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Three months of learning, innovation, and collaboration in industrial renovation

Three months of learning and collaboration

Last week, Drastic’s Estonian Demonstrator successfully concluded a comprehensive three-month training series dedicated to industrial renovation, hosted by project partners, TalTech and Timbeco.

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Updates from the CircHub Cluster

The CircHub Cluster has released a new interview video featuring Carolin Spirinckx, Project Manager at Drastic’s coordinating partner, VITO, sharing insights from the latest CircHub workshop, held in Naples on 5 March 2026.
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How can circular solutions be scaled across the built environment value chain, and how does the Drastic Project play a key role in this process?

Discover key insights from the first European Drastic webinar- ‘Circularity in the built environment: From global vision to local action’.
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Demonstrators in action: Estonian demonstrator validates design for disassembly in timber renovation systems

Drastic’s Estonian Demonstrator has reached a significant technical milestone with the successful completion of the full assembly and disassembly cycle of prefabricated timber-framed insulation panels developed for building renovation in Estonia.
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Drastic Launches First Project Webinar: Circularity in the Built Environment

The Drastic project has launched its first webinar in a new series exploring circularity in the built environment. Taking place on 11 March 2026, the session will examine how global policy, national strategies and project-level innovation can work together to accelerate implementation.
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EU Project Collaboration: CircBoost

The Drastic project is delighted to welcome a new EU project collaboration with CircBoost for 2026!
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Drastic partners gathered in Barcelona for project’s General Assembly

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.
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Constructing a sustainable future starts today: how the Drastic project can help delay Earth Overshoot Day

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.
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Eero Nigumann wins Young Civil Engineer 2024 prize

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.
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Euro Nigumann wins young civil engineer prize

Eero Nigumann wins Young Civil Engineer 2024 prize

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.
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