Urban Mining & Material Passports
Treating cities as material banks with formalized deconstruction and reuse workflows.
Urban mining views existing buildings as repositories of valuable materials. Coupled with 'Material Passports' (digital records of component composition and disassembly instructions), this enables high-value recovery of steel, copper, and facade elements, replacing extraction with circular harvesting.
TRL
5/9Validated
Impact
5/5
Investment
3/5
Category
Applications
