Voluntary product passports with Pedro Mêda
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.