The building record: a material passport for every building

What the record captures

For every installed product:

• product and manufacturer
• value
• installing business
• installation date
• service life

Value across the life cycle

Its value shows across the entire life cycle of a building:

• Architect: during conversion and refurbishment
• Client: when selling
• Trade: during servicing and maintenance
• City: as an inventory of its building stock
• Recycler: during deconstruction
• Insurance: RAICOS tells what is inside a building.

Warranty and after-sales

Manufacturers, wholesalers and trades know what was installed where and when. Warranty claims and after-sales can be traced to the right product and business: the installer does not have to open up the wall.

Material with an identity

For the architect Thomas Rau, co-founder of Madaster, waste is material without an identity. Madaster creates material passports for buildings.

That identity is created at delivery, not at demolition. With every delivery, WEMAITES documents which material goes to which site and when.

The city as a store of raw materials

Dirk E. Hebel, Professorship of Sustainable Construction at KIT, describes the city as an urban mine and sees construction shifting from a consumption economy to a circular one. Werner Sobek, University of Stuttgart, ILEK: construction accounts for more than half of the world's material consumption.