Soft Technologies for the Circular Transition: Practical Experimentation of the Product “Material Passport”
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The change of mind regarding waste conceived as resource is possible if the transition toward circularity is actualized. Design and build in a reversible perspective allow to enable circular strategies on a constructive system at the end of its service life. These strategies and solutions toward reversibility are defined Hard and Soft Technologies. If the first ones are the reversible constructive technics used on different elements of the building; the second ones consist in the operative aspects, regarding to tools and methods that allow the realization of reversible processes, projects and products. Specifically, the MP is a Soft Technology that facilitates the second use of a constructive systems that has residual performances once disassembled. As tool, the Material Passport collects the technical and operative information about the product, tracing the resources employed, maintaining their value over time and reducing the grade of uncertain about the circular potentiality of disassembled elements. The paper demonstrates the importance of Soft Technologies for the development of Hard Technologies and reports the outcomes of a practical experimentation developed. The application consists in the development of the Material Passport of a product of the manufacturing company Cel Components and in the definition of reversible practices for the generation of the circular transition of the company. The MP is processed within the BIM model of a company-produced panel, used for façade, false ceiling, internal partition or flooring systems, to elaborate a framework for the data entry. The application provides a user-friendly framework for designers and manufacturers.
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The review found that a largely referenced issue is that material passports need to integrate within existing databases such as BIM models, geographic information systems, and LCA data.
“A largely referenced issue is that MPs need to integrate within existing databases such as BIM models, geographic information systems, and LCA data”
From Digital material passports in the AEC industry: a scoping review and conceptualisation of future research challenges (2025) · cites this paper as Caroli, 2023
Section 40.3.1 says material passports should be supported by BIM software to add information to an existing product model, and section 40.4.2 describes doing so in Revit. The paper does not identify integration with geographic information systems or LCA data as a need, nor establish that this is a largely referenced issue. The Conclusion mentions Life Cycle Costing, which is not LCA data. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Caroli, T.
- Affiliations
- Politecnico di Milano (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Caroli, Tecla
- ORCID
- Caroli, Tecla
- Venue
- The Urban Book Series
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 439-448
- ISSN
- 2365-757X (ISSN-L)
- 2365-7588
- OpenAlex
- W4382723439
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2
- FWCI
- 2.44
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The urban book series (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Università degli Studi di Milano
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › BIM and Construction Integration
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Design and Development
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Keywords
- material passports, soft technology, circular economy, reversible design, disassembly, building information modeling, product data management
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