Reusing precast concrete for a circular economy

Authors:   Agnese Scalbi, Eindhoven University of Technology   Marcel Vullings, TNO  ReCreate’s Dutch cluster reflects on the need for quality assurance and supportive regulation from a business point of view. Reusing precast concrete structural elements can substantially reduce environmental impacts and resource consumption in the built environment. For precast concrete, however, reuse only becomes viable at scale when quality can be demonstrated as clearly as it is for new […]

Ensuring the service life of reused concrete components is a critical requirement for safe reuse, but it is also the key to accurately evaluating the true reuse potential of existing elements. Currently, the construction industry faces a major regulatory roadblock: standards typically limit service life strictly to carbonation (corrosion initiation phase: when carbonation reaches the […]

Author: Satu Huuhka, Tampere University  ReCreate’s Finnish cluster shares news about its new mini-pilots. This is the second of them. You can read about the first one here. Stay tuned for more info on the third mini-pilot, which will follow shortly! The second Finnish mini-pilot was implemented in summer 2025 in conjunction with the construction of the industrial production complex ‘Lokomotion Technology Centre’, which Skanska is building for the client Metso in the Lahdesjärvi district of Tampere. It involved reusing 27 hollow-core slabs in […]

16-18 September 2025 Tampere Hall congress centre Tampere, Finland (street address Yliopistonkatu 55) About the conference The 2nd International Conference on Circularity in the Built Environment (CiBEn) brings together pioneering researchers from all over Europe and beyond to share knowledge on the state-of-the-art on circular construction. Organised in collaboration between Tampere University (Finland), TU Delft […]