ADiCu Reading Room
Literature on agile, digital and circular construction
The ADiCu Reading Room brings together selected books, reports, guidelines and other reference documents on circular construction, the reuse of building components, BIM and digital technologies, and agile management and stakeholder collaboration. It also provides access to publicly available analyses and results of the ADiCu project. The collection supports the project’s research and helps students and professionals access knowledge relevant to understanding the life cycle of buildings and their materials.
Free open-access books
The selected books below are available in full, free of charge, on the official Springer Nature publisher websites. The link for each book leads to a page with bibliographic information and download options. We do not purchase these books using the project budget, as they are already available in open access.
A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
Catherine De Wolf; Sultan Çetin; Nancy M. P. Bocken (eds.) | Springer | 2024
Digital technologies, BIM, material passports and business models for a circular built environment.
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Circular Economy Design and Management in the Built Environment: A Critical Review of the State of the Art
Luís Bragança; Philip Griffiths; Rand Askar; Adriana Salles; Viorel Ungureanu; Katerina Tsikaloudaki; Diana Bajare; Gabriel Zsembinszki; Meri Cvetkovska (eds.) | Springer | © 2025; e-book published on 31 October 2024.
Circular design, circularity criteria and indicators, management, and a framework for reviewing the state of research.
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Shaping Circular Transitions in the Built Environment: From Barriers to Enablers
Luís Bragança; Meri Cvetkovska; Viorel Ungureanu; Katerina Tsikaloudaki; Marianna Marchesi; Ana Andabaka; Ruben Paul Borg; Camila Cervantes (eds.) | Springer | © 2026
Technical, regulatory, economic and cultural barriers, and digital tools and business models for implementing circularity.
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Reports, guidelines and reference documents
This section features publicly available reports, professional guidelines, strategic documents, and documents on standards and standardisation relevant to agile, digital and circular construction. The links lead to official sources, where the edition, publication date and availability of each document can be checked.
Analyses, results and student work related to the project Link to “Results”
ADiCu Corner in the Faculty Library
A dedicated ADiCu Corner is being prepared in the library of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering. The planned collection will combine selected printed books with free digital resources. Once the printed books have been acquired and catalogued, we will publish a list of available titles and links to the library catalogue here.
How to use the collection
Access free books and publicly available documents through the links on this page. Project analyses and results can be accessed through links to their published versions in the “Results” section. QR codes in the library will connect the ADiCu Corner to the digital collection. Printed books will be used in accordance with the Faculty Library’s rules.
For each source you use, cite the authors or editors, the title and the year of publication. When reusing content, comply with the licence of the individual book and the source attributions provided within it.