Ira Ivanova received her master’s degree in building science and energy efficient design of buildings from the Technical University of Vienna. She has six- year working experience as architectural technician and coordinator of planning and construction processes with the use Building Information Modeling (BIM). Her professional day-to-day activities she administered in an interdisciplinary team consisting of building engineers and physicists, with whom she designed building solutions and construction details to achieve better energy performance. In the summer of 2022 Ira joined the EnEffect team and since fall of 2022 she is part of a group of engineers, environmental specialists and architects teaching an elective on Circular Economy in Construction at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia.