URGE's first academic article! 🎂 Contribution in the Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering by our Lead Expert Eleni Feleki on success factors, powerful drivers and instruments for promotion of circular construction ♻️🏗️. Read via: irispublishers.com/ctcse/pdf/CTCS…

City video 9/10: Nigrad Maribor 🇸🇮 shows its efforts to introduce secondary raw materials in the construction sector 🏗️. A pilot production plant for re-using waste streams has lead to the first circular benches and bike racks 🚴 installed in Maribor! youtu.be/qLBajxcU3mE

Today in Prato with the stakeholders of the URBACT Local Group of URGE - Circular building cities: at work to connect circular reuse of public spaces and buildings with the national Recovery plan and the EU programs on sustainable urban development

New thematic article about small-scale #experiments 💡 online! Learn about recycled concrete pavilion in Stadt München, exchange of construction materials by Riga Energy Agency and recycled urban fixtures by Nigrad Maribor in our new thematic report 📰. urbact.eu/insights-urge-…

Learn more from URGE partner @rea 🇱🇻 on their pilot with a construction material exchange point ♻️🎨🪛. From a 4 month small-scale pilot to plans for a larger site - a very inspiring read! Read via: urbact.eu/case-study-rig…

City video 10/10 🎊 Gemeente Utrecht and @Beelenbv 🇳🇱 reflect on the future of circular construction at one of Utrecht's first circular building hubs ♻️🏗️. youtube.com/watch?v=F-tWwJ…

We need radical change, and we need it now! 💥 Today URGE's politicians met to exchange on the role of #cities for #circulareconomy, hosted by Københavns Kommune. Keynote talks from EU i Danmark and EU EnvironmentAgency on how the EU supports #circularbuildingcities and bring that change!

"With Bayernkaserne, our ULG was given the opportunity to set a huge cornerstone for future building projects." More about Stadt München's 🇩🇪 Bayernkaserne and #recycling materials in the interview 🎙️ with engineering ecologist Sebastian Knoll via: urbact.eu/meet-partners-…

I presented our URGE - Circular building cities project (URBACT scheme), all our efforts, and activities at #ELGIP (European Large Geotechnical Institutes Platform: lnkd.in/e4uxMTQx) at their kick-off meeting of the working group on #Sustainability. Thank you for the invitation.

"We explore different approaches. With the Encubator, we support SMEs and we enage the regional market and industry in a Circular Material Depeche." Read more about Københavns Kommune🇩🇰 in the interview 🎙️with head of building renewal Janus Christoffersen via: urbact.eu/meet-partners-…

In this last case study 📰 Ayuntamiento de Granada 🇪🇸 shares lessons on the renewal of the Santa Adela quarter in Granada, in which #socialcircularity 👵🧒👩‍🦱 has contributed greatly to a succesful revitalization. Read more via: urbact.eu/case-study-gra…

We enjoyed the Greek hospitality by Δήμος Καβάλας - Municipality of Kavala 🇬🇷 at URGE's pre-final meeting. Discussion on reuse possibilities of historical tabacco warehouses ♻️🏬, archeological site visit to Phillipi, finalizing action plans and planning future collaboration for #circularbuildingcities.

"Our mission in the circular transition: stimulate thoughts 💭 giving voice to success stories 🔊 create "synapses" between parts of the social body so that things happen 🚀" Interview by Comune di Prato with Maria Rita Cecchini from Legambiente Toscana. Read via: urbact.eu/meet-partners-…

Spanish article about the succesful day of good practices for #circularconstruction organized by Ayuntamiento de Granada 🇪🇸 last month. Great steps towards a #circularbuildingcity ♻️🏙️.

Our last thematic report 📰 by Eleni Feleki is out now! Zooming in🔎 on the #smallscaleactions by Δήμος Καβάλας - Municipality of Kavala 🇬🇷 on using construction and demolition waste in public works and Ayuntamiento de Granada's 🇪🇸 first ever DemoDay on circular construction. Read via: urbact.eu/insights-urge-…

Panel discussion about climate-neutral cities at #URBACTfest...also with Ieva Kalniņa from #Riga, member of our URGE - Circular building cities project. Great insides from the speakers on this topic👍

'Cities are big enough to make a difference and small enough to make it happen'🏙️ Inspiring session co-hosted by Resourceful Cities & URGE - Circular building cities on how cities can accelerate the transition to #circulareconomy ♻️ at the City Festival yesterday.

Proud of this achievement of URGE partner Ayuntamiento de Granada in approving their first circular economy action plan 📰. On the way to a #circularbuildingcity ♻️!

It's a wrap! 🎬 We finished 3 years of collaboration on #circularbuildingcities, with a Final Event. Contributions from EU Environment, OECD SMEs, Regions, Cities & Tourism, Bureau SLA and visits to Sustainer Homes, Lingotto & Woody Building Concepts. A day to remember. Up now: from plans to action! 🚀

Our plans for #circularbuildingcities are ready! Three years of inspiration and knowledge exchange supported by URBACT turned into 9 action plans to boost 🚀 circular economy in the construction sector♻️🏗️. Read all plans via: urbact.eu/plans-circular…