On 7 November 2025, the bridgeUkraine.org team took part in the international workshop “Integrating Digital Transformation and Circular Economy for Decarbonised Construction & Deconstruction Waste Diversion” at Brunel University London. The event was organised within the project “Towards a Circular Nexus: Establishing 3D-IN (Data-Driven Deconstruction International Network)” in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Melbourne, Concordia University, Loughborough University and the University of Transport and Communications.
BridgeUkraine was represented by Dariia Berestok and Shchasiana Arhun, who delivered the presentation “bridgeUkraine Initiative: Recovery, Reconstruction, Resilience”, highlighting how circularity is linked to resilience and the reconstruction of Ukrainian infrastructure.
The workshop showcased a wide range of international and interdisciplinary perspectives on Circular Economy in C&D waste valorisation, including: data-sharing networks for the built environment (Karim Farghaly); India’s Waste-to-Sand practice (Manish Bhartia); the carbon impact of Circular Economy in the EU (Zhikang Bao); retrofit digital twins for decarbonisation in Canada (Mazdak Nik Bakht); IoT applications in infrastructure (Niazy Kioufi); London-based multi-stakeholder decarbonisation projects (Weifeng Chen and colleagues); Circular Economy developments in the UAE (Juan Carlos Flores Lara, Shadeedha Mohamed Saradara, Malik Khalfan); AI for C&D waste management (Lu Gan); and serious gaming approaches for Circular Economy (Zulfikar Adamu).
A central part of the workshop was a focus-group discussion led by project lead M. Reza Hosseini, exploring the “what”, “how” and key challenges of emerging technologies in C&D waste management.
BridgeUkraine would like to express sincere thanks to the networking grant leads, co-hosts, invited speakers, contributors and all participants – both in-person and online – as well as to the project 3D-IN and its supporters (The Academy of Medical Sciences, The British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, The Royal Society and RBKC London) for enabling cross-sector collaboration and connecting researchers at all career stages.