-data-can-rethink-architecture-and-design> ISSN 0719-8884

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