Leading the transition towards
a Circular Built Environment

The Build360 Hub aims to support industry professionals, academics and student who wish to learn more about how the Irish built environment sector can transition towards a decarbonized circular economy.

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Circular Hotspot

Dr. John Scahill and Philippa King from the Build360 group will be participating in the Circularity in the Built Environment Deep Dive, 31 May 9.00-12.30, see https://www.dublincirculareconomyhotspot.com/event

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Multi-scale, circular economic potential of non-residential building stock

Really interesting project from the Urban Flows Observatory in the University of Sheffield, which aims to to develop a spatially multi-scale framework to assess CE potential in individual buildings, cities and countries. The framework, applied to non-residential construction in the UK, will enable estimation of CE potential in the existing stock. It will utilise bottom-up

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Circular Economy Taxonomy Study: Buildings do not meet EU requirements

An excellent study by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) examined the market-readiness of the circular economy criteria proposed in the EU Taxonomy. Several challenges were identified including: reuse of material content, use of recyclates, insufficient information flows, and a lack of circular construction methods, see link for full report.

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