REUSE Circular Stories: Patrick Lenaers, a structural engineering perspective

Scouting-Harvesting-Storing
Designing from/for reuse
Engineering
Testing
Insuring
Certifying
Leading the REUSE transition

Patrick Lenaers has been a structural engineer at IMd Raadgevende Ingenieurs in Rotterdam since 2020. Over the past five years, he has worked on a wide range of projects, including new structural designs, renovations, the successful application of reused structural materials, and various technical innovations. In this video, Patrick emphasizes the importance of designing intelligently and adaptively, allowing materials to be reused again in future projects rather than locking them into a single use. By simply applying reused materials in real projects, he argues, reuse becomes more widespread, practical, and accessible for future clients.

A structural engineering perspective

Author

Kim Sinnige
Kim Sinnige
Architect

Ir. Kim Sinnige has been working for the Circular Impulse Initiative within the CBE Hub since 2022. She graduated cum laude from the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft in 2023. Her master thesis explored the embedding of circular values into a Waste-to-Energy plant through storytelling, Material Flow Analysis and design. She completed her bachelor with honors at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Eindhoven in 2018. Between her degrees, she has worked in architecture offices in Utrecht and Arctic Norway.

Circularity for Educators

The platform is intended to provide with content on either circularity or pedagogy for and about circularity. It is one of the outcomes of the Circular Impulse Initiative (CII), a project intending to enhance the integration of circularity in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment education. The platform mainly aims to help tutors get better acquainted with circularity in the built environment by providing a series of resources on this subject that they can either view to get better informed or directly share with their students in class or online. A large number of the Faculty's professors and researchers have contributed substantially both in creating a coherent narrative for circularity in the built environment as well as further elaborating on different aspects of it. Besides this one, a new platform for interaction and direct exchange was also established in parallel that we call ‘Educators for Circularity‘. This one offers the opportunity for all of us to meet and share our experiences and learn from one another.

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