This 2023 report published by Metabolic, WGBC, Circle Economy, WBSCD, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, ARUP and supported by the Laudes Foundation examines strategies to overcome market, finance, and ownership challenges. This was a collaborative research effort by the Circular Buildings Coalition (CBC), which has been established to coordinate built environment stakeholders working towards this transition.
This guide published by the UK Business in the Community in March 2023 outlines how to embed circular economy principles within your organization to drive positive impact. This routemap aims to help businesses to reduce Scope 3 emission by supporting them in creating a circular economy strategy.
This report published in November 2021 by the Global Infrastructure Hub explores transitions pathways for practitioners in circular infrastructure. Two key benefits of circular infrastructure were identified – mitigating climate change and mitigating the risk of resource scarcity.
The Build360 team were reflecting on the fantastic Circular Hotspot event from last week https://www.dublincirculareconomyhotspot.com/. Looking forward to the next Circular Hotspot in Slovenia in 2025 https://hollandcircularhotspot.nl/news/the-european-circular-economy-hotspot-2025-to-be-hosted-by-slovenia/
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
Excellent paper published by Charles Gillott, Will Mihkelson, Maud Lanau, Dave Cheshire, Danielle Densley Tingley, see link.
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
regenerate is a circular economy engagement tool for all those involved in the design and construction of buildings. It can be applied to all building types, retrofits and new builds, see https://urbanflows.ac.uk/regenerate/. You have to register to access the tool https://regenerateapp.urbanflows.ac.uk/register
TREASoURcE is a four-year project (2022-2026) receiving funding from the European Union under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. TREASoURcE aims to initiate systemic change by developing systemic circular economy solutions in cities and regions for currently underutilized or unused plastic waste, end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and bio-based waste and side streams. Implementing these
A deep dive into best practice approaches for measuring circular economy principles in the built environment by the Circular Economy Forum, see link.
The UKGBC has collated an excellent suite of best practice, real-world examples of climate action and innovation in the built environment, see link.
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.
