CirCon4Climate - Strengthening Circular Construction Practices

CirCon4Climate - Strengthening Circular Construction Practices

The mission of the project is to contribute to climate change mitigation and security of supply in the construction sector by strengthening circular construction in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovenia, using best practices from Germany. Currently, there is a lack of awareness among policy makers of the potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption through circular construction. Investors lack local guidance on circular procurement. Architects and urban planning authorities lack good examples, support and quality assurance in designing buildings with recycled materials. Contractors lack awareness of actual take-back and recycling practices and the recycling industry is missing robust key figures based on that they can guarantee security of supply for secondary raw materials.

The project aims to increase the representation of circular building principles in public procurement, to encourage key players in the construction industry to use secondary materials and, finally, to increase the scale and volume of collection of materials for reuse and recycling, for example through regional material cadastres.