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A review of europe’s circular economy in the building sector
| dc.contributor.author | Mrad, Cyrine | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ribeiro, Luís Frölén | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-01-06T14:11:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-01-06T14:11:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article evaluates Europe’s building sector’s circular economy (CE). This industry is responsible for 42% of energy consumption, more than 50% of extracted materials, 30% of Europe’s water and waste generation, and 35% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study focuses on peer-reviewed articles from Scopus and Web of Science databases. Of the first 1750 publications, 2.9% were eligible for a full-text reading and analysis. Most of the trending studies, 92%, promote the circular economy concept through construction materials rather than analyzing the impact of the construction sector on the environment and finding solutions for better implementation, and 41% promote recycling and reuse as the only options. New Design solutions are in 12% of the studies, six-fold more than Law and Legislation, which is only 2%. Finding an optimal combination of assessing the life cycle of buildings and components and searching for different ways of managing the Construction and Demolition Waste at end-of-life is between 33% and 39%. Ultimately, CE proposed frameworks for the building industry based on 10R principles variations were evaluated. An alternative framework for a circular strategy for the building industry that focuses on Upcycling, replacing the Recover principle is presented. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Luís Frölén Ribeiro was funded by national funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, through Project UIDB/50022/2020—LAETA. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mrad, Cyrine; Ribeiro, Luís Frölén (2022). A Review of europe’s circular economy in the building sector. Sustainability. ISSN 2071-1050. 14:21 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/su142114211 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2071-1050 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/26382 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/1917804 | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Circular economy | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Building sector | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Europe | pt_PT |
| dc.title | A review of europe’s circular economy in the building sector | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 21 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 14211 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Sustainability | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 14 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Ribeiro | |
| person.givenName | Luís Frölén | |
| person.identifier | 214770 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 7816-27A0-164D | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-4336-6216 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 55938870500 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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