UPCOMING

Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. (ET)
Webinar: Building at Scale: Industrial Modular Construction with Supportive Policy

The future of construction depends on bridging design innovation with policy action. This session brings together two leaders shaping that shift: one advancing industrialized construction in Canada while building a national policy coalition, the other pioneering circular and reversible building design in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe.

Geoff Cape, CEO of Assembly Corp. and convener of the Canadian Industrialized Construction Coalition, will share Canada’s emerging approach to scaling affordable, low-carbon housing through modular and offsite construction.

Dr. Elma Durmisevic, founder of the EU Laboratory for Circular Building, will offer insights from Europe’s experience in designing transformable buildings and embedding circularity into regulation and practice.

Together they will explore how innovation, policy, and design can align to accelerate a more adaptable, resource-efficient built environment. The Dutch Canadian Circular Alliance and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Toronto invite you to join us for this exciting conversation.

Register for this webinar here. 

Geoff Cape is Chief Executive Officer of Assembly Corp., a builder focused on providing panelized, mass timber building solutions. Assembly is the founding convener of the Canadian Industrialized Construction Coalition (CICC), a national alliance of 100+ companies connecting the industrialized construction supply chain across Canada in the effort to build affordable, low-carbon housing. The coalition recently submitted recommendations to the federal government calling for strategic financing, coordinated procurement, and regulatory modernization to unlock a sector capable of delivering 500,000 homes annually.

Dr. Elma Durmisevic holds a PhD at Delft University of Technology on Transformable Building Structures, and Design for Disassembly in Architecture. She's the founder of 4D Architects in Amsterdam, founding director of EU Laboratory for Circular Buildings (Green Transformable Building Lab), Green Design Centre for South East Europe, Green Design Biennale and Initiator of the first EU project on Circular Buildings- “Buildings as Material Banks”.

Based on Durmisevic's premise that waste is deemed as design error, she envisioned a new generation of reversible industrialised buildings which are not perceived as static structures designed for demolition, but as dynamic structures designed for modification, upgrade and material reuse.

Dr. Elma Durmisevic is a pioneer in circular adaptive building design, and creator of 'Reversible building design’ methodology and assessment tools which have been adopted by numerous EU Horizon, Buildt4People & NEB Bauhaus projects as well as by ISO 20887 standard and EU Levels. She is a member of number of juries such as the Dutch Building Award, International BIG 5 award, and various scientific comities as well as guest lecturer at the Royal Association of Dutch Architects, Royal Institute of British Architects, Polytechnic Milan, USA Build Reuse platform and numerous universities.

November 10-14
Waste to Resource Trade Mission to the Netherlands

MetaSus and The Waste Not Spot, together with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and the Dutch Consulate General - Toronto, are pleased to be organising a mission of Canadian parties (public and private) involved in waste and circular economy to the Netherlands this November 2025. 

Canadian professionals and organisations in the waste and circular economy sector who would like to stay informed about the upcoming trade mission can register their interest here.