Background Reversible building design

BAMB´s mission is to enable the shift to a circular building sector. Refurbishment, maintenance and demolition of buildings create large amounts of waste. Substantial stocks of used building materials are discarded, because it is more expensive or impossible to recover them for re-use with their value intact. Buildings are seldom flexible enough to easily adapt to new requirements. Transformations of building use create considerable amounts of waste and demand of virgin materials, if the building is not designed to accommodate the change.

For effective use of building materials and to facilitate recovery and reuse of components, products or materials in buildings, buildings need to be easily reversible.