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Project Details
Description
CICMA is a synergy between Aalborg University, Department of Materials and Production, and COWI Buildings and Industry. This
unique collaboration leverages the strengths of both entities to address complex sustainability challenges, pushing and innovating the way we are manufacturing materials towards becoming more efficient and circular.
Objectives:
• Potentials: Identify potentials for circularity in construction materials, specifically in integration between the construction sector and the manufacturing sector.
• Barriers: Identify and rank barriers towards taking up circular approaches across the construction sector and the manufacturing sector.
• Tools and Methods: Identify methods and tools that can be adapted across the two sectors, facilitating sectoral integration to increase construction material circularity and identify research needs.
• Circular design concepts: Propose design concepts that incorporate different building material life cycles and different circular material strategies.
unique collaboration leverages the strengths of both entities to address complex sustainability challenges, pushing and innovating the way we are manufacturing materials towards becoming more efficient and circular.
Objectives:
• Potentials: Identify potentials for circularity in construction materials, specifically in integration between the construction sector and the manufacturing sector.
• Barriers: Identify and rank barriers towards taking up circular approaches across the construction sector and the manufacturing sector.
• Tools and Methods: Identify methods and tools that can be adapted across the two sectors, facilitating sectoral integration to increase construction material circularity and identify research needs.
• Circular design concepts: Propose design concepts that incorporate different building material life cycles and different circular material strategies.
Key findings
Expected results:
• Overall aim: CICMa’s overall aim is to contribute to accelerating the shift towards a more sustainable future by enabling all actors within the construction value chain and across the manufacturing and construction sectors to collaboratively develop and implement circular economy practices, strategies, and business models.
• Effect for the society and industry at large: CICMa will be contributing to the to the sustainable and circular transformation of the two involved industries and the society at large. This research project serves as a pre-study for the entire industry, exploring potentials and how to overcome barriers, showing ways to more circular methods of manufacturing building materials.
• Material Innovation: By pushing the boundaries of how we produce building materials, this project aims to drive significant change in the way we are producing materials and constructing our buildings.
• Communication: Ongoing dissemination of the results to the industry through various formats.
• Overall aim: CICMa’s overall aim is to contribute to accelerating the shift towards a more sustainable future by enabling all actors within the construction value chain and across the manufacturing and construction sectors to collaboratively develop and implement circular economy practices, strategies, and business models.
• Effect for the society and industry at large: CICMa will be contributing to the to the sustainable and circular transformation of the two involved industries and the society at large. This research project serves as a pre-study for the entire industry, exploring potentials and how to overcome barriers, showing ways to more circular methods of manufacturing building materials.
• Material Innovation: By pushing the boundaries of how we produce building materials, this project aims to drive significant change in the way we are producing materials and constructing our buildings.
• Communication: Ongoing dissemination of the results to the industry through various formats.
| Acronym | CICMa |
|---|---|
| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 01/09/2025 → 28/02/2026 |
Collaborative partners
- COWI A/S (lead)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Research output
- 1 Report
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The Overlooked Potential of Circularity in Industrial Buildings: Barriers and Potentials for Circular Economy in Industrial Buildings
Mosbech, C., Rouvillian, S., Andersen, A.-L. & Somerset, E. G., 25 Mar 2026Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research