Theodoros Dounas
Non-fungible building components: using smart contracts for a circular economy in the built environment.
Dounas, Theodoros; Jabi, Wassim; Lombardi, Davide
Authors
Wassim Jabi
Davide Lombardi
Contributors
Paula Gomez Z.
Editor
Frederico Braida
Editor
Abstract
The presented research study tackles the topic of economic and material sustainable development in the built environment and construction industry, by introducing and applying the concept and the potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on blockchain within the early stages of the design process via the interface of common design software. We present a digital infrastructure layer for architectural assets and building components that can integrate with AEC supply chains, enabling a more effective and articulated development of circular economies. The infrastructure layer consists of a combination of topology graphs secured with a blockchain. The paper concludes with a discussion about the possibilities of material passports as well as circular economy and smart contracts as an infrastructure for whole lifecycle BIM and digital encapsulation of value in architectural design.
Citation
DOUNAS, T., JABI, W. and LOMBARDI, D. 2021. Non-fungible building components: using smart contracts for a circular economy in the built environment. Blucher design proceedings [online], 9(6): proceedings of the 25th International conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 20201): designing possibilities, 8-12 November 2021, [virtual conference], pages 1189-1198. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5151/sigradi2021-20
Presentation Conference Type | Conference Paper (published) |
---|---|
Conference Name | 25th International conference of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2021): designing possibilities |
Acceptance Date | Sep 8, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 12, 2021 |
Publication Date | Dec 31, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Dec 14, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 14, 2021 |
Journal | Blucher design proceedings |
Print ISSN | 2318-6968 |
Electronic ISSN | 2318-6968 |
Publisher | Blucher |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 1189-1198 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5151/sigradi2021-20 |
Keywords | Non-fungible tokens (NFTs); Blockchain; Supply chain management; Circular economies; Construction industry |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1550487 |
Additional Information | This paper is also included in the full proceedings available from the conference website: https://www.sigradi.org/sigradi2021 |
Files
DOUNAS 2021 Non-fungible building components (VOR)
(1.3 Mb)
PDF
Publisher Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
You might also like
Classification of artificial intelligence techniques for early architectural design stages.
(2024)
Journal Article
Design dimensions for blockchain oracles in the AEC industry.
(2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
What is the potential value of tokens and token engineering for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry? A positional paper.
(2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mass-customisation of dwellings in the Middle East: developing a design-to-fabrication framework to resolve the housing crisis in Saudi Arabia.
(2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Decentralised additive manufacturing for architecture: exploring the integration of distributed ledger technologies with 3D printing.
(2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Downloadable Citations
About OpenAIR@RGU
Administrator e-mail: publications@rgu.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2025
Advanced Search