Reuse as everyday business with Andreas Oefner
What would it take to make building with reused materials as simple as building with new ones? Andreas Oefner, managing director of Zirkular GmbH, joins Mikhael Johanes from the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture to discuss how circular construction depends not only on materials, but on rethinking entire processes. Drawing from his background in architectural drafting and history, he reflects on how technical knowledge and systems thinking can come together in the challenge of scaling reuse.
At the center of the conversation is Planular, the digital platform developed by Zirkular to organize material inventories, connect donor and receiving projects, and coordinate reuse — revealing that one of the biggest barriers to circular construction is not a lack of reusable materials, but the difficulty of connecting buildings, components, and people within the same process.