this tool to lead to a diminishing of road transport (in Holland alone about 25% of traffic is building related) and prevention of destruction of embodied energy and CO2-emmisions for the construction industry. As an effect the tool offers the chance to economically empower local communities in setting up small scale businesses for finding markets and selling reclaimed goods. Ultimately we believe that the tool will generate knowledge on a professional level on how to design future products and buildings in such a way that reuse becomes a habit rather than an effort. Recyclicity is a practical strategy involving reuse for building industry operating on a multiparty level. It is the only initiative connecting international scientific knowledge, actual materials and creative inspiration on an open source basis.

Describe the critical need your solution addresses.

For the new tool many ingredients have been prepared
- reference database containing most specifications of the most commonly available materials.
- a first (now offline) pilot with an external evaluation report
- an international online community present on the web superuse designers, architects and general public who are interested in inventive ways of recycling.
- an extensive overview of worldwide built inspiring examples
- a first digital harvest map on waste.treelz.com
- a network of potential partners from commercial and academic background.
- a vast network of publicity-officers supporting the ideas, ready to include this tool in their media
-insight into the workings of success and flaws in cycles and internal communication

When the prize would be awarded to Recyclicity we would use it to integrate the existing ingredients into
- a systemdesign for the tool (15%)
- the construction of a second online pilot beta-version (35%) containing a digital harvest map, database and search-engine
- a phone widget (20%) allowing scouts to enter materials, elements, components and buildings.
- An international campaign acquiring partners and funds for the public tool and its worldwide launch (30%)

Explain your initiative in more depth and its stage of development.

Our interactive tool addresses a wide range of interlacing problems the current buildingproduction is faced with.
The growing scarceness of energy and material resources will raise the need for exchange of high quality information in order to realize local cycles; an ecosystem of the built environment. With prices raising for energy and wastedisposal the need for clever repurposing will grow. We estimate that this will be of importance for at least 30 years as the transformation to renewable energysources and C2C-poducts will not be operational to serve our planets population in time.
The growing population and the diminishing resources ask for an awareness in the economic use of available resources and the reduction of negative effects of their disposal and production processes. Worldwide transport of goods with its extensive cost of fossile fuels aswell as depletion of material resources are no longer excusable.
The growing accesability of internet and the current development of user-interfaces, allows for intricate multifunctional tools to help people foster and improve their direct environment. Our investigations show that there’s no technical limitation for realizing our ideas.
The success can be measured from transactions and information exhange recorded by regular trafficanalysis.
After a first testing period the tool can be distributed worldwide allowing a growing community to make practical shortcircuits.

How does your strategy and approach respond creatively and comprehensively to key issues?

the Recyclicity foundation was initiated by 2012Architecten in 2003 in order to gather, share and promote knowledge on reclaimed building materials. The members launched the pilot Recyclicity.net in 2005, co-edited the book Superuse in 2007, about the designing potential of waste. An accompanying website superuse.org offers a platform for the community interested in waste and design. Superuse.org has a steady 9000 unique visitor a month. The Founders are internationally renowned speakers on the issue of cycles in buiding processes and the treatment of wastematerial for constructing new buildings. They teach and lectured on Universities in amongst others London, Seoul, Hong-Kong, Delft, Napels, Liege, Bordeaux
2012 Architects has worldwide coverings on their work in both publications for creative disciplines as the recycling and construction industry. Their ideas are presented at the 11th architecture biennal in Venice, An integral view on the ideas has been documented in the PBSfilm ‘Superuse’ by Kontent Real and with a voice over by Brad Pitt.
The team is supported by specialists in geo-tagging (treelz) and advised by academics and professionals from demolishing and construction industry.