City Shifters

Author: Vineeta Shetty

City Shifters is a podcast produced by The Smart Citizen and explores extraordinary innovation and entrepreneurship that will impact the way our cities evolve and how its citizens interact with each other and their environment. Join us on the journey of exploring the peak of innovation in cities all around the world!
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Resirqel squares the circle of building waste and reuse
Episode 2
Wednesday, 8 January, 2020

In Norway, about 20,000 structures are demolished yearly, and close to 0% of the materials are reused responsibly and reasonably. Surplus material from new buildings are also ground down to burnable material, inflating the carbon footprint of the construction industry. Lasse Kilværs and Martin Eid speak to Smart Citizen Dennis Kristoffer Høier Hoel at Oslo's Vollebekk Fabrikker about their enterprise, Resirqel, which provides advisory and implementing strategies for circularity in the building trade. Local authorities can boost the initiative by demanding a reuse assessment of all buildings destined for disassembly in time to reuse potential products.