Circular City – Call for 4 applications: PhD Positions

Circular City

A project in the Interdisciplinary Sustainable Initiatives at NTNU


Call for applications: 4 PhD positions

Application deadline has expired.

Circular City

About the project

About the project

The Circular City project is an interdisciplinary collaboration to better understand the role of existing buildings as a resource base for a future circular economy. Specifically, the project aims to develop the necessary quantified models, qualitative approaches, domain knowledge and methods to develop a Circular City Information Infrastructure (CCII) that details the quantities, qualities and potential of materials and building elements at a large scale. Through a cooperation of research teams from architecture, planning, structural engineering, geography, manufacturing, and industrial ecology, Circular City will provide plausible pathways to a circular low-carbon building stock. Circular City is at this stage announcing the call for 4 PhD positions. 

More about the project

The joint goal of the PhD positions is to participate in a trans- and interdisciplinary group that will inform circular economy strategies for the built environment. The PhD students will, in cooperation with other project partners, develop novel approaches to circular resource management of the building stock with a higher granularity, including bottom-up data gathering, remote sensing, building information modelling (BIM), structural engineering modelling, and systematic knowledge about architecture and construction technology. The project will be developed using Trondheim and Trøndelag county as case studies, while the approach developed will be generic. 

The project calls for applications for 1-2 PhD positions

  PhD Position in:

Architecture

Department of Architecture and Planning

The PhD candidate in Architecture will in addition explore the preconditions for comprehensive circular building stock analysis, metabolisms and urban mining through studies of historical and contemporary urban patterns, morphologies, typologies, building technology and social structures.

Application deadline has expired.

  PhD Position in:

Industrial Ecology

Department of Energy and Process Engineering

The PhD candidate in Industrial Ecology will describe the composition and the dynamics of the building stock in order to test various circular economy strategies, including the use of novel building designs and building materials and the lifetime extension, reuse and recycling of building components through a dynamic MFA model.

Application deadline has expired.

The project calls for applications for 3-4 PhD positions

  PhD Position in:

Structural Engineering

Department of Structural Engineering

The PhD candidate in Structural Engineering will explore possibilities for the reutilisation of retrieved structural elements and structural material as load bearing parts in new construction, including material testing, quality control, conceptual design and developing tools for back-calculating existing structures.

Application deadline has expired.

  PhD Position in:

Digital Twin

Department of Manufacturing and Civil Engineering

The PhD candidate in Digital Twin will explore the effective and efficient modelling methods on semantic and geometric information of existing buildings, including developing data requirements, collection and processing pathways suitable to generate and validate MFA compatible data efficiently.

Application deadline has expired.