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UKGBC Circular Economy Metrics for Buildings

A deep dive into best practice approaches for measuring circular economy principles in the built environment by the Circular Economy Forum, see link.

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.

Transition Pathway for Construction

The EU Commission has produced an excellent document outlining a transition pathway for construction. It aims to offer a bottom-up understanding of the scale, cost, and conditions for resilience, competitiveness, the green and digital transition. It outlines 6 building blocks covering: competitiveness; skills and talent; enabling frameworks; research, innovation and technology; funding; and towards a

ERA industrial technology roadmap for circular technologies and business models in the textile, construction and energy-intensive industries

This roadmap aims to provide policymakers with an overview of the technologies, which cover the entire life cycle of products. They are assessed against five criteria: technology-readiness level; circularity potential; economic performance; contribution to zero pollution; and potential side-effects of implementation.

Roadmap Circular Land Tendering: An Introduction to Circular Building Projects

Metabolic and SGS Search produced an excellent document entitled ‘Roadmap for Circular Land Tendering, which provides guidance on steps that can be taken to stimulate, measure and reward circular building practices and innovation. With this Roadmap, Amsterdam is the first city in the world to develop an instrument for embedding the principles of circular construction