From circular strategies to actions: 65 European circular building cases and their decarbonisation potential

The application of the circular economy (CE) in the building industry is critical for achieving the carbon reduction goals defined in the Paris Agreement and is increasingly promoted through European policies. In recent years, CE strategies have been applied and tested in numerous building projects in practice. However, insights into their...

Tax Shift for Circularity: a policy-oriented life cycle costing analysis of two construction case studies at the Floriade

The Circular Economy (CE) has emerged as an economic paradigm that could provide a pathway to sustainable development. The transition to a CE is a complex process requiring wide multi-level and multi-stakeholder engagement, which can be facilitated by appropriate policy interventions. As value retention processes in the CE require additional...

SHARED ‘LUXURY’: Adaptive Reuse of T4 & CJ3 Office Buildings into Collective Self-organized Community Under the Guidance of a Circular Business Model

1. Minimal intervention of vacant office building.<br/>2. Self-organized interactive and independent community for future tenants to rejoin the civil society. A complex of living, working, and learning.<br/>3. Slow and small energy strategy including rainwater collection, food forest, and PV panel positioning.<br/>4. Circular business model act...

Planning for Change: A Methodological Framework for Integrating Circularity at TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Curricula.

This paper introduces a methodological framework to integrate circularity in architectural curricula and the building blocks that led to its conceptualisation. The first block (Part A) examines how complexity has affected learning and architectural education, in particular. The paper departs from the notion that knowledge produces further...

A Policy Coherence Framework for Circular Built Environment Implementation: the Case of a Campus Development

Dozens of cities around the world have already envisioned a circular built environment by establishing a variety of sectorial policies, strategies, and roadmaps, among other policy documents. As circularity is introduced in the making and operation of the built environment, caveats have been raised upon the governance of circular transitions....

Perspectieven op circulaire gebiedsontwikkeling: Lessen uit de Binckhorst en andere gebiedsontwikkelingen

The circular built environment toolbox: A systematic literature review of policy instruments

The built environment plays a central role in the transition towards the circular economy as they concentrate major consumer and polluter human activities. However, the way BEs are – and need to be – driven by policy to reach cities’ circular goals is still an under-researched aspect. Particularly, there is limited knowledge of policy...

De betonfabriek als glazen bol: circulaire steden kunnen niet zonder industrie

Bij de herontwikkeling van bedrijventerreinen in steden legt de bestaande industrie vaak het af tegen woningbouw. Maar TU Delft-onderzoeker Karel Van den Berghe laat via een rekenoefening zien dat dit ook ten koste gaat van de circulaire ambities van steden. Want hoe kan Den Haag ooit verantwoord bouwen als de stad haar enige betonfabriek...

De paradox van circulariteit

Karel Van den Berghe is kritisch en bezorgd. De in Nederland werkende Vlaming stelt dat steden teveel belang hechten aan ruimte voor circulair ontwerp zoals lampen, huizen en buurten. De circulaire economie heeft echter ook ruimte nodig om het circulair functioneren te faciliteren, met name de (her)maakindustrie. Toch verdwijnen in Nederland...

Circulair bouwen raakt ingeburgerd: Rijksvastgoedbedrijf en Rijkswaterstaat in 2030 circulaire bouwopdrachtgevers

Keten circulair bouwen voorlopig nog niet gesloten: Groeiende inzet ondanks beperkingen

When a Fire Starts to Burn: The Relation Between an (Inter)nationally Oriented Incinerator Capacity and the Port Cities’ Local Circular Ambitions

This paper assesses the potential of the circular economy (CE) policy ambitions of the port cities of Ghent (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Both Ghent and Amsterdam are municipalities that potentially lend themselves ideally to set up a more local-oriented circular (re)production and (re)consumption system. Subsequently, both have the...

Patterns of Circular Transition: What Is the Circular Economy Maturity of Belgian Ports?

Large seaport hubs in Northwestern Europe are aiming to develop as circular hotspots and are striving to become first movers in the circular economy (CE) transition. In order to facilitate their transition, it is therefore relevant to unravel potential patterns of the circular transition that ports are currently undertaking. In this paper, we...

A process framework for the transition to circular urban area development of M4H

In this research, a practical process framework is developed to facilitate the transition to circular urban area development (CUAD) of the MerweVierhavens (M4H). One of the five objectives of the Rotterdam Makers Districts is to become the pilot for the circular economy in the built environment of Rotterdam. M4H is an old harbour area that...

Circular Façade Systems and Construction: Design for Remanufacturing Window Systems

Context<br/> The “take-make-dispose” linear model has proven to be highly unsustainable during the past decades. A circular economy has emerged as a model that is restorative by design, and a response towards the high material and energy intensive linear model. However, a transition to a circular built environment implies a radical change in...

Facade Leasing Demonstrator Project. Technical Delivery Report: Annex 4.2.6. FLD D2

Accelerating deep building energy retrofits within the Circular Economy transition. This technical report is an annex to the Facade Leasing Demonstrator Project 2018 performance report (4.2.6.FLD.D1). For general information on the Facade Leasing research project, its process, and objectives please refer to the aforementioned document.<br/>This...

Circular Area Design or Circular Area Functioning?: A Discourse-Institutional Analysis of Circular Area Developments in Amsterdam and Utrecht, The Netherlands

The hypothesis of this paper is that the circular economy (CE) has the potential to (re)balance the conflict within urban spatial planning between ‘place as a location’ and the ‘organization of space’. The former dominates the latter following a shift from a Fordist towards a finance and real-estate driven regime. A consequence is that existing...

Circulair bouwen vraagt om sprong voorwaarts: Veel ideeen maar nog weinig uitvoering