The plate in brief

Scan a circulation pump and it tells you what it is made of, when it was installed, how to repair it, where its part files are, what has already been fixed, and how to take it apart safely. Windows, chairs, and wall panels all carry the same kind of passport. Together they make a building component catalogue: scan, understand, repair, reuse.

The record travels with the component, so knowledge doesn’t get lost when a technician leaves or a resident moves out. This is a proposal for a building-wide passport system, modeled on the digital product passport the European Commission is developing.

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