Bodø (Norway)

Bodø’s work in CityLoops was done in the context of the major urban development project: ‘New Airport / New City’. An old military airport is being demolished and a new part of the city will be built in the area cleared. In another area, a new airport will be built. Bodø’s demonstration actions focused on encouraging the circular reuse and repurposing of construction & demolition waste (CDW), as well as citizen and stakeholder participation. They included embedding circular management processes in the demolition of the city's militariy airport, establishing a practice of stakeholder and citizen engagement in city development and embedding circular strategies in the panning of the new city district. CityLoops gave the city a great opportunity to influence the material and mass handling of the process, leading less waste, more reuse and repurposing of structures. More information about Bodø’s's results in CityLoops can be found in the demonstration report and urban circularity assessment below.

CDW Demonstration Report

Urban Circularity Assessment

Further publications

Construction and Demolition Waste

Demonstration action 1: Demolition of the military airport with circular material management

Overview

The 5,000,000 m² land currently occupied by the air-force has to be cleaned up regarding soil, construction materials and other infrastructure. The focus of the work was on maximising the repurposing of existing structures, and selective demolition and reuse of construction materials where this is not possible.

Implementation

Mapping of structures and materials on site, and assessment of quality and pollution
Screening of structures and buildings to identify recycling/reuse potential
Establishment of intermediate storage and treatment facilities for CDW
Transformation of structures where possible; selective demolition, storage and treatment of recovered materials where not possible

Relevant instruments

Demonstration action 2: Involving stakeholders and citizens in city development using innovative tools

Overview

Bodø involved professional stakeholders (e.g. construction consultants, entrepreneurs, architects) and citizens closely in the ‘New Airport / New City’ transformation project – to engage in dialogue on how to repurpose and prolong the lifetime of existing buildings and materials when designing the new city, as well as technical dialogue on practices of screening and selective demolition.

Implementation

Citizens were involved and activated via CityLab
CityLab was hosted both physically at the town hall and virtually
The platform incorporates a 3D visualisation of Bodø, showing different visions of the future city development
The visualisation also displays sustainability indicators – to help stimulate imagination and opinions

Relevant instruments

Demonstration action 3: Embedding circular strategies into the planning of a new city district

Overview

This demonstration action focused on the internal processes and plans within Bodø municipality for circular city planning – addressing questions such as: How is the new city part going to look, and how can it be built in a circular way? What plans, tools and procedures do we need in the municipality to enable the development?

Implementation

Environmental Program was created and manifested for the new city district development policies for the four categories: nature conservation, mass handling, circular treatment of materials, and energy efficiency
All of the new city district is to be developed after circular economy principles, such as the reuse of materials and masses in constructions and design for dissassembly
Implementation of circularity principles in the tender for the demolition of a school
Development of soil strategy

Relevant instruments

Bodø (Norway)

Further publications

Construction and Demolition Waste

Demonstration action 1: Demolition of the military airport with circular material management

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