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Keywords
Circular Construction
Digital Product Passports
Building Lifecycle Optimization
AI-Driven Decision Support
Modular and Reusable Components
Digital Twin
The project in a nutshell
- Project title: Circular REDesign for a Resource-efficient, Innovative, and Transformative Built Environment
- Project acronym: CRedIBlE
- Funding programme: Horizon Europe
- Funding agency: CINEA — European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
- Timeline: 01/10/2025 – 30/09/2029 (48 months)
CRedIBlE accelerates circular construction by building an interoperable digital ecosystem that connects Building Information Modeling (BIM), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Digital Twin technologies, and AI-driven analytics. The goal is to enable data-driven decisions for design, adaptability, reuse, and deconstruction across the whole building lifecycle—reducing waste, minimizing embodied carbon, and increasing the recovery of components and materials.
The project delivers practical tools and methods that make circularity actionable for architects, engineers, industry and policymakers:
- AI-powered decision support for material reuse, modular construction, and renovation planning.
- Digital Product Passports for traceability, embodied-carbon reporting, and regulatory alignment.
- BIM–LCA integration and Digital Twin–based monitoring for real-time sustainability assessment.
- Modular, disassemblable components and a marketplace for secondary materials and systems (e.g., HVAC, PV).
- Policy framework, training, and standardized guidelines to support large-scale adoption across Europe.
Who we are
The project is coordinated and managed by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU).
The consortium includes a total of 18 organisations from 9 countries, spanning universities, businesses and city municipalities.
Full list of partners
- KTU — Kauno Technologijos Universitetas (Lithuania)
- CERTH — Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (Greece)
- CORE IC — Core Kentro Kainotomias AMKE (Greece)
- IRIS — IRIS Technology Solutions, S.L. (Spain)
- POLIMI — Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
- STATICUS — Staticus UAB (Lithuania)
- FIBRAN — FIBRAN Insulating Materials Industry D. Anastasiadis SA (Greece)
- EUPHYIA — Euphyia Tech Ltd (Cyprus)
- OPSIS — OPSIS Research SRL (Romania)
- INNOTROPE — Innotrope SAS (France)
- MIW — My Energia Oner SL (Spain)
- MUR — Ayuntamiento de Murcia (Spain)
- COMILLAS — Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Spain)
- IEECP — Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy Stichting (Netherlands)
- Wider SA (Switzerland, associated partner)
- EPIQR Renovation SARL (Switzerland, associated partner)
- ESTIA SA (Switzerland, associated partner)
- Ville de Vevey (Switzerland, associated partner)
Press releases
We have not issued press releases yet. We will do it in our major project milestones. They will be available here. We expect our key achievement to be as following:
First prototype of BIM–LCA integration tool
Integration of material data into Digital Product Passports
Integration of all digital tools into a unified ecosystem
First real-world testing of digital tools at pilot sites
First evaluation of material reuse and CO₂-reduction impact
Evaluation and refinement of digital tools based on user feedback
Media kit
Project summary (PDF document)
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