PACER NWA.1432.20.003 Collaborative, Digitized and Integral Processes to Achieve Circular and Emission-Free Renovation

Renovation projects are complex and multi-objective design challenges, that are characterized by intensive decision-making and organizational activities concerning a building’s future. Such projects uniquely connect a variety of otherwise fragmented disciplines. Crucial for fostering more circular renovation practices with lower emissions is the availability of accurate, timely and concise information on supply chains and material flows and optimal design strategies which take into account multiple perspectives of value creation from different stakeholders. This is what PACER (Collaborative, Digitized and Integral Processes to Achieve Circular and Emission-Free Renovation) will provide by developing collaborative, digitized and integral processes and tools and legal and economic frameworks to achieve circular and emission free renovation practices. We aim for the following breakthroughs: in (WP1) Information gathering, measurement and evaluation of renovation strategies through a new expanded design decision support tool (expanded ‘Renovatieverkenner’) to enable well informed choices and weighing of composition of strategies based on a broad range of values; in (WP2) based on clustering and big data analysis, a framework of renovation design strategies that is up-scalable and standardizable; in (WP3) new data-driven processes to connect the design life-cycle stage with demolition by providing digital matchmaking methods; and in (WP4) legal and economic frameworks and conditions for collaboration which foster successful cooperation in the whole value chain for circular and emission-free renovation processes. The housing stock of a group of 12 housing associations in the Amsterdam region (400.000+ units) serves as a case study. Amongst others, living laps, Conference of Practices (CoP) and in-depth interviews will be used. Monthly meetings with our co-operation partners, representing the key stakeholders in the circular renovation chain will be used to test and validate assumptions. The (provisional) findings will be broadly discussed with external actors of a circular renovation value chain ensuring upscalability of the results from project level to sector level.