REUSE Circular Stories: Peter Mooij, a material matchmaking perspective

Peter Mooij is a strategic advisor and digital product manager at Stichting Insert in the Netherlands, where he helps advance circular economy initiatives in the built environment. In his role at Insert, he focuses on developing digital tools and services that connect stakeholders, facilitate high-level reuse of construction materials, and support sustainable building practices. In this video, Peter discusses how circular construction requires a shift in mindset, where designers and builders must work with what is already available rather than starting from scratch. He emphasizes the importance of flexibility in design, as reused materials often come with limitations that can also become sources of creativity. Ultimately, he highlights collaboration and early decision-making as key factors in successfully integrating reuse into construction projects.

A material matchmaking 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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