Circular Economy of Advanced Prefabricated Buildings
Access Status
Open access
Date
2022Supervisor
Heap-Yih (John) Chong
Roberto Minunno
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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Humanities
School
School of Design and the Built Environment
Collection
Abstract
This PhD documents the design, construction and assessment of a Circular economy building: The Legacy Living Lab. L3 is now an operational Curtin University - off campus - building located in Fremantle and it leading the field in circular economy in construction by incorporating 28 industry partners to merge industry academia and society. The results of this PhD include a circular economy index and seven peer reviewed publications.
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