The H2020 CINDERELA Project — A New Circular Economy Business Model for More Sustainable Urban Construction

The municipal sector and different industries, including construction and demolition activities in urban areas, generate waste streams that could provide excellent secondary raw materials (SRM) to replace traditional raw materials in construction applications. The CINDERELA project develops a business model (CinderCEBM) aided by a one-stop-shop (CinderOSS) service to help construction companies increase profit and deliver value by using SRM from urban waste streams in building and civil engineering applications. The model and the platform will be tested in different socio-economic environments to ensure technological, systemic and economic viability across Europe through demonstrations involving manufacturing and construction with the use of SRM-based materials supported by building information modelling (BIM) and advanced solutions combining disruptive technologies (3D printing) and SRM cascading recycling systems (phosphorus extraction from wastewater prior to sewage sludge use in construction)

(Mauko Pranjić, Alenka, Kim Mezga, Primož Oprčkal, Sebastjan Meža, Ana Mladenovič, Izabela Ratman-Kłosińska, Marek Matejczyk, et al. “The H2020 CINDERELA Project — A New Circular Economy Business Model for More Sustainable Urban Construction.” In 2nd International Conference on : Technologies & Business Models for Circular Economy: Conference Proceedings, 211–226. University of Maribor, University Press, 2020; DOI https://doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-353-1.17 )