The circular business case: Exploring the role of the business case in creating financially feasible and circular biobased housing developments

The construction industry has a significant environmental impact, consumes a large amount of scarce resources, generates a lot of waste, and causes a lot of emissions such as CO2 which contribute to global warming and are all reasons of great concern. A significant portion of these negative environmental impacts are caused by the building sector...

Material stock of buildings in Brno: Towards circularity in the construction and demolition industry

GIS bottom-up analysis of the material stock of construction materials (concrete, bricks, mortar) in buildings in Brno, Czech Republic.

Real Estate Development in a Circular Built Environment: A research what the current and future role of the real estate development process is in delivering circularity in the built environment

The built environment is a major polluter of the environment and a significant contributor to carbon emissions. It is responsible for more than half of the world’s raw resource extraction. After a review of 337 previous studies on circularity in the built environment, 40 have been identified useful for the study. The literature is organised in...

Talking circularity - the influence of actors on the building process: A study into actor networks and influence on decision-making regarding the implementation of circularity into the building process.

The purpose of this master thesis is to gather information from current practices and make recommendations to facilitate implementation of circularity in the building process. The past years, circularity has become a popular term in the built environment. This approach prefers a more circular way of perceiving the building process. Literature...