Category framework | Categories | Examples |
Refuse (R0); Rethink (R1); Reduce (R2). | Services are, e.g., square meters office space; parking space. These can be preserved for instance through rearrangements and adaptable designs. Rethinking the purpose can reduce the need for demolition and refuse the need to build new. | |
Refurbish (R5) | Products are whole buildings or parts of buildings. These can be refurbished. | |
Reuse (R3); Repurpose (R7) | Components are building products: Windows frames, doors, whole bricks, prefabricated elements, etc. These can be preserved through reuse, and repurposing (upcycling). | |
Recycle, downcycle (R8) | Materials are, e.g., crushed bricks and concrete and wooden parts for chipboards, and these are mainly recycled (downcycled). | |
Recover (R9) | Embodied energy is, e.g., biogenic carbon in wood materials. The energy is recovered through, e.g., incineration. | |
Material or product level/service, organisational level, or building level | ||
Building complex, cities and regions | ||
National level | ||
(A1-A3) | The phase includes: Extraction of raw materials; Transportation to manufacturing; Material production | |
(A4-A5) | Transportation to construction site; New construction (installation) | |
(B1-B5) | Commissioning; Maintenance; Repair; Replacement; Renovation; Energy consumption for heating and building operation; Water consumption | |
(C1-C4) | Demolition; Transportation to waste treatment; Waste treatment, Landfill | |
(D) | Reuse/Recycling and potential for recycling | |
Processes are activities, e.g., policy responses, workshops, collaborations | ||
Outputs are the results of processes, e.g., number of workshops. | ||
An outcome may represent a change in a group of people, organizations, or places, such as increased reuse or recycling. | ||
Impacts are the long-term effects on environment, society, and the economy. | ||
The scope includes ecological metrics | ||
The scope includes ecological metrics, as well as economic performance, and social equity |
Greenhouse gas reduction | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Improved knowledge and knowledge sharing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Increased design for disassembly | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Increased knowledge of materials in existing buildings | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Increased recycling of CDW | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Increased reuse of CDW | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Increased sorting of CDW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Increased use of biobased construction materials | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Increased use of digital tool to track materials | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Increased use of existing building mass | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Increased use of selective demolition | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Reduce amount of CDW | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Reduce fossil energy use in buildings | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Reduce the amount of hazardous waste | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Resource efficiency | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
DK | FI | IS | NO | SE |