Circular Building Products for a Sustainable Built Environment
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- Develop strategies for circular building product development.
- Evaluate the key parameters needed to make building products circular and assess how they can influence the shift from Linear to Circular Economy in the built environment.
- Analyze different types of circular business models and establish the connection between the different actors.
- Use systems thinking in implementing the transition to circular building products, including technical and operational issues.
Start date Mar 4, 2026
€ 975,-
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Feb 25, 2026 - Location Online - Pacing Instructor-paced - Length
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5 Weeks - Effort 4 - 5 Hours per week
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Be a frontrunner in circular building product development. Learn best practices and how to create value for your company in the transition to a Circular Economy.
Building products are the basic components of the built environment. They play a crucial role in the transition from the Linear to a Circular Economy. In this course you will discover the opportunities that circular building products can offer. You will investigate them from various perspectives: design, technology, business case and methods of implementation (including, among others, digital product tracking).
This course is suitable for architects, product designers, managers, supply chain actors and other professionals working towards the development of future products used to create sustainable, circular buildings. The course will provide you with a theoretical framework, the terminology used in the sector and real examples of circular solutions in terms of architectural product design. It will use real world case studies and provide you with the tools to create new products and business models, and help you to fully understand the complexity of the task and are able to judge existing circular approaches. Ultimately, it will teach you how circular products are the result of systems thinking and interdisciplinary approaches and will thus help you design and develop new circular building products and processes for your organization.
The objective of the course is for you to apply the Circular Building Products (CBP) methodology step-by-step, as you transform a product of your choice. Each week, you'll dive into a different aspect of CBP, with assignments that challenge you to put circular principles into action.
Throughout the course, you’ll receive ongoing support from the experts. You’ll have the opportunity to meet with instructors weekly in live online webinars. These sessions are designed to provide you with personalized feedback on your assignments, as well as a chance to discuss your thoughts, ask questions, and reflect on the key topics covered each week.
What makes this course stand out is its hands-on approach. You’ll collaborate with fellow learners using Miro, a creative platform where you’ll work together on group projects and activities. Setting up a Miro account and engaging with it will be key to making the most of this experience and ensuring your success in the course.
TU Delft's Circular Built Environment hub has designed and developed this course working with leading industry and research partners, to achieve a higher level of applicability and relevance. Through our long-term collaboration with professionals in the field of building product development, we are able not only to identify the urgent need for circular solutions in the industry, but also to explore best-practice examples. - Details
##### Course Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction
You will learn what a Circular Building Product is and will be able to reflect on the incentives for developing such products following the Circular Economy principles.
Topics covered in the week are:
- Building products from materials to assemblies
- The shift from Linear to Circular Economy and the implications for product development
- The vocabulary of circularity and parameters related to Circular Building Products
- The materials – biological vs. technical materials, critical materials
Week 2: Design and Technology
You will learn how to identify the impact of the choice of materials for building products. At the end of the week, you will be able to distinguish between the different circularity strategies (the R strategies) and determine which are most relevant for circular building product development. The week will cover the following topics:
- Ways to calculate the impact of materials in products
- Connection with the Circular Economy strategies (the Rs)
- Circularity principles in building product development – connections, modularity, material selection, design and decision-making process
- Life-cycle analysis (LCA) for building products
Week 3: Business and Stakeholders
During this week you will learn about the soft side: development of building products is not simply a hardware issue. The success of a circular product depends not only on the design but on business aspects as well. The main topics discussed are:
- The lifecycle of a building product and its management through the whole lifespan
- Stakeholder roles, challenges and values during the lifecycle of a product.
- Enable business model circularity by integrating the Rs. How can products be incorporated into a circular context to increase the lifespan and maintain value?
- Residual value of a product – Developing business models which can capture the residual value of the products and their materials
Week 4: Implementation
During week 4 you will learn how digital technologies enhance circularity and what this means for a company's operations. The focus is on the importance of social awareness and the legal framework. The main topics discussed during the week are:
- Role of Circular Economy development for company operations
- Using digital technologies to enhance the circularity of building products
- The influence of legal and regulatory framework on the circularity transition
- Mindset and awareness for the application of Circular Building Products
Week 5: Circular Building Product Development
During the last week of the course you will learn how to evaluate whether a building product is circular or not. You will be able to reflect on the bigger picture and the limitations of the Circular Economy and its relation to sustainability. The topics discussed during the week are:
- Summary the Circular Building Product development process
- Critical evaluation of the circularity of building products
- Limitations of the Circular Economy concept and its connection to sustainability
### Other instructors:
Anne van Stijn and Bas Jansen, doctoral researchers at Delft University of Technology - Admission
This course is primarily geared towards working professionals. - Qualifications
##### Certificates and CEUs
The TU Delft Extension School offers Continuing Education Units for this course. Participants who successfully complete the course requirements will earn a Certificate of Completion and are eligible to receive 2.5 Continuing Education Units (2.5 CEUs).
##### Chartered Engineering Competences
All our online courses and programs have been matched to the competences determined by KIVI’s Competence Structure, a common frame of reference for everyone, across all disciplines, levels and roles.
These competences apply to this course:
- A1: Extend your theoretical knowledge of new and advancing technologies.
- B2: Conduct appropriate research, and undertake design and development of new and creative engineering solutions.
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E3: Undertake engineering activities in a way that contributes to sustainable development and a circular economy.
- Contact
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The content of this course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to Continuing Professional Development principles. If you successfully complete this course you can store your Continuing Professional Development on myCPD Portal.\
What our learners say about us
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It does give a holistic understanding and base for a critical point of view which is what I was looking for.
Gina Urazan Razzani - Spain
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