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Circular construction

The construction sector is undergoing a major transition. Demand for housing, infrastructure, and public facilities continues to grow, while pressure on the climate and natural resources is increasing. Circular construction offers a pathway to create more value with fewer materials and lower environmental impact. Achieving this requires different choices in design, collaboration, and financing.

What we can offer

We help clients, developers, contractors, and public authorities define circular ambitions and turn them into tangible results, from strategy to implementation and from procurement to project delivery.

We can support you with the following:

  • Developing circular strategies, roadmaps, and carbon reduction pathways.
  • Defining circular ambitions and KPIs for projects and programmes.
  • Designing and facilitating circular procurement processes and tenders.
  • Supporting construction projects from inception to completion as an independent circular advisor.
  • Facilitating collaborations and sector-wide initiatives focused on circular construction.

Our experience

For more than a decade, we have been helping accelerate the transition to circular construction. We work with public authorities, housing associations, developers, contractors, and utility network operators to turn circular ambitions into practical solutions and measurable impact.

A selection of our projects:

  • Developing circular strategies with actionable measures to reduce material demand and contribute to climate and nature goals for organizations such as Blauwhoed, Synchroon, ERA Contour and Aalberts.
  • Policy research and advisory work to accelerate the transition to a circular construction economy. Our projects include environmental steering (MKI) in the infrastructure sector for the Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management as well as an analysis on industrial housing concepts for the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
  • Het Nieuwe Normaal as a shared language for circular construction. It enables clients and contractors to define ambitions and make agreements in a consistent way. Together with Cirkelstad we helped co-found this framework.
  • Ambitious procurement processes with circular ambitions such as the redevelopment of Alliander’s offices in Duiven, the Cruquius Bridge in North Holland, and the redevelopment of four portico flats for Woonstad in Rotterdam.
  • Circular process management: ensuring that circular ambitions translate into real-world outcomes. We support design teams in making strategic decisions and help embed circularity throughout the entire project lifecycle, from concept development to completion. Examples include LAB42 (University of Amsterdam), Physics (TU Delft), and the Cultuurcluster Berlijnplein (Municipality of Utrecht).
  • Independent research such as Building within Planetary Boundaries, the environmental impact of industrialized construction, Circular Business Models in Construction and Valuation of Circular Buildings.

Relevant publications

Are you ready to do good? For now and for the future.

Together we build a future that matters. We make choices that work today and remain valuable tomorrow. We create structures that can withstand change. Because real progress begins with vision and courage.

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