Specialists in circular engineering for architecture and construction talk about their research, industry trends, and overcoming challenges for a sustainable built environment.
Product passports are a helpful tool for preserving the identities of building materials and meeting sustainability requirements. But voluntary product passports have unique advantages beyond legal requirements and audits.
Pedro Mêda a civil engineer who works at the Institute for Sustainable Construction and is an invited assistant professor and researcher at the University of Porto, joins Kasimir Forth and Silvia Vangelova from the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture to explore how digital building logbooks and digital product passports could reshape circular construction.
Drawing from two decades of work in academia, policy, and industry, he discusses tensions between technological innovation and industry adoption. He demonstrates how circularity requires changing how the construction sector thinks about responsibility, continuity, and collaboration.
30 Sept 2026
AI and reality capture with Fiona Collins
How can technology help us better understand the built environment? Fiona Collins, Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer at Hexagon, joins Ioanna Mitropoulou, postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture at ETH Zurich, to explore how reality capture, point clouds, and artificial intelligence are reshaping the relationship between the physical and digital worlds. Starting from her background in environmental engineering and sustainability, Collins reflects on how the built environment became the focus of her work — and why bridging the gap between digital models and real-world conditions remains one of the field’s biggest challenges.
The conversation explores how data-driven workflows can support better decision-making across the lifecycle of buildings. Together, they discuss the growing role of AI in processing complex 3D data, the challenges of scaling these technologies in practice, and the evolving relationship between human judgment and machine reasoning in the built environment.
23 Sept 2026
Remote sensing and photogrammetry with Konrad Schindler
Computer vision is reshaping the way we understand the environment around us. Konrad Schindler, professor of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich, joins Ana Bendiek-Laranjo and Deepika Raghu at the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture to discuss how remote sensing and photogrammetry are transforming the way we map, analyze, and interpret the world around us.
From the blurred boundaries between photogrammetry and computer vision to the realities of working with imperfect data, he reflects on both the possibilities and limitations of data-driven approaches. He also differentiates between research and practical applications, and addresses the challenges of putting the growing amount of digital image data to good use.
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