Structural Design for Delayed Obsolescence

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• Corentin Fivet, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC),EPFL
• Friday 31 January 2020, 15:00-16:00
• Seminar Room, Civil Engineering Building, JJ Thomson Avenue 7a..

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Structural designers’ efforts to reduce environmental impacts traditionally consist of developing systems that minimise material quantities or use low-impact materials. A third strategy is currently (re)emerging: the reuse of structural components over multiple service lives and in new layouts. Still in its infancy, this circular economy strategy disrupts structural design practice in many ways: rather than manufacturing components after the design of a system, the system is synthesised from a given stock of reclaimed components; versatility, reversibility and transformability become hard requirements for all loadbearing systems and components; costs, performance and environmental assessments span multiple service lifecycles. There is consequently a sudden lack of expertise, design tools, technological solutions and relevant metrics. This talk reviews recent research developments made by the Structural Xploration Lab (EPFL) in the field.

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