Healthy, Circular Buildings in One Day: From Principles to Practice.

Join the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute’s team and event host Steelcase for a half-day workshop focused on the knowledge and tools necessary for realizing healthy, circular building projects. Created for architects, owners, developers, and other sustainability professionals, this workshop will help you operationalize Material Heath as a foundational precursor to the circular economy in the built environment. You’ll explore the world of materials and regenerative design from molecule to the metropolis as we consider approaches to creating projects with disassembly, reuse and recovery and a positive impact in mind.

Led by international industry leaders, a variety of presentations and interactive discussions will provide a clear framework to accelerate the achievement of sustainability, well-being and circularity goals. You will also discover a portfolio of tools and resources that can help you translate new concepts into active practice right away.

The Program:

1:00pm – Registration

1:30 pm – Start Workshop - Welcome ( Steelcase)

1:35 pm – Icebreaker (Kay Killman, GBCI Europe)

1:50 pm – Presentation: Material Health & Circularity in the Built Environment: A Toxicological Perspective (Thijs Maartens, C2CPII)

2:20 pm – Panel Discussion: The Triple Win of Product Optimization (Multiple Speakers)

3:00 pm – BREAK

3:30 pm – Specifying for Healthy, Sustaianble Materials: From Theory to Practice (GIGA, UL)

4:00 pm – Circuarity: Lessons Learned and Call to Action (Arup)

4:30 pm – Health & Wellbeing at the Building Level & WELL v2 (Victoria Lockhart, IWBI)

5:00 pm – Q&A (All)

5:15 pm – Drinks/Reception & Optional Tour of Steelcase Learning and Innovation Centre

6:30 pm – End

Who is involved?

Sponsors: Accoya, Armstrong Ceilings, MechoSystems, Mosa, Shaw, Steelcase, Tarkett

Partners: Arup, GBCI Europe, GIGA, International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), UL

Want to be a part of the movement to co-create a positive future? Join us in September or contact Thijs Maartens for information on how to get involved.

About Built Positive

Built Positive is a co-creative movement, formed by the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, to increase the built environment’s positive impact on people, planet, and economy by designing materials and products for circularity, innovating to improve these inputs, and quantifying their positive impact from the molecule through to the metropolis