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As his one-year position as project assistant comes to a close, we caught up with David Sindelar to reflect on his time within the Sustainable Built Environments (SBE) research area.

Last week, a few of us attended the third Swedish Circular Economy colloquium that took place in Gothenburg. It was great to see more people coming from different industries and backgrounds, all focused on the same idea.

This week, we talk with Janne, a visiting masters student at the Sustainable Built Environments research area at Chalmers University. Janne is currently completing his MSc in Integrated Building Systems at ETH Zürich and joined the team through an IDEA League research exchange.

This week, we talk with Claudio, an alumnus of the Sustainable Built Environments research area at Chalmers University, whose PhD and postdoc work on building stock modeling (BSM) laid the foundation for his current venture, SINOM.

This week, we had the pleasure of speaking with Maud Lanau, a fellow SBE researcher whose work is shaping the future of sustainable built environments. Maud’s work at the intersection of industrial ecology and circular economy aims to reduce the environmental impact of buildings and infrastructure by focusing on material stocks, flows, and the life cycle of construction materials.

This week, we sat down with Sara Abouebeid and David Sindelar, two of our project assistants in the Sustainable Built Environments research group, to learn more about their work, research experiences, and perspectives on sustainability.

This week we sat down with Alexander Hollberg, the Research Area Leader for Sustainable Built Environments, to discuss his current projects, research achievements, and insights for early-career researchers.

We sat down with Toivo to speak about his recent research visit at SEED, KTH. His work focuses on bridging the gap between building-level LCA approaches and the strategic environmental work needed at the city and regional levels.

We recently caught up with Xinyue about her research visit at the University of Washington. During her stay, she explored innovative machine learning methods to enhance building sustainability—not only in terms of energy efficiency but also in indoor air quality and urban energy dynamics.

Congratulations to Shuang Wang on successfully defending her Licentiate thesis titled: “Characterizing the construction sector’s potential as secondary plastic provider.” Her research focuses on the circularity of plastics in the construction sector, a critical area for sustainability in the built environment.