The book’s overarching theme is exploring the synergies of coupling circularity with industrialisation. The construction sector is well known for being siloed and slow to innovate due to its inherent nature of starting over in each individual project and solving the same challenges with new teams and new solutions.

Through industrialised construction, our current project-focused practice can be turned into circular product platform thinking based on the belief that rationalisation and technological innovation will continue to play a significant role in shaping a safer and fairer future.

This book introduces various principles, perspectives, and tools. It covers principles of design for disassembly, material and building passports, and circular business models. It also provides perspectives on circular life cycle assessment and tools that can provide circularity insights, planetary boundary targets for construction, and estimates of existing reuse and upfront carbon savings.

Circular Economics in the Built Environment
Why Circular Construction
Design for Disassembly
Material and Building Passport
Circular Economy Business Models

Industrialised Circular Construction
The ecological framework
Industrialisation – history and principles
Systems – parameters and criteria
Circular Product Platforms
Emerging technologies
Circular Product Platforms

Building Delivery System by Home.Earth
A Building Delivery System
Networks and Partnerships
Prefabricated Construction Elements
A Digital Platform
How to Obtain a Scalable Product
Circular Value Chain Collaboration
Bridging the Gap

Design Principles and Architectural Potential
Lifecycle-based Architecture
Best-practice Configuration Principles
The design potential of modular construction
Eco-Classicism - a ‘Circular Style’

Rethinking Impact and Measurement
Tools to assess Circularity Benefits
Circularity Indicators
Life Cycle Assessment and Circularity
Building within the Limits of the Planet
The Imperfections of Life Cycle Assessment
Circular Frameworks and Regulations

Co-creators: Agnes Garnow, Amy Egerter, Carel van Houte, Dan Johannes Pham, Daniel M. Hall, Emil Engelbrecht, Frederik Brauer, Giacomo Brusa Cattaneo, Harpa Birgisdóttir, Javier Gutierrez, Jesper Kort Andersen, Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard, Morten Walbech Ryberg, Nicolas Francart, Mirjam Hallin, and Salma Zavari