Circular economy

Material availability, resource conservation and construction prices are increasingly focusing on the recyclability and life cycle of construction products. With the advent of the Taxonomy Regulation and the ESG targets in the EU, it is important for all market participants to become fit in terms of sustainable procurement. The trend shows that in future, contracts will be awarded more to providers who can meet certain sustainability targets - from the procurement of raw materials to operations and recycling. This will also affect the construction industry to a large extent.

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To date, the demand for primary raw materials has far exceeded the supply of waste materials, but in the future, more and more buildings built in the post-war years will be sent to the waste management sector and can be made available to the construction industry as secondary raw materials. In addition, the availability of primary raw materials will continue to decrease.

The concept of the circular economy aims to ensure that products, materials and components are reused and recycled within a cycle and that hardly any waste is produced at the end. The circular economy begins with the intelligent design of products and materials and encompasses the entire life cycle of products and services. At the end of its life cycle, it should be possible to recycle a product as completely as possible and recover the raw materials it contains. The overall view also includes material, water and energy reduction during the individual production steps.

The circular economy conserves natural resources and is a prerequisite for achieving climate targets.

Santa Elisabetta House for senior citizens

The Villaggio Santa Elisabetta nursing home is located between Bressanone and Varna, in northern Italy. The facility aims to achieve sustainable devel...

Recyclinghouse Hannover

The motto ‘waste nothing’ applies particularly to this house in Hanover: the recycling house aims to significantly reduce waste and grey energy in the...

Vienna Patent Office

The European Patent Office in Vienna - located between Belvedere Palace and the Botanical Gardens - is undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment. The b...

EDEN factory building

The ERDEN factory building is located in the small municipality of Schlins in Vorarlberg - a pioneering project that was specially designed for the pr...

Administration building Association for Rural Development

The Association for Rural Development (VLE) Upper Palatinate has realised a pioneering project with the construction of its new administration buildin...

Head building Hall 118, Winterthur storage area

The Abendrot Foundation has erected a shimmering red lighthouse for climate-friendly and sustainable construction on the Sulzer site in Winterthur - c...

Eichstätt Service Centre

The district of Eichstätt has had three interconnected buildings constructed on a plot of land where the vocational school workshops used to be. There...

Sportpark Ost Regensburg

A new sports centre with an indoor swimming pool and athletics hall is being built near the former Prinz Leopold barracks. Joint planning allows syner...

Campus Rauner school complex

The old Rauner primary school, a sprawling conglomerate from the 1960s, was partially demolished. In its place, a compact, three-storey building is no...

glemm21

In the interior of the new headquarters of Rieder Facades GmbH, numerous elements were reused according to the ‘Reuse and Recycle’ principle, such as ...

Schönberg estate Schwarzach

Recycled concrete from the demolition of an old office and staff building belonging to the Austrian Federal Forests was used for the new Schönberg hou...

Cube One TU Nürnberg

The first building of the new campus of the Technical University of Nuremberg (UTN), Cube One, has been home to the Executive Board and various depart...

Korbach Town Hall

With the demolition and new construction of the town hall, the current approaches of urban mining and circular construction were trialled in a solid b...

The Raiqa - the Innsbruck centre quarter

Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG is building a new headquarters between Südtiroler Platz and Bozner Platz, creating a lively neighbourhood in Innsbruck....

Trade centre 16

The "Trade centre 16" in Bergheim near Salzburg is a modernised commercial area that originally consisted of the warehouses of the former mail order c...

Extension and refurbishment BG/BRG Mattersburg

The secondary school in Mattersburg was renovated and extended. An atrium-shaped extension with 18 classes, a new main entrance, cloakrooms and dining...

ASG - Residential complex

The ASG residential complex on the northern edge of Vienna, close to the Marchfeld Canal, comprises two buildings with a striking saw-tooth structure ...

Konrad Lorenz Grammar School

The Konrad-Lorenz-Gymnasium in Gänserndorf, the largest building in the town, was modernised and extended to provide space for 1,000 pupils. A recycle...

Residential building St. Vincent

On the site of a former nursing school in Wangen, the Vinzenz-Quartier was built in 2024 with a total of 122 residential units in six buildings. Three...

District sports hall Wangen

The new three-court sports hall in Wangen was built to replace the ‘old sports hall’, which was around 70 years old, between the north and south vocat...

Projects from the category Circular economy

Winery Michael Bauer

The new wine tavern of the Michael Bauer winery on the outskirts of Mitterstockstall near Kirchberg am Wagram is well hidden in the middle of a courty...

Alpacem Headquarters

With the new Alpacem headquarters, a prime example of the decarbonization of construction was achieved - with CO2-optimized concretes and component ac...

