LTH profile area Circular Building Sector is pleased to invite you to the first ever Circular Building Sector Conference to be held 1-3 June 2025 in Lund, Sweden! We welcome academics, practitioners and educators from the wide field of the built environment with an interest in circular economy.

The conference aims to contribute to new knowledge on circular solutions and approaches, bridging the gap between industry and academia. We welcome submissions within topics related to circularity in the building sector, including but not limited to:

• Circular materials and components e.g. reused or recycled materials and components, biobased materials
• Circular design and buildings e.g. design-for-disassembly, design-for-circularity
• Circular use and business models e.g. shared use, multifunctional use, temporary use, product-service systems, as-a-service business models
• Circularity in higher education e.g. circularity in existing curricula, development of new programs, alignment with industry needs

Please submit your abstract to abstract@cbsc2025.se by 30 September 2024. Please limit your abstract to 250 words, using the following structure:

• Background and aim 
• Methods and data
• Findings
• Theoretical/practical/societal implications. 

We offer the possibility to present both abstracts and full papers. The full papers will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. The conference proceedings will include all accepted full papers. The proceedings will be published Open Access and issued a digital object identifier (DOI) as well as an ISBN/ISSN number. 

Conference Program (draft) 

Please note that the program is preliminary and subject to change. The early-bird conference fee is planned to be 7 000 SEK, including welcome reception, conference sessions, site visit, dinner, lunch, and coffee. PhD students presenting a full paper will receive a 50% discount. 

Conference key dates (deadlines subject to change):