Our Shared Understanding
This 2023 report published by the Circular Buildings Coalition (CBC) is a summary of core concepts that inform the transition to a circular economy.
Guidance
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The Circular Supplier Success Guide
The aim of the Circular Supplier Success guide is to help suppliers, specifically SMEs,navigate the complex landscape of procurement and tenders, including those labelled green, sustainable, responsible, innovative, or circular procurement. This is an output from the Interreg North Sea Region funded ProCirc project.
Implementation of Circularity, Whole Life Carbon and Life Cycle Costing in Public Construction Projects
This 2023 handbook produced by the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) through their EPA funded Circular Life project provides a nice overview on how Level(s) and the Regenerate Tool can support circularity in construction.
Action Plan to increase the proportion of green public procurements and green innovation report
The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management published a 2021 action plan covering a range of sectors including construction, building and property. One of the recommended key priorities for contracting authorities was the promotion of a circular economy, through lifecycle calculations, improving land use, better maintenance, reuse of existing buildings, use of materials that
Circular Economy in the Civil Engineering and Real Estate Industry Status Mapping Report
As part of the follow-up on the ‘Action plan to increase the proportion of green public procurements and green innovation‘, the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management appointed Deloitte to map the status of the circular economy in CCERE procurements. This 2022 report will provide a scientific basis for the further development of the
The Circular Built Environment Playbook
The World Green Building Council (WGBC) have published a wonderful guidance document that explore the principles of the circular economy, the role of buildings and materials, design and retrofit opportunities, how to move towards regenerative design, levers for change, and a clear call to action. It also provides a suite of excellent case studies and
Towards a Circular Economy in the Built Environment
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.
Embracing Circular Economy Practices
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.
Advancing the circular economy through infrastructure
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.
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.
The Circular Built Tool
The guide is organized into a practical questions that come up in every construction project: How do I get started? Which aspects of circular construction do I include in my project? How do I follow up on them? How can I evaluate my project after delivery? The ‘Circular Built’ tool is a guidance tool that
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