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Dear readers,

Welcome back to the RECONSTRUCT newsletter!

In this issue, you will find:

News from our recent consortium meeting in Brussel for the Review meeting
Interview with Mina Najafi about the recent publication with colleagues Farzad Rahimian, Yasmine Zaki Abdelaziz, Jeroen Poppe and Sergio Rodriguez Trejo
Updates on the activities with sister projects in the CircHub cluster
Events we attended and news from the sector
Link to webinars, resources and to the Digital Stakeholder Platform

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Thank you,

The RECONSTRUCT communication team

Project updates

Turning construction waste into circular value: RECONSTRUCT progress update

June 25, 2026

On 16 and 17 June, the RECONSTRUCT consortium gathered in Brussels for two key project milestones: the Review Meeting with the European Commission and the project’s General Assembly.

New publications

If Circular Construction makes so much sense, why isn’t everyone doing it?

A new study emerging from the RECONSTRUCT project set out to answer an apparently simple question: if circular construction offers clear benefits, why does the construction industry still struggle to…

CircHub Joint Activities

July 6, 2026

Building Europe’s circular future: research meets policy

Innovative bio-based and circular construction materials are no longer a vision for the future. Across Europe, researchers and industry are proving that they can work. So why aren't they everywhere?

April 8, 2026

Advancing circular construction: RECONSTRUCT at the CircHub joint workshop in Naples

On 5 March 2026, RECONSTRUCT joined fellow CircHub projects at a joint workshop on Sustainable & Energy-Efficient Building Materials in Naples, Italy.

Interview at CircHub joint workshop

Yasmine Zaki Abdelaziz, Social Innovation Officer at ICONS, represents RECONSTRUCT and its approaches, and shares the value of collaboration within the CircHub cluster.

Other events we attended

NextBuilt 2026

Bologna, 5 June 2026

DPP4EU 2026

Brussel, 1-3 June 2026

News from the sector

Europe Steps Up Its Bioeconomy Ambitions: What It Means for RECONSTRUCT

The European Commission has just released a major new Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy, setting out how Europe plans to accelerate the shift away from fossil-based…

Resources

Webinar “New Sustainable Concretes and Precast Elements: Trends and Real Cases” (in Spanish) available on YouTube

Our platform is live

RECONSTRUCT Digital Stakeholder Platform is a space designed to facilitate connection, collaboration, and knowledge exchange around circular and low-carbon construction.