ANNEX 3 – LONGLIST OF INDICATORS

Long list of indicators

• Academic Laboratories involved with research on CE (or sustainability in regard to CE) in the C&D sector. (e.g., research in building design for CE, research on innovative building materials).
• Accessibility for recycling.
• Adaptability and flexibility in new buildings.
• Adoption of circular business models.
• Amount of unrecoverable CDW.
• Amount of waste that is recycled as the same material (TR6).
• Amount of waste treated for energy recovery.
• Architecture companies/bureaux designing/working with re-usable building components.
• Ashes from energy recovery treatment are recycled as a building material. (TR26)
• Awareness level of CE among the public.
• Bill of quantities, materials and lifespans.
• Biodiversity.
• Building materials with EPDs available.
• Building materials with Material Passport.
• Buildings in use certified by selected certification schemes.
• Buildings where the potential for reuse in construction projects is analysed is higher than 90%.
• Buildings, where building materials are screened before demolition.
• Built-up area.
• Business engagement in waste prevention and reuse.
• Businesses with a certified environmental.
• C&D SME investment per year in resource efficiency activities.
• C2C Material Health Assessment Methodology.
• Capacities developed and trained in CE for CDW management.
• Carbon footprint in the construction sector.
• Chemical material connections.
• Chemically hazardous materials.
• Circular challenges and other initiatives from the public sector.
• Circular material use rate: The circular material use (CMUR) is defined as the ratio of the circular use of materials to the overall material use.
• Circularity properties of buildings.
• Circularity properties of components and materials.
• Circularity properties of rehabilitation projects.
• Co-creation and co-production (i.e. participatory design).
• Collaboration with other industries.
• Collected household waste used as construction material. (TR31).
• Components sized to suit the means of handling.
• Construction and demolition waste / GDP in the construction sector.
• Construction and demolition waste and treatment.
• Construction industries involved in industrial symbiosis.
• Construction industries receiving financial support towards BCDW circularity.
• Construction waste recycled by fractions.
• Contribution of recycled material to raw materials demand.
• Courses available on CE in the universities.
• CPI (Circular economy Performance Indicator.
• Design for adaptability and renovation.
• Design for deconstruction, reuse and recycling.
• Design for disassembly.
• Design for material reuse/durability (reusability or resource-efficiency).
• Design support tools availability.
• Designed for attachment and trust.
• Designed for minimum resource input Designed for emissions minimisation.
• Designed for minimum waste generation.
• Designed for recovery (i.e. material or components).
• Designed for upgrade.
• Development programs put in place for CE in the construction sector.
• Disassembly Effort Index.
• Disassembly requires only common tools and equipment.
• Domestic extraction of resources + Import (measured in Raw Material Equivalents)".
• Domestic extraction of resources + Import (measured in RME) – Export (measured in RME) = DMI – Export (measured in RME)".
• Domestic Material Consumption (DMC): Domestic extraction of resources + Import – Export.
• Domestic Material Input (DMI): Domestic extraction of resources + Import .
• Durability and quality of new buildings.
• Ease of maintenance and cleaning in new buildings.
• Eco-innovation index.

• Economic value of the resources used and the value at the time they are reintroduced into the system.
• Efficient use of water resources.
• Embodied Carbon.
• Embodied Energy.
• Employees in CE-oriented organisations.
• End-of-life management/end-of-life recycling input rates.
• End-of-life recycling input rate (EOL-RIR): The indicator measures, for a given raw material, how much of its input into the production system comes from recycling of "old scrap”, i.e. scrap from end-of-life products. The EOL-RIR does not take into account scrap that originates from manufacturing processes ("new scrap").
• End-of-life recycling input rates (EOL-RIR) (percentage).
• End-of-life recycling input rates (EOL-RIR), aluminium.
• Energy usage from the total life cycle.
• Environmental costs (costs of exhaustion, water pollution, CO₂ emissions, toxicity, and land use).
• Environmental friendly design: The ratio of products and services being eco-labelled with the Nordic Swan.
• Environmental friendly design: The revenue from the eco-label, the Swan.
• Environmental tax revenues as a share of total revenues from taxes and social contributions.
• EVR (Eco-cost value ratio).
• Exhibitions or projects held concretely demonstrating CE strategies in the built environment (e.g., reuse in building construction, architecture/design with reused elements).
• Existing value lost (output).
• Expansion material inputs.
• Expected building lifetime  (new buildings).
• Expected impact of industrial symbiosis and sharing economy.
• Expected lifespan of utilised products, compared to the average life span of status-quo products in the same application.
• Few hazardous materials.
• Fines on landfilling.
• Flexibility of technical solutions in new buildings.
• Frequency of recycling and quantity of CDW recycled.
• Frequency of reuse and quantity of CDW reused.
• Freshwater abstraction by source and sector.

