Accelerate Circular Construction – Recommendations for Public Authorities
As a part of a transition to more sustainable, circularity is gaining more and more attention from the Nordic construction sectors. It requires, however, a redefinition of current working practices, thereby becoming a multifaceted challenge for the stakeholders throughout the whole value chain.
Public authorities at the local, national, and Nordic levels are well-positioned to support and lead the transition to circular construction through their broad spectrum of areas of responsibility.
To aid that, this research aimed to produce a set of recommendations on how local and national public authorities and the Nordic Council of Ministers can impact circularity in the construction field through advocacy, guidance, and financing. To comprehensively present a Nordic market perspective on circularity, the differences and similarities between Nordic counties had to be addressed.
Therefore, this report provides individual perspectives from five Nordic countries and, eventually, synthesizes these findings in the form of recommendations presented below. The recommendations considered three levels: local/national level, Nordic cooperation, and Nordic advocacy in the EU.
