In January 2024, the new open access book A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age was published.
In the era of emergent digital innovations, the book "A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age", dives into the transformative power of digital technologies such as BIM, AI, blockchain, material passports, and digital fabrication to explore their potential to shift the building industry from a linear economy to a circular economy. The book provides a comprehensive exploration of these technologies, offering practical examples and insights from leading experts in digital transformation and circular economy with solutions to narrow, slow, close, and regenerate resource loops. The book is edited by Catherine De Wolf, Sultan Çetin, and Nancy Bocken and published by Springer, part of the book series Circular Economy and Sustainability (CES). You can download the full book and including 15 chapters at the intersection of circular economy, digitalisation and circular economy here.