• Fully devalued (waste) materials produced after each use cycle (lower is better).
• Generation of municipal waste per capita.
• Google Search popularity of terms such as "circular economy", "circular construction", "sustainable construction" and similar.
• Green deals.
• Green Public Procurement: Circular economy criteria in GPP.
• Green Public Procurement: The share of public tenders (being subject to EU procurement law), which include environmental elements.
• Green suppliers.
• Gross additions to stock (GAS).
• Gross investments in tangible goods (percentage of GDP at current prices).
• Hazardous waste in the construction sector.
• High-value recycling.
• Impact on the environment.
• Imports in raw material equivalents.
• Initial investment costs.
• Initial value (input) of materials.
• Innovative schemes for CE developed by the government for CDW management.
• Investments: In material goods (in circular sectors) defined as investments in all material goods (in circular indicators) as a share of GDP in the year of reference.
• Investors/real estate project owners or investments in circular buildings or circular real estate projects.
• Joints and materials withstand repeated use (durability).
• Land use change, index.
• Land-use: Share of preserved areas versus industrial purposes.
• Leadership development programs set in place to raise greater awareness among individuals involved with the construction process and develop individuals (in relation to CE).
• Life cycle Global Warming Potential.
• Lifetime of the material in the anthroposphere.
• Lightweight materials.
• Longevity of buildings and components.
• Maintenance material inputs.
• Management systems adapted within building sector companies, e.g. EMAS / ISO".
• Material Circularity Indicator (MCI).
• Material circularity indicator CIRC (actual cumulative service in per cent of maximal service).
• Material efficiency score: SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets.
• Material outputs from stock.
• Material rejected for material recycling used for energy recovery.
• Material stocks (MS)of non-metallic minerals.
• Material stocks (MS)of non-metallic minerals.
• Materials available for the next cycle (output).
• Materials collected and resold by retailers.
• Materials lost (output).
• Materials restored and their quality: Contamination, Tramp element content.
• Materials used (in-put).
• Materials with local high-value recycling potential after each use cycle (lower is better).
• Metals recycled from waste ashes from energy recovery treatment.
• Mineral depletion indicator.
• Minimisation of waste on construction sites.
• Modular design.
• Municipalities with circularity goals regarding municipal buildings.
• National standards under CEN / TC 350/SC.
• Net additions to stock (NAS).
• New buildings certified within a sustainability system (DGNB, Svanemærket, etc.).
• New construction projects applying Building Information Modelling (BIM) for the assessment of materials flows.
• Number of EPDs for “circular” materials.
• Number of EU Taxonomy-aligned buildings.
• Often divided into fossil energy, non-metallic minerals, metallic minerals, biomass, others.
• Open buildings system.
• Origins of the materials used.
• Patents related to recycling and secondary materials.
• Per capita stock expansion.
• Platforms for exchange/sales of reused building materials.
• Platforms: (Extra) utilisation of (public) buildings monitored via platforms.
• Platforms: Activity or frequency level of products/materials reuse platforms (number of times people visit the platform page, number of times people offer reusable products, number of times architects/designers buy from these reuse platforms).
• Platforms: Material efficiency audit data collected through digital platform.
• Platforms: Online social collaboration platforms that bring together CE organisations and members of those organisations worldwide, enabling more collaboration, sharing, and overall communication.
• Platforms: Utilisation of secondary resources through 3rd party platforms.
• Platforms: Variability of reusable elements collected, offered on reuse platforms and available for designers to choose from Reverse logistics and take back schemes set in place.
• Position in the waste hierarchy. Total waste generation is multiplied by a step value for each step in the waste hierarchy to produce a score value of the position of a given waste system in the waste hierarchy.
• Private investments, jobs, and gross value added related to circular economy sectors.
• Product-Level Circularity Indicator.
• Product, components, and material retention rate.
• Products and components collected for reuse by the municipality or NGOs at recycling stations or reuse areas.
• Provision for ‘realistic’ tolerances for assembly and disassembly.
• PSS solutions within the sector (market share).
• Quality in new buildings.
• Raw Material Consumption (RMC).
• Raw Material Input (RMI).
• Recirculated economic value from EoL components over total product value.
• Recovery rate of construction and demolition waste.
• Recyclability of component.
• Recycled content in buildings.
• Recycled material value/resale value.
• Recycled materials as part of the total amount of raw materials for construction.
• Recycling efficiency rate.
• Recycling rate of all waste, excluding major mineral waste: (Recycled waste / treated waste).
• Recycling rate of municipal waste: The share of municipal waste being recycled of the total waste amount.
• Recycling rate within the C&D sector for a range of fractions, including overall packaging, plastic packaging, packaging based on wood, electronic waste, biowaste and construction and demolition.
• Refurbishment rate.
• Rehabilitation projects with reuse of buildings at least 20%.
• Rejected material for material recycling sent to landfill.
• Repairability (availability of repair manuals or spare parts or products designed for maintenance).
• Resource productivity in construction.
• Resource security: kg resources extracted per kg DMI.
• Resource- and carbon footprints.
• Reuse generated by reuse operators or households.
• Reuse in public works.
• Reuse potential assessed through digital material passport of buildings.
• Reuse potential indicator (RPI) assesses based on current technologies if a material is seen as material or waste.
• Reused material of total C&D waste.
• Reversible mechanical connections.
• Roadmaps for CDW management availability.
• Robustness of new buildings.
• Running and replacement costs.
• Scientific articles on CE in buildings.
• Self-sufficiency for raw material.
• Self-sufficiency for raw materials, aluminium.
• Self-sufficiency in renewable energy.
• Separated in many different types of waste from construction, including all types of hazardous waste."
• Service generated by material consumption.
• Servitisation (i.e. product service system).
• Share of certified building projects.
• Simplicity in construction: The number of connections (lower is better).
• Simplicity in construction: The number of different material types (lower is better).
• Simplicity in construction: The numbers different types of connections (lower is better).
• Sorting of waste at construction sites.
• Structured Facility Management documentation in new buildings.
• Students applying for CE-related studies at university.
• Supply chain footprint of regenerative flows.
• Targets in place regarding public  buildings (e.g. repurpose).
• Taxes on landfilling (amount/ton of waste).
• TCA in new buildings.

