Publications by Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

A standardized method to assess the reuse potential of building components

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This paper presents a standardized assessment method to evaluate the reuse potential of building components, addressing the construction industry's need for sustainable resource management. The procedure relies on basic data about the assessed building, wi ...

CRC Press2025

An extensive database of Swiss building structures to predict the availability of materials and components

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

Predicting the availability and quantities of reusable components and recyclable materials is one of the challenges of a wider implementation of circular economy practices in construction. A detailed knowledge of the composition of past and current buildin ...

CRC Press2025

Pedagogy of an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop to design and build floor systems with reused materials

Peter Zurbrügg, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This paper reflects on the pedagogy used for a series of student workshops on building with reused materials at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and presents the results of its 7 th edition, which focused on floor systems. During these w ...

CRC Press2025

The persistent practice of reuse in the modern era: A survey of francophone advertising in Switzerland from 1851 to 1968

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This study examines the persistent, though often overlooked, practice of material reuse in francophone Switzerland, exploring advertisements from 1851 to 1968 that illustrate a continuous and practical approach to reclaiming construction materials. These a ...

CRC Press2025

Analysis and Synthesis of Existing Procedures Used to Determine the Reuse Potential of Building Elements

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

Amid escalating concerns over CO2 emissions, resource depletion, and waste generation in construction, reusing building elements from obsolete structures presents a sustainable solution. This paper critically reviews 21 procedures used in Europe and the Un ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2025

Digital Inventory of Swiss Construction Systems (DISCS)

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

The Digital Inventory for Swiss Construction Systems is a database structure that provides detailed information on component attributes in as-built load-bearing and insulating layers of existing buildings. The first version of the dataset provides granular ...

Zenodo2025

Reuse potentials of building elements: learning from practices and synthesis of assessment methods

Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

The urgent need for sustainable construction practices has brought renewed attention to the reuse of building elements, a practice that significantly reduces waste and conserves resources. Despite its potential, building element reuse faces challenges due ...

EPFL2025

Learning from North Americans: barriers and levers to reuse from practitioners' experiences

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This study delves into the intricacies of building element reuse practices in North America, spanning the genesis, current practices, and future projections of the initiatives. Using a semi-structured interview method, 35 stakeholders representing diverse ...

Institute of Physics2024

How Gained Experience Influences Perceived Levers and Barriers of Reuse Practices: Learning from North Americans

Maléna Bastien Masse, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

This study delves into how the perception of levers and barriers for building element reuse evolves over time as individuals and practices gain experience on this topic. Three periods of business development are compared: the genesis of practice; the curre ...

MDPI AG2024

Reading the existing: What discarded materials bring to the project

Célia Marine Küpfer, Maxence Grangeot, Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Barbara Ludivine Justine Lambec

Buildings are being demolished sooner and sooner after their construction. Regrettably this trend shows no signs of being reversed anytime soon. Demolition activities are driven today by real estate developments fueled by investment logics and rapidly chan ...

EPFL Press2024