Dr Rabia Charef serves as a Research Associate at Lancaster University (UK) actively contributing to the establishment of a circular future. With an extensive 15 years of industry experience, she spent over a dozen years leading intricate architectural projects in the residential and healthcare sectors. Transitioning to academia, she leverages her industry insights to fuel research closely tied to practitioners’ needs and challenges, taking a bottom‑up approach.

• Part I. Setting the foundation for circular construction. 1. The future of the circular built environment: interest of a “low-tech” approach. 2. The reuse of building elements: touchstone of a circular construction economy. 3. Buildings as material mines – towards digitalization of resource cadasters for circular economy. 4. Boosting construction waste material circularity: A sharing economy approach. 5. The role of standardisation in circular economy for the construction sector. Part II. Practical strategies for circular construction: building and material levels. 6. How can we view buildings as material banks? Learning from the pre-redevelopment process. 7. The potential for reusing reinforced concrete beams: technical feasibility and environmental impact. 8. Building together with the site materials: a practitioner’s perspective. 9. Towards a situated understanding of challenges in the design and construction of circular earth buildings: the case study of an office building in France. Part III. Fostering circular construction through digital transformation. 10. Digitalizing the deconstruction process: towards a circular economy for the construction industry. 11. Accelerating material reuse in construction: two case studies: one life, multiple cycles, a longer life. 12. Additive manufacturing and circular economies.

Dr Rabia Charef serves as a Research Associate at Lancaster University (UK) actively contributing to the establishment of a circular future. With an extensive 15 years of industry experience, she spent over a dozen years leading intricate architectural projects in the residential and healthcare sectors. Transitioning to academia, she leverages her industry insights to fuel research closely tied to practitioners’ needs and challenges, taking a bottom‑up approach.

• Part I. Setting the foundation for circular construction. 1. The future of the circular built environment: interest of a “low-tech” approach. 2. The reuse of building elements: touchstone of a circular construction economy. 3. Buildings as material mines – towards digitalization of resource cadasters for circular economy. 4. Boosting construction waste material circularity: A sharing economy approach. 5. The role of standardisation in circular economy for the construction sector. Part II. Practical strategies for circular construction: building and material levels. 6. How can we view buildings as material banks? Learning from the pre-redevelopment process. 7. The potential for reusing reinforced concrete beams: technical feasibility and environmental impact. 8. Building together with the site materials: a practitioner’s perspective. 9. Towards a situated understanding of challenges in the design and construction of circular earth buildings: the case study of an office building in France. Part III. Fostering circular construction through digital transformation. 10. Digitalizing the deconstruction process: towards a circular economy for the construction industry. 11. Accelerating material reuse in construction: two case studies: one life, multiple cycles, a longer life. 12. Additive manufacturing and circular economies.

Dr Rabia Charef serves as a Research Associate at Lancaster University (UK) actively contributing to the establishment of a circular future. With an extensive 15 years of industry experience, she spent over a dozen years leading intricate architectural projects in the residential and healthcare sectors. Transitioning to academia, she leverages her industry insights to fuel research closely tied to practitioners’ needs and challenges, taking a bottom‑up approach.

• Part I. Setting the foundation for circular construction. 1. The future of the circular built environment: interest of a “low-tech” approach. 2. The reuse of building elements: touchstone of a circular construction economy. 3. Buildings as material mines – towards digitalization of resource cadasters for circular economy. 4. Boosting construction waste material circularity: A sharing economy approach. 5. The role of standardisation in circular economy for the construction sector. Part II. Practical strategies for circular construction: building and material levels. 6. How can we view buildings as material banks? Learning from the pre-redevelopment process. 7. The potential for reusing reinforced concrete beams: technical feasibility and environmental impact. 8. Building together with the site materials: a practitioner’s perspective. 9. Towards a situated understanding of challenges in the design and construction of circular earth buildings: the case study of an office building in France. Part III. Fostering circular construction through digital transformation. 10. Digitalizing the deconstruction process: towards a circular economy for the construction industry. 11. Accelerating material reuse in construction: two case studies: one life, multiple cycles, a longer life. 12. Additive manufacturing and circular economies.