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Scalable AI-Driven Automation for Visual Lumber Grading
Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab coauthored a publication with Anye Shi, Dan Bergsagel, and Jasper Owen (B.Arch. '26) that demonstrates how AI-driven visual automation can transform lumber grading — enhancing scalability, efficiency, and sustainability across the timber industry.
Are Buildings Designed to Die? How Circular Construction Could Save Our Cities.
Better Buildings for Humans: In the podcast episode for Better Buildings for Humans, Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, Director of Cornell's Circular Construction Lab, explores how designing buildings for disassembly can reduce emissions, conserve resources, and advance a more circular, resilient built environment.
Cornell Atkinson Awards Catalyze Solutions in Food, Climate, Clean Energy
Architecture faculty Felix Heisel, director of the Circular Construction Lab and Faculty Fellow with the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, was recently announced as a 2025 recipient of the Academic Venture Fund at Cornell Atkinson.
Investing in Washington State Changemakers: Meet the 20 Awardees of the AI for Good Lab's Open Call
Circular Construction Lab, directed by Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel, was an awardee of the AI for Good Lab's open call to support innovative AI-based projects. Their project will enable essential technical and methodological support to the circular lumber economy.
These Old Roman Buildings Could Unlock How to Build in a Warming World
The Washington Post: Felix Heisel, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Circular Construction Lab, discusses the benefits of reusing salvaged materials.
Town-Gown Awardees Foster Business, Community, Sustainability
CR0WD receives 14th annual Town-Gown Award; congratulations Circular Construction Lab, Felix Heisel (AAP); Just Places Lab, Jenni Minner (AAP); Susan Christopherson Center for Community Planning, Gretchen Worth (M.A. HPP '20); Preservation Association of Central New York, Andrew Roblee (M.A. HPP '17); Finger Lakes ReUse; and Historic Ithaca.
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.
Building Deconstruction, Reuse Would Benefit NYS Jobs, Climate
Felix Heisel, Architecture Assistant Professor and Director of the Circular Construction Lab (CCL); Jennifer Minner, CRP Associate Professor and Director of the Just Places Lab; and Wyeth Augustine-Marceil, Research Associate in the CCL and Just Places Lab, report that transitioning to a circular construction economy in New York could boost significant economic activity, create thousands of green jobs, and advance climate goals by reusing deconstructed building materials.
Three New Designer-Led Initiatives are Making Circular Economies a Reality
The Architect's Newspaper: Architecture Assistant Professor Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab is harnessing building technology and design to reimagine construction as an ally for regenerative design.
The 2024 Bethel Woods Art and Architecture Festival Invites Students to Build Community, Build Creatively, Build Fest
The Architect's Newspaper: Festival organizer and curator Neal Lucas Hitch (M.S. MDC '24) looks back on BuildFest '24 that featured work by Architecture Lecturer Marta H. Wisniewska's Regenerative Architecture Lab, Assistant Professor of Architecture Felix Heisel's Circular Construction Lab, and Cait McCarthy and Jordan Young (both M.Arch. '20).
