REUSE Circular Stories: Rick Knuffman, a project leadership perspective.

Since 2022, Rick Knuffman has been working at the Rotterdam Municipal Engineering Department as a project manager in the preparation and implementation of municipal real estate with high sustainability ambitions. This includes new construction and repurposing projects for concert halls, museums, schools, and monuments owned by Rotterdam. Process and content coordination make up the majority of his daily responsibilities, but thanks to his experience as an architect, he also enjoys contributing ideas about the design and setting ambitions. In this video, Rick explains how REUSE projects differ from conventional construction, as many uncertainties can only be resolved during the process, making flexibility and learning by doing essential. He believes that circular and reuse-based projects will eventually become cheaper to build than using new materials, provided that clients take the initiative to support reuse practices.

A project leadership 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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