Drastic’s Spanish Demonstrator has been hard at work in recent months, using its first phase of development to test both steel and concrete products aimed at increasing circularity and reducing carbon emissions across the European built environment.

Welcome to the winter 2025 edition of the Drastic project newsletter.

Drastic is delighted to announce that project partner, Produktif, has received not one, but two Green Solutions 2025 Awards from Construction-21 International for their work on the design and submission of a winning Passive House construction to the Ice Box Challenge Oslo in the summer of 2024.

Drastic partner Produktif joins around 60 hopeful entrants to the prestigious international round of Construction 21’s Green Solutions Awards 2024-2025, which will be announced on 12 November 2025 at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

At this year’s Smart City Expo, held in Barcelona, Spain, members of the Drastic consortium hosted a special roundtable panel on Wednesday 5 November, which offered the chance to explore one of the most pressing challenges—and opportunities—in the sector: how to make circular construction a reality.

Drastic’s fourth General Assembly, held at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, gathered the project’s consortium at a pivotal moment, as Drastic hits its two-year mark and is privy to a clearer view of the challenges ahead, via the experiences and lessons learned from two years of project proceedings.

Horizon Europe’s Drastic project is playing a key part in the drive to delay Earth Overshoot Day via its groundbreaking new Design Guidance and Assessment Framework and multiple European Demonstrator projects.

Welcome to the summer 2025 edition of the Drastic project newsletter. 

Welcome to the winter 2024 edition of the Drastic project newsletter. Drastic is a pioneering four-year collaborative project, launched in October 2023 and co-funded by the European Union (EU) via the Built4People Partnership.

Eero Nigumann, project manager at Timbeco (one of Drastic’s Estonian project partners) was awarded the the Young Civil Engineer 2024 prize by the Estonian Civil Engineers Union at the Ehitus 2025+: "New or Old?" Conference on 27 November 2024.

Welcome to the spring 2024 edition of the Drastic project newsletter, a space for project news and progress updates.

In April, Drastic was featured as part of this year’s World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) in Brussels. The WCEF is one of the world’s leading events for circular economy thinkers, doers and leaders, showcasing the most impactful circular solutions from around the world.