Paper Applying a multi-cycle life cycle assessment framework to circular office tables and partition walls - VITO

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Buildings are among the largest consumers of resources and emitters of CO₂ in the EU, yet they also hold great potential for circular solutions. This study applies the Drastic multi-cycle sustainability assessment framework to two Flemish Living Lab MASCO case studies: remanufactured office tables by NNOF and demountable wall systems by JUUNOO.

The results show that circular strategies such as reuse and remanufacturing can reduce environmental impacts by 55–66% for furniture and 60% for wall systems compared to business-as-usual construction.

This paper has been written by researchers of VITO and has been published after presentation at the International Conference on Circularity in the Built Environment (16-18 September 2025) in Tampere, Finland.