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Lunch & Learn 2026: Designing Buildings as Reusable Assets (Lessons from Circular Modular Construction Across Europe and Asia)

What If Buildings Were Designed as Reusable Assets?

Most construction today still follows a largely linear model:

Design → Build → Use → Demolish → Waste

Buildings are often delivered as one-off projects with limited adaptability, difficult reuse, and fragmented supply chains.

But as the industry moves towards lower-carbon construction and circularity, a different approach is emerging – one that treats buildings as long-term reusable assets rather than disposable products.

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Why Attend

In this Lunch & Learn, Dr Renee Puusepp will share practical insights from circular modular construction projects and digital building system development across Europe and Asia.

Drawing on real-world case studies from Estonia, Germany, and South Korea, the session will explore how:

    Design for Disassembly and Adaptability (DfDA)
    Modular construction systems
    Digital integration and interoperable supply chains can support more adaptable, reusable, and lower-carbon buildings at industry scale.

The discussion will also examine what these lessons could mean for Ireland’s growing ambitions around timber construction and offsite manufacturing.

What You’ll Learn

    Why many modular buildings are not truly circular
    How Design for Disassembly (DfDA) supports long-term reuse and adaptability
    The role of digital workflows in connecting architects, suppliers, and manufacturers
    How interoperable product ecosystems can improve circularity at scale
    What Ireland can learn from international leaders in timber and modular construction

Speaker
Dr Renee Puusepp

Dr Renee Puusepp is the founder of Creatomus Solutions and a Senior Researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts / Timber Architecture Research Centre PAKK.

His work focuses on modular construction, circular building systems, digital supply-chain integration, and industrialised timber construction. Over the past decade, he has worked across both research and industry to develop adaptable modular systems, configurable design platforms, and practical Design for Disassembly approaches.

His experience spans public buildings, educational facilities, manufacturer-integrated digital tools, and international modular construction ecosystems.

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