Circular Construction

Project Introduction

The Construction Industry is the largest single industrial contributor to waste production in the UK. The growing recognition and further adoption of sustainable and circular construction practices have the potential to have a profound impact on the environmental and ecological impact of construction activity. The Scottish government programme of work for 2019 / 2020 made a commitment to ensuring a review of construction that will meet the challenges of the climate change emergency and the ambition to provide affordable homes – skills and knowledge are at the heart of this.

Project Impact

Working with Jim Baird and students from Glasgow Caledonian University and Zero Waste Scotland we have created teaching materials on Circular Economy in the Construction industry, that can not only be used by Construction lecturers at Colleges but anyone who wants to learn or teach about Circular Economy.

The course looked at the concepts & principles of the Circular Economy, how they apply to the construction sector and how waste can be minimised by applying these principles from the early stages of a build process. We highlighted best practice case studies from Scotland and the wider construction sector and attendees investigated how these principles can be introduced into the construction curriculum.