Background
By driving value chain-wide collaboration and piloting in real building projects, the project seeks to reduce product-related (embedded) emissions through circular economy.
Developing more circular solutions requires engagement from multiple actors in the value chain, and especially in the construction industry, where contractors, sub-contractors, architects, consultants, product providers and end customers rarely all come together already in the building planning phase.
Due to the fragmented nature of the industry, it is essential to conduct in-depth, collaborative development projects that bring together all relevant parties to co-create and innovate new solutions.
The goals of this new project are to:
1. Widen the understanding of the Nordic building industry on what circularity in the technical building equipment product category means, to enable the increase of demand and supply of circular solutions
3. Create common learnings from piloting that allows other manufacturers to create new solutions, the piloting companies to scale their solutions and the end customers as well as wider value chain to lower the barriers for adopting circular solutions in this product category
2. Provide a platform for piloting such solutions in multi-company collaboration setups between product manufacturers, end customers and other needed stakeholders
3. Create common learnings from piloting that allows other manufacturers to create new solutions, the piloting companies to scale their solutions and the end customers as well as wider value chain to lower the barriers for adopting circular solutions in this product category
4. Increase the visibility and export of Nordic circular solutions
5. Collect policy level insights for Nordic and EU level decision makers on how the circularity of technical building equipment could be further accelerated
Project outcomes
The concrete results of the project are multiple pilots in real building projects that demonstrate the feasibility of circular solutions of technical building equipment. Next to the pilots, the shared knowledge, increased capabilities and push in the demand of circular solutions will create multiple benefits for the participating companies and broader industry.
Impact
The project focuses on creating new, sustainable Nordic business solutions to drive circularity in the technical building equipment category. Technical building equipment is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions in the construction industry, and it lacks circular practices within the value chain.
Circularity in technical building equipment is crucial for reducing resource use, embedded emissions, and waste from buildings, which is especially important as most Nordic buildings already exist and require renovation and refurbishment.
