DISRUPT - Delivering Innovative Steel ReUse ProjecT

DISRUPT（交付创新钢铁再利用项目）旨在探索建筑中结构钢的创新再利用，并鼓励采用新的循环经济商业模式，以帮助应对气候紧急情况。钢是建筑业中使用最广泛和资源密集型的材料之一。尽管钢材通常在使用寿命结束时回收，但尽管具有明显的环境、碳和循环经济效益，但钢材的再利用却很少。钢材在使用寿命结束时的高价值可以通过在广泛的建筑应用中重复使用来实现。以前的研究表明，有障碍，包括经济因素，供应链问题，可用性和缺乏需求的再利用。需要新的商业模式，以确保钢铁再利用的好处在整个价值链中累积，并支持现有和新参与者的活动。DISRUPT旨在通过汇集参与钢结构再利用的主要参与者-客户，承包商和库存商，以及那些将受到从回收到再利用模式过渡的特别影响的参与者，如拆除承包商，来应对这些挑战。将进行详细的可行性研究，重点关注真实的生活案例研究，这些案例研究从开始到结束跟踪再利用钢铁的“旅程”，提供丰富的数据源，涵盖不同规模和类型的项目，以及英国各地地理位置的变化。该项目将提供新的成本循环商业模式，可以作为其他有兴趣进入再利用行业的公司的蓝图，最终实现向市场提供更多的再利用钢材。如果钢铁再利用要成为主流，新的商业模式必须有利可图，对整个价值链都是公平的，而且再利用的钢铁在建筑项目中随时可用，易于指定。DISRUPT旨在证明钢铁再利用在减缓气候变化方面可以发挥重要作用。

_DISRUPT (Delivering Innovative Steel ReUse ProjecT) seeks to explore the innovative reuse of structural steel in construction and encourage the adoption of new circular economy business models that can help tackle the climate emergency.__Steel is one of the most widely used and resource intensive materials used in construction. Although commonly recycled at end of life, the reuse of steel is minimal despite the apparent environmental, carbon and circular economy benefits. The high value of steel at end of life can be realised by being reused in a wide range of construction applications.__Previous studies have shown that there are barriers to reuse including economic factors, supply chain issues, availability, and lack of demand. New business models are required to ensure that the benefits of steel reuse are accrued across the value chain and underpin the activities of existing and new actors.__DISRUPT seeks to address these challenges by bringing together the leading actors involved in steel construction reuse - client, contractor, and stockist, and those that will be particularly impacted by the transition from a recycling to a reuse model, such as demolition contractors.__A detailed feasibility study will be undertaken focusing on real life case studies which track the 'journey' of reused steel from start to finish, providing a rich data source covering different sizes and types of projects, and variability in geographical location across the UK.__The project will deliver new costed circular business models that can act as a blueprint for other companies interested in entering the reuse sector, ultimately to achieve a greater supply of reuse steel into the marketplace. If steel reuse is to become mainstream, it is imperative that new business models are profitable and equitable to the whole value chain, and that reused steel is readily available and easy to specify within construction projects.__DISRUPT aims to prove that steel reuse can have a major role to play in mitigating climate change._