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Towards a Building Heritage Material Passport: Adapting Material Passport Frameworks for Circular Management of Historic Buildings

  • Graziella Bernardo
  • Daiana Dall’Arche
  • Angelarosa Manicone

The transition towards circular construction has increased interest in Digital Product Passports as tools for material traceability and life cycle management. However, existing frameworks are primarily designed for new buildings, limiting their applicability to the historic built heritage. This paper examines how these principles can be adapted to historic buildings through a comparative literature review and the examination of experimental projects. The analysis identifies the main transferable features and defines the preliminary requirements for a Building Heritage Material Passport (BHMP), conceived as an interoperable digital repository supporting conservation, intervention traceability, and the circular management of the built heritage.

  • Keywords:
  • Material passport,
  • Conservation,
  • Material circularity,
  • Heritage material reuse,
  • BHMP,
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Graziella Bernardo

University of Basilicata, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9291-6099

Daiana Dall’Arche

University of Basilicata, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0002-6701-694X

Angelarosa Manicone

University of Basilicata, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0009-0232-1637

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Towards a Building Heritage Material Passport: Adapting Material Passport Frameworks for Circular Management of Historic Buildings

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Graziella Bernardo, Daiana Dall’Arche, Angelarosa Manicone

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10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.102

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