| Title | Facades-as-a-Service: The Role of Technology in the Circular Servitisation of the Building Envelope |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 23018 |
| Authors | Azcarate-Aguerre, JF; Klein, T; Konstantinou, T; Veerman, M |
| Title | Facades-as-a-Service: The Role of Technology in the Circular Servitisation of the Building Envelope |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Applied Sciences-Basel, 12.0, 3 |
| Abstract | Featured Application The research proposes a strategic path to align future development in facade and facade-integrated technologies with the new economic, legal, and organizational requirements of a more sustainable, circular, and performance-based facade industry. The servitisation of the built environment, through the implementation of product-service systems, is considered a promising business strategy to achieve a circular economy transition. This servitisation faces a number of practical challenges, among them the technological readiness and effective integration and application of existing and emerging products, manufacturing processes, and digital monitoring and management tools. The research builds on targeted literature review, and on a research-through-design approach based on full-scale pilot projects developed in an ongoing feedback loop between researchers, planners, and industry partners representing both the demand and supply sides of the facade industry in the Netherlands. The paper analyses the technical implementation challenges currently preventing the facade industry from adopting performance-based contracts. It then proposes the roles that existing and emerging digital design and engineering technologies, manufacturing processes, and asset management systems can play in the development, implementation, and fulfilment of such contracts. The paper proposes a multi-stakeholder, systemic model for the development and application of facade technologies capable of overcoming many of the technical implementation barriers to the delivery of performance-based contracts for integrated facades. From this it concludes that an effective development of building technologies should strategically align with the solving of economic and contractual challenges such as circularity-readiness, profitability, risk distribution, legal demarcation, performance monitoring, and residual value stewardship. The resulting framework provides a strategic and conceptual basis for the development of circularity-enabling facade technologies, accounting for the diverse and sometimes conflicting interests of the multitude of stakeholders involved throughout a project's lifecycle. The framework aims to support planners, manufacturers, and builders accelerate the circular deep energy renovation of the built environment while also exploring new business opportunities. |
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