As we work toward a more sustainable built environment, it’s critical to move away from the traditional ‘take-make-dispose’ model and adopt a circular economy model instead.

A demolition contractor working for Wates claims it has reduced whole-life embodied carbon by 40% by redeveloping an existing office building instead of building a net-zero equivalent.

If the industry wants to embrace the circular economy, it must go beyond sustainability initiatives and adopt a restorative approach, writes Pablo Cristi Worm.

Keltbray is working with Saint-Gobain Glass UK and Ireland to collect glass waste – known as cullet – from a London project for closed-loop recycling as part of a glass recycling programme.

ISG is among a group of companies that will track the journey of reused steel through the supply chain from start to finish in a bid to encourage new circular economy business models.