TY - JOUR
T1 - Circular Economy in the building sector
T2 - Three cases and a collaboration tool
AU - Leising, Eline
AU - Quist, Jaco
AU - Bocken, Nancy
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Circular Economy (CE) gained significant traction in business and academia. While in the building sector issues around energy efficiency are being widely explored, CE is still a relatively new topic. This article reports on three CE pilots in the Dutch building sector and develops a collaboration tool for developing and operating circular buildings and their supply chain collaborations. First, a conceptual framework is developed to study supply chain collaboration in circular buildings, which uses theoretical building blocks for visions, actor learning, network dynamics and business model innovation. Second, a case study is presented where the framework is applied to three cases using semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Third, an empirically-based tool is developed to enhance collaboration for CE in the building sector. The cases include a newly built project, a renovation project and a demolition project. It was found that developing circular buildings requires (i) a new process design where a variety of disciplines in the supply chain is integrated upfront, (ii) the co-creation of an ambitious vision, (iii) extension of responsibilities to actors along the entire building supply chain, and (iv) new business and ownership models.
AB - The Circular Economy (CE) gained significant traction in business and academia. While in the building sector issues around energy efficiency are being widely explored, CE is still a relatively new topic. This article reports on three CE pilots in the Dutch building sector and develops a collaboration tool for developing and operating circular buildings and their supply chain collaborations. First, a conceptual framework is developed to study supply chain collaboration in circular buildings, which uses theoretical building blocks for visions, actor learning, network dynamics and business model innovation. Second, a case study is presented where the framework is applied to three cases using semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Third, an empirically-based tool is developed to enhance collaboration for CE in the building sector. The cases include a newly built project, a renovation project and a demolition project. It was found that developing circular buildings requires (i) a new process design where a variety of disciplines in the supply chain is integrated upfront, (ii) the co-creation of an ambitious vision, (iii) extension of responsibilities to actors along the entire building supply chain, and (iv) new business and ownership models.
KW - Built environment
KW - Circular Economy
KW - Closed loop supply chain
KW - Industrial Ecology
KW - Supply chain collaboration
KW - Sustainable innovation
UR - http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:91140c90-9726-4a1a-bcac-0171df833128
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.010
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85037657872
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 176
SP - 976
EP - 989
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
ER -