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Super Circular Estate - First Circular Social Housing Estate for 100% Material and Social Circularity Kerkrade, The Netherlands
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Circular economy
Edit 11 March 2019
by Elma Durmisevic, UIA Expert

Super Circular Estate Zoom-in 1: Circular versus conventional building process

Kerkrade Super Circular Estate construction process
UIA Expert Elma Durmisevic zooms into the differences between circular and conventional building process through interviews with the key members of the project. Check out what the main challenges are when it comes to recovering, refurbishing and reusing materials from building blocks!

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