ReCreate
Duration
April 2021 - September 2025Partners
Project Manager
ReCreate is an EU Horizon 2020 project that received 鈧�12.5 million in funding to investigate the feasibility of deconstructing and reusing precast concrete elements instead of demolishing them. ReCreate pushes the boundaries towards a more circular construction industry by focusing on all stages of the value chain. By choosing reuse instead of demolition and producing new elements for each new structure, the CO2 footprint can be reduced significantly 鈥� in some cases, up to 75%!
The project is comprised of a consortium of universities and industry partners across four countries: Finland (project leader Tampere University), Sweden (KTH), Germany (Brandenburg University of Technology), and the Netherlands (果冻传媒). In each country, a pilot project will performed. This will involve deconstructing a building and then reconstructing a new building using the harvested elements.
For the Dutch pilot, the nine-story Prinsenhof office complex in Arnhem was deconstructed in 2023 by Dutch industry partner Lagemaat. Over 450 floor slabs and 350 load-bearing wall elements were successfully reclaimed and are ready for a second application. This will be the structure of the Circulair Center Netherlands (CCN) building, which is planned to be built in Heerde in 2025.
ReCreate touches on every aspect of the value chain for precast concrete elements, ranging from deconstruction, architectural design, structural design, sustainability, economics, business models, logistics, policy and social acceptance. The 果冻传媒 team is specifically made up of structural engineers researching several exciting different topics including design software applications, new connections and demountability, structural reliability and reassembly. The 果冻传媒 team is mainly responsible for the work packages WP2 (deconstruction) and WP5 (design) as the leader but is also involved in the other WPs.
The ReCreate project is scheduled to wrap up 5+ years of research of industry experience toward the end of 2025, where all findings and experience will be made completely open source to serve as a hallmark for further development in this impelling new market!