Opportunities and Approaches for Sustainable Public Procurement
The Office of Government Procurement have produced an excellent document outlining a range of approaches to embedding sustainability into public procurement. See link.
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Circular Material Library
Wonderful resource focusing on material circularity, see https://circularmateriallibrary.org/
Report on Critical Raw Materials and the Circular Economy
This 2018 report published by the European Commission evaluated the current state-of-play to ensure a coherent and effective approach in the future.
How to procure circular?
This report contains lessons learned from more than 30 circular procurement pilot projects and other activities performed within the Interreg NSR project ProCirc (2018- 2023). The report has been developed by Bax and Company based on an analysis of pilot case studies and interviews with piloting organizations conducted during 2021-2022.
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
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
