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Cornell's Circular Construction Lab Champions Building-Material Reuse
Metropolis Magazine: Founded by Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, the lab is exploring ways to construct buildings for easy disassembly so that their materials can be reused in new projects.
Building a Circular Construction Industry with Felix Heisel
The Capitol Pressroom: Architecture Assistant Professor and Director of the Circular Construction Lab Felix Heisel discusses changes to the building process that limit the carbon footprint and waste produced by construction and demolition.
8/20 Felix Heisel and the Circular Construction Lab: Circulating Matters 2
After being displayed initially at the 2022 Cornell Biennial, this installation has been deconstructed, redesigned, and reassembled for its new location at Art Omi, following its design for disassembly principles.
Circular Construction Lab Wins Zumbtobel Group Special Prize for Innovation
The prize goes to the Department of Architecture's Circular Construction Lab, led by Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, and research partners in the development of the RhinoCircular software tool.
Circular Construction Lab
Felix HeiselActivates research to shift material consumption toward a circular model for designing and building a sustainable, low / no-carbon construction industry.
Why a Successful Circular Economy Requires Action Now
EY Global: Hear Felix Heisel, Architecture Assistant Professor and Director of the Circular Construction Lab, discuss why the circular economy is ideal for the construction industry with EY Global.
9/9–10/31 Felix Heisel + Circular Construction Lab: Circulating Matters
Explore this outdoor installation which directly reuses materials from the deconstruction of a residential structure slated for demolition, reactivating the material qualities and values of the building for the construction of this new project.
EPA Selects Cornell AAP's Circular Construction Lab (CCL) for $2.5M Funding to Boost Building Material Reuse
The CCL at AAP, directed by Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, and their project partners have been selected for a $2.5M EPA grant to develop a process that combines robust Environmental Product Declarations for salvaged materials with Material Passporting to support the adoption of material reuse practices by the AEC industry at scale.
Jennifer Minner
Jennifer Minner, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She directs the Just Places Lab, a platform for research and creative action on how communities care for, preserve, reuse, repair, remember, and imagine places. Minner's research investigates urban change and memory in a variety of contexts and media, from research on building circular cities through preservation and material reuse, to the spatial footprints and social legacies of mega-events (e.g., World Expos and the Olympic Games), to future land use scenarios and spatial analytics, to the reflections of the city in art and film. Minner cofounded the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) network...
Break it Down: CR0WD Task Force Forges Zero Waste Goals
CR0WD, a Cornell-powered, community-led task force works with New York State communities to promote thoughtful building deconstruction and highlight the environmental, cultural, and, economic value of salvage, reuse, and closed material flows.
