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The Super Circular Estate project will test new circular economy processes aimed
at 100% reusing, repairing and recycling of the materials acquired from the
demolition of an outdated social housing building. The project will experiment
with and evaluate innovative reuse techniques for decomposing a high-rise tunnel
formwork concrete building in Kerkrade. The demolition materials will be used
to build 4 pilot housing units with 5 different reuse/recycle techniques to be
compared in order to assess their viability and replicability. Besides the project
will experiment with innovative techniques for water reuse in a social housing
context by testing closed water cycle. Social tenants will be strongly involved in
the co-design, operation and monitoring of new collaborative economy services/
facilities (aiming at reducing the need for vehicles, tools, spaces etc.) to support
the transition towards a sharing, reuse and repair community model.
