Adaptability in healthcare buildings: a perspective through Joseph Bracops Hospital.

The healthcare sector has to face changes happening fast and often in an unpredictable way, such as epidemiological trends, the advancements of medical technology and processes or evolving social and economic needs. This results in a frequent need for infrastructures' retrofitting, with an increasing focus on the environmental impact of buildings, which have one of the highest embodied carbon footprints per square meter in the construction sector. As result, interest in healthcare buildings' adaptability is growing among researchers and practitioners.

Circular economy in the valorisation of food and other biowaste: case studies in small and medium-sized enterprises in the Belgian construction sector.

The construction sector has significant impacts on the environment due to the consumption of resources and the production of waste. The implementation of circular economy strategies can improve the environmental performance of the sector, optimising the current production and consumption patterns, slowing and closing material loops, and using waste as a source of raw materials. Biowaste represents a key waste flow at the European scale.

The use of urban biowaste and excavated soil in the construction sector: A literature review.

Soil has been used as building material for thousands of years with a decrease in popularity after the industrial revolution. Nowadays, there is a growing interest in the implementation of unfired soil-based building solutions for their low environmental impact, performances and availability. Traditional soil construction techniques have recurrently included vegetal fibres to enhance soil performance and recent studies highlight a predominant use of agro- and non-agro-waste for unfired soil construction.