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
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.
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
Now in its fifth year, the Circular Economy Hotspot has become a flagship event on the international circular economy calendar and this year we are delighted to be hosting this important event in Ireland from May 29th to June 1st 2023. Hosting the European Circular Economy Hotspot in 2023 will bring international visibility to circular
The Build Green Now 2023 conference has an excellent line-up this year, see https://www.igbc.ie/events/build-green-now-2023/. Phillipa King (Southern Waste Region) will be participating in Session 3: Transitioning to the Circular Economy in Construction.
