Sustainability Transition through Dynamics of Circular Construction Projects

Kooter, E. (Elonie); Uden, Mart van; Marrewijk, Alfons van; Wamelink, J.W.F.; Bueren, Ellen van; Heurkens, Erwin

doi:10.3390/su132112101

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“…As awareness around sustainability increases and concerns regarding the economic, social, and environmental consequences of CDW generation intensify, attention is shifting towards repurposing waste into valuable resources. To achieve this, the primary aim is to embed circular strategies within CDW management practices, necessitating a multifaceted and interdisciplinary approach that bolsters the decision-making process [23,24]. Research directions are diverse and include a range of assessment methodologies, subjects, geographical regions, and management levels, examined either broadly or in specific combinations.…”

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Circularity Outlines in the Construction and Demolition Waste Management: A Literature Review

Gherman,

Lakatos,

Clinci

et al. 2023

Recycling

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This study provides a comprehensive view of the research field of construction and demolition waste (CDW) management in the circular economy based on a literature review. The increased intensity of interest is due to the need to create frameworks, mechanisms, and tools for the process of mind-shifting towards circularity. Research topics, researched life cycle stages, strategies for CDW management, sustainability assessment, building stock quantification, assessment tools and forecast methods, materials with CDW content, waste treatment solutions, and the barriers and drivers for efficient waste management in the construction industry are identified as the main concerns in the analyzed research field. The results show that a major concern in the academic field directs research to the path of innovative strategy elaboration, identifying the enablers and barriers in CDW management, computational tool creation for design and assessment, building stock modeling, and circular building material development. The environmental approach prevails, leaving economic and social assessments in CDW management uncovered. Although stakeholders’ involvement is stressed in most cases, strategies for awareness-raising and education for a sustainable circular activity in the field are lacking. The circularity of CDW management being a multifaceted and multi-disciplinary complex challenge, it is approached on different levels. This study introduces the novelty of structuring the trends of existing knowledge in a holistic view, identifying the research directions, dimensions, specific aspects, and instruments.

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Circularity Outlines in the Construction and Demolition Waste Management: A Literature Review

Gherman,

Lakatos,

Clinci

et al. 2023

Recycling

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“…Regardless of the nobility of the cause of transitioning from linearity to circularity, it appears that the construction industry faces a number of hurdles. Kooter et al (2021) argued that chief among the hindrances of the transition is the unwillingness of the business owners to change their way of doing business. It is in the same vein that Ghisellini et al (2016) and Górecki et al (2018) postulated that business models determined how the companies were likely to adopt circularity.…”

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Shaping circular economy in the built environment in Africa. A bibliometric analysis

Mhlanga

Haupt

Loggia³

2022

JEDT

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the intellectual structure shaping the circular economy (CE) discourse within the built environment in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a bibliometric analysis approach to explore the intellectual structure of CE in the built environment in Africa. The authors collected 31 papers published between 2005 and 2021 from the Scopus database and used VOSviewer for data analysis. Findings The findings show that there are six clusters shaping the intellectual structure: demolition, material recovery and reuse; waste as a resource; cellulose and agro-based materials; resilience and low-carbon footprint; recycling materials; and the fourth industrial revolution. The two most cited scholars had three publications each, while the top journal was Resources, Conservation and Recycling. The dominant concepts included CE, sustainability, alternative materials, waste management, lifecycle, demolition and climate change. The study concludes that there is low CE research output in Africa, which implies that the concept is either novel or facing resistance. Research limitations/implications The data were drawn from one database, Scopus; hence, adoption of alternative databases such as Web of Science, Google Scholar and Dimensions could potentially have yielded a higher number of articles for analysis which potentially would result in different conclusions on the subject understudy. Originality/value This study made a significant contribution by articulating the CE intellectual structure in the built environment, identified prominent scholars and academic platforms responsible for promoting circularity in Africa.

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