1.4 million euros for research on circular renovation

Lisanne Havinga - TU/e leads the research on sustainable renovations in construction A consortium led by principal investigator Lisanne Havinga , assistant professor at the research group Building Performance, and co-principal investigator Torsten Schröder , assistant professor at the research group Architectural Design en Engineering will research how to renovate buildings in a circular and emission-free way. The building program of the Dutch National Science Agenda (NWA) allocates 1.4 million euros for this purpose, with a duration of five years. "We are very happy, of course. Me and my colleague Torsten Schröder had a lot of confidence beforehand, and we were very satisfied with the proposal, but of course you never know until the redeeming email. I haven't worked with the other knowledge institutions involved before, but we were on the same page," Havinga clarifies, referring to partners the University of Utrecht, University of Twente and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. Renovation in construction. In order to make the transition to circular practices with lower emissions in the field of building renovation, Havinga and her team will look at the entire chain, from the design phase of a building to its demolition, and back again to the design phase.