Steel reuse offers up to 95% savings in embodied carbon compared to newly manufactured steel. Our UK Research and Innovation funded HARNESS and RE-CELL projects are looking at AI to facilitate more reuse of steel beams.
RE-CELL
A feasibility study on cellular beam reuse.
While current reuse practices focus on solid steel sections, a significant stock of cellular beams is now approaching the end of its service life. This presents a timely opportunity to investigate the feasibility of cellular beam reuse.
ASBP is leading this research project to assess the technical, economic, and supply chain viability of reusing cellular beams – with a special emphasis on leveraging AI and computer vision to predict reusability.
Our RE-CELL Partners are the Steel Construction Institute, and City St George’s, University of London.
HARNESS
High-quality AI-assisted Reuse for Next-generation Engineering Steel Supply.
Steel reuse remains limited by manual, fragmented workflows that undermine efficiency and confidence. The HARNESS project integrates AI into the fabrication workflow, transforming reuse into a systematic, scalable, and data-driven process.
HARNESS is led by Efestos Hub, with partners ASBP and Caunton Engineering Limited.