Our research supports the aim for building designs in a circular economy model. Reduction of material impact, reconfigurability and flexibility in the design, and the consideration of disassembly eventually reduce their Global Warming Potential (GWP). We developed a circularity assessment tool that builds upon the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and EC (Embodied Carbon) benchmarking tools and is established to quantify the environmental potential of flexibility and circularity. It is based on building modules and their embodied materials. The workflow proposes to capture both the positive impact of using recycled materials and to track the re-use of modules within a building during its service lifetime. It does so by correlating predictive demographic models on changing occupation demand patterns with either re-built or re-used partition modules that would accommodate these changes.
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