Our Resources
Dissertation by Reetta Saikku, Edinburgh Napier University
‘An evaluation of a construction materials management facility for Edinburgh as part of the circular economy’
In 2022, the Plan A team were approached by, Reetta Saikku, a student in the Environmental Sustainability School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment. With a keen interest in the circular economy, Reetta was interested in exploring the future plans for Plan A and this became the focus of her dissertation.
You can read it in full HERE.
EALA Impacts response to the Scottish Government’s Circular Economy Roadmap
“The Circular Economy is a term for a regenerative way of looking at materials and systems. Rather than taking, making, and wasting, this approach keeps value in the process, at the least wasting nothing and potentially repairing damage that has been done.
We can re-use materials where, once deemed no longer useful where they are (during refurbishment or demolition), we can recover them and use them elsewhere. We can do this through a pre-demolition audit and the use of circular economy hubs.” - EALA Impacts
Read their full response to the Scottish Government’s Circular Economy Roadmap HERE.
Other resources
FCRBE. “Driven by an ambition to change the current state of play the Interreg NWE project entitled FCRBE began in 2019. The project aims to increase the amount of reclaimed building materials in circulation by 50% by 2032. Focused on the northern half of France, Belgium and the UK, the project also covers, to a lesser extent, the Netherlands, Ireland, the rest of France and Luxembourg.”
ROTOR “Rotor DC is a cooperative company which is entirely owned by its employees. We are based in Brussels, and we attempt to be as generous with this city as it is with us. We seek to collaborate with contractors, non-profits and other companies, and to become a central part of a regional ecosystem for large scale reuse of building materials. While at the start in 2014, we almost exclusively sold materials dismantled by our own workers, our shop now also trades materials from several other suppliers such as demolition contractors and real estate companies.”
Resiquel “Resirqel is one of Norway's leading competence companies for reuse in the construction and property industry. We contribute to a circular economy in the construction and property industry with effective and measurable measures for circular resource utilization. Through documented experience, we have established ourselves as a leading player in re-use in Norway, with recognized expertise in re-use mapping.”
“Concular the leading company for circular construction in Germany, is on a mission to transform the construction sector by ensuring today's resources remain available for future generations. Founded in 2020 with a team of 65 experts in six locations, it has consulted and executed more than 350 projects focused on circular construction—developing new processes, digital tools and circular value chains.”
SALVO “SalvoWEB.com is a global platform for anyone and everyone, from DIYers to designers, architects and builders, matching something reclaimed or recrafted with someone who wants to reuse it.”