期刊
DETRITUS
卷 16, 期 -, 页码 26-30出版社
CISA PUBLISHER
DOI: 10.31025/2611-4135/2021.15110
关键词
Circular economy; Construction and building sector; Scaling of solutions
This study found through interviews that there are significant differences in the awareness and application of circular economy in the Danish construction industry stakeholders, with some viewing circular economy as difficult to scale while others already offering comprehensive circular solutions. There is a need for a common definition and terminology, methods for technical documentation, implementation in digital systems, and support for circularity framework conditions.
The building and construction sector is selected by the European Commission as a key product value chain in the transition towards circular economy (CE) due to the major resource consumption, waste generation and GHG emissions from this sector. This paper reports the result from qualitative and semi-structured interviews with 30 Danish stakeholders from the sector on the current stage of implementation of CE and the research/innovation needs to scale circular construction from niche to the new normal. The interviews showed a large variety in the stakeholder's stage of transition from hardly knowing the term to having CE as a major driver in their business. Some meant that scaling of CE is close to impossible and that material reuse will never develop to more than a niche, whereas others already offer full-scale circular solutions to clients. The interviews pointed at a need for a common definition and terminology for CE, methods for documenting the gains from the circular solutions (economic and environmental), methods for technical documentation of the quality of reused materials, processes which enables scaling, methods to implement CE in various systems such as digitalization and building passports, new value chains and framework conditions in support of circularity. Regardless these needs, few demonstration projects of major importance to gain general knowledge have been finalized or are planned in Denmark. These demonstrations have different approaches: using todays waste from different industries as construction materials; reusing construction materials (the basic building, elements or processed materials); and designing new buildings for disassembly to enable future reuse.
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