• The degree to which CE infrastructures are in place.
• The impact of extraction of raw materials.
• The ratio of virgin materials to recycled, re-used or rapidly renewable materials.
• The use of renewable, recycled and sustainable raw materials in new buildings.
• Times of Use of a Material (NTUM).
• Total renovations vs demolition and new buildings.
• Trade in recyclable raw materials: Between EU-states.
• Trade in recyclable raw materials: Export of recyclable raw materials from non-EU countries.
• Trade in recyclable raw materials: Import of recyclable raw materials from non-EU countries.
• Trained environment- and resource-coordinators.
• Treatment of hazardousness mineral waste from construction by waste management option.
• Treatment of waste by waste category, hazardousness and waste management operations.
• Turnover from reused construction- and demolition materials sold by retailer.
• Urban waste management costs.
• Use of cement per m² created.
• Use stage energy performance.
• Utilisation rate of existing building stock.
• Value available for the next cycle (output).
• Value-based resource efficiency (VRE).
• Virgin mineral materials produced and used in the building sector.
• Voluntary collaboration towards CE for CDW.
• Waste amounts treated as landfill, including waste rejected from other fractions.
• Waste amounts treated by energy recovery, including waste rejected from other fractions.
• Waste amounts treated by material recovery, including waste rejected from other fractions.
• Waste amounts used as construction material, including waste rejected from other fractions.
• Waste and resource management.
• Waste being deposited.
• Waste being generated from the construction sector.
• Waste from building site.
• Waste from construction, renovation and demolition activities.
• Waste material used in the production of new materials (roofing felt, concrete, gypsum, wood chipboards, Rockwool).
• Waste materials being recycled. Separated in a large number of different types of waste from construction, including all types of hazardous waste.
• Waste materials ratio to reusable and/or recyclable materials generated when a building is refurbished or demolished.
• Waste materials treated for energy recovery from the construction sector. Separated into many different types of waste from construction, including all types of hazardous waste.
• Waste produced in the city.
• Waste that is recycled as construction material, backfill and landfill cover.
• Waste volumes from the construction sector in relation to value-added, goods procurement, production and turnover within the same sector.
• Water productivity.
• Water usage in the use phase.
• Water use: Amount of used water in relation to accessible water.
• Water, land, material footprints, or a combination thereof (footprint dashboard).
• Workshops and exhibitions: Visitors at exhibitions and workshops regarding circular construction.
• Workshops: Different partners from the construction industry/built environment sector addressed by CE workshops brought together, attending, and addressed by CE workshops.