Circular Construction

Designing Buildings for Reuse (Solution Type)

Global (widely applicable)

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Treats buildings as material banks, using reusable components, material passports and design for disassembly.

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Circular construction reduces the large material and carbon footprint of buildings by keeping components and materials in use for longer. Strategies include designing for disassembly, reusing structural elements and finishes, using material passports and creating marketplaces for recovered products. Treating buildings as temporary material banks rather than future waste can cut embodied carbon, extraction and demolition waste across the construction sector.