What we should be considering for circular building design
Today's guest blog is authored by Jon Smieja of GreenBiz Group. The original post can be read here.
We spend over 90 percent of our time indoors. Most of you are probably reading this newsletter indoors. Have you ever spent time thinking about circularity in the built environment? The question I’m thinking about today is: Can buildings be truly circular?
We are a long way from that ideal future right now, so I took a look at some of the numbers for construction and demolition (C&D) and building waste, and suggest a couple strategies to move this sector towards circularity.
Let’s start with a couple of staggering numbers:
- We generate an estimated 600 million tons of C&D waste each year in the U.S. This number is double that of all municipal…
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