Lombe Mutale
About
About
I am a PhD candidate in the Structural Department and part of NTNU's Circular City project which is one of the Sustainability research projects.
Resource extraction for construction materials requires large amounts of energy which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, annually, there is a large quantity of construction and demolition waste polluting cities. However, some building components and materials from these activities are still in good condition. The construction industry can be more sustainable by urban mining the building stock thereby reducing waste, pollution and resource extraction.
The PhD project aims at investigating how structural components and materials from existing buildings can be used in new construction using BIM and probabilistic modelling.
Supervisors
Research areas and interests
Bayesian networks, probabilistic modelling, structural analysis, computational design, parametric modelling, sustainability, circular economy, structural design
Competencies
Publications
2025
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Mutale, Lombe;
Hingorani, Ramon;
Kohler, Jochen.
(2025)
Estimating structural timber material quantities using historical design codes and probabilistic modelling for circular economy.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Mutale, Lombe;
Hingorani, Ramon;
Kohler, Jochen.
(2025)
Inferring global and detailed structural building variables from prior probabilities, historical structural design and Bayesian Networks.
ce/papers - Proceedings in Civil Engineering
Academic article
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Aalto, Pasi;
Dittrich, Nils Maximilian;
Triantafyllidis, Georgios;
Mutale, Lombe;
Stolz, Beatrice Alexandra Pauline.
(2025)
Mapping Trondheim’s building stock.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2024
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Mutale, Lombe;
Hingorani, Ramon;
Dittrich, Nils Maximilian;
Köhler, Jochen.
(2024)
Probabilistic modelling of building stock properties for urban mining.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
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Mutale, Lombe;
Hingorani, Ramon;
Kohler, Jochen.
(2025)
Inferring global and detailed structural building variables from prior probabilities, historical structural design and Bayesian Networks.
ce/papers - Proceedings in Civil Engineering
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Mutale, Lombe;
Hingorani, Ramon;
Kohler, Jochen.
(2025)
Estimating structural timber material quantities using historical design codes and probabilistic modelling for circular economy.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Aalto, Pasi;
Dittrich, Nils Maximilian;
Triantafyllidis, Georgios;
Mutale, Lombe;
Stolz, Beatrice Alexandra Pauline.
(2025)
Mapping Trondheim’s building stock.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Mutale, Lombe;
Hingorani, Ramon;
Dittrich, Nils Maximilian;
Köhler, Jochen.
(2024)
Probabilistic modelling of building stock properties for urban mining.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Outreach
2025
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Academic lectureGedde, Kristina Bringedal; Mutale, Lombe; Ross, Lone. (2025) Wood intensities in a 19th-century log house prior to and post-rehabilitation – Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering. 21st Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering , Växjö 2025-10-06 - 2025-10-07
2023
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PosterDittrich, Nils Maximilian; Mutale, Lombe; Hingorani, Ramon; Kohler, Jochen; Mueller, Daniel Beat. (2023) Can Bayesian Networks predict materials and components at building level?. 11th international Conference on Industrial Ecology , Leiden 2023-07-02 - 2023-07-05