Print Email Facebook Twitter Sustainability transition through dynamics of circular construction projects Title Sustainability transition through dynamics of circular construction projects Author Kooter, Elonie (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) van Uden, M.F.M. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management) van Marrewijk, A.H. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; BI Norwegian Business School) Wamelink, J.W.F. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management) van Bueren, Ellen (TU Delft Management in the Built Environment) Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (TU Delft Urban Development Management) Department Management in the Built Environment Date 2021 Abstract The aim of this paper is to better understand the dynamics of circular construction projects and how these interorganizational projects contribute to the transition towards a circular economy. It is essential that the construction sector develops and adopts interorganizational initiatives to support the transition to a circular and low-carbon construction economy. A benefit of being involved in such initiatives is that organizations reflect on the emergence and acceptance of new practices related to changing organizational roles and responsibilities. In this paper, we study eight circular construction projects within the context of an interorganizational initiative to stimulate the transition towards a circular economy by exploring insights from evaluations thereof. We build upon literature from Sustainability Transitions Research (STR), circular construction research, and interorganizational project studies. Our findings show three clusters of dynamics that are relevant in the realization of circular ambitions in interorganizational construction projects: (1) prerequisites, (2) temporal dynamics in interorganizational projects, and (3) contextual influences. These insights highlight factors that enable the realization of circular ambitions in construction projects and contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of interorganizational construction projects and their role in the context of STR. Subject Circular transitionConstruction projectsInterorganizational collaboration To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bf904617-a1d3-4ead-ae1c-8a528e224304 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112101 ISSN 2071-1050 Source Sustainability, 13 (21) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Elonie Kooter, M.F.M. van Uden, A.H. van Marrewijk, J.W.F. Wamelink, Ellen van Bueren, E.W.T.M. Heurkens Files PDF sustainability_13_12101.pdf 708.7 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bf904617-a1d3-4ead-ae1c-8a528e224304/datastream/OBJ/view