Floriette residential complex

The historic north façade of this old building was extensively renovated in 2022/23 and became the face of the new “Floriette” building. 21 residentia...

Primary school Wals-Siezenheim

The new building for the primary school, after-school care and other communal functions forms an anchor point for the entire town in the no-man's land...

MA 48 Crew building

The MA 48 team building in Vienna-Simmering is the first building to use recycled concrete. The recycled content in the concrete is around 15 - 20 per...

Anif elementary school

The Anif elementary school used 1,067 cubic meters of recycled concrete, which accounts for around 32% of the total in-situ concrete. The recycled con...

Adnet elementary school

A new elementary school is being built in Adnet over a planned construction period of two years. The current school will be renovated and extended usi...

General refurbishment of parliament

Following its general refurbishment, the Austrian Parliament is the first historic building to receive the “klimaaktiv Gold” certificate and is a true...

Heidi Horten Museum

The former chancellery building of Archduke Friedrich, built in 1914 in Hanuschhof, was completely gutted to create 1500 square meters of space for He...

Telegraf 7 Office

Vienna's Lehargasse 7, close to the Naschmarkt, is home to the former telephone exchange of the Imperial and Royal Post and Telegraph Directorate. Pos...

Wohnbau Leyserstrasse

The ‘Rosalie’ residential building in Penzing is part of a neighbourhood development at the Theodor Körner barracks. The barracks park was made access...

Housing project „GeWoZu“

The GeWoZu project combines 12 individual flats for 20 adults and 13 children in a sustainably built terraced house. The use of recycled materials suc...

WSB- Residential complex Wieselburg

The residential complex on the northern edge of Wieselburg consists of four buildings: an arcade type with twelve units and three point blocks with a ...

District sports hall Wangen

The new three-court sports hall in Wangen was built to replace the ‘old sports hall’, which was around 70 years old, between the north and south vocat...

Residential building St. Vincent

On the site of a former nursing school in Wangen, the Vinzenz-Quartier was built in 2024 with a total of 122 residential units in six buildings. Three...

Konrad Lorenz Grammar School

The Konrad-Lorenz-Gymnasium in Gänserndorf, the largest building in the town, was modernised and extended to provide space for 1,000 pupils. A recycle...

ASG - Residential complex

The ASG residential complex on the northern edge of Vienna, close to the Marchfeld Canal, comprises two buildings with a striking saw-tooth structure ...

Extension and refurbishment BG/BRG Mattersburg

The secondary school in Mattersburg was renovated and extended. An atrium-shaped extension with 18 classes, a new main entrance, cloakrooms and dining...

Trade centre 16

The "Trade centre 16" in Bergheim near Salzburg is a modernised commercial area that originally consisted of the warehouses of the former mail order c...

The Raiqa - the Innsbruck centre quarter

Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG is building a new headquarters between Südtiroler Platz and Bozner Platz, creating a lively neighbourhood in Innsbruck....

Korbach Town Hall

With the demolition and new construction of the town hall, the current approaches of urban mining and circular construction were trialled in a solid b...

Cube One TU Nürnberg

The first building of the new campus of the Technical University of Nuremberg (UTN), Cube One, has been home to the Executive Board and various depart...

Schönberg estate Schwarzach

Recycled concrete from the demolition of an old office and staff building belonging to the Austrian Federal Forests was used for the new Schönberg hou...

glemm21

In the interior of the new headquarters of Rieder Facades GmbH, numerous elements were reused according to the ‘Reuse and Recycle’ principle, such as ...

Campus Rauner school complex

The old Rauner primary school, a sprawling conglomerate from the 1960s, was partially demolished. In its place, a compact, three-storey building is no...

Sportpark Ost Regensburg

A new sports centre with an indoor swimming pool and athletics hall is being built near the former Prinz Leopold barracks. Joint planning allows syner...

Eichstätt Service Centre

The district of Eichstätt has had three interconnected buildings constructed on a plot of land where the vocational school workshops used to be. There...

Head building Hall 118, Winterthur storage area

The Abendrot Foundation has erected a shimmering red lighthouse for climate-friendly and sustainable construction on the Sulzer site in Winterthur - c...

Administration building Association for Rural Development

The Association for Rural Development (VLE) Upper Palatinate has realised a pioneering project with the construction of its new administration buildin...

EDEN factory building

The ERDEN factory building is located in the small municipality of Schlins in Vorarlberg - a pioneering project that was specially designed for the pr...

Vienna Patent Office

The European Patent Office in Vienna - located between Belvedere Palace and the Botanical Gardens - is undergoing a comprehensive refurbishment. The b...

Recyclinghouse Hannover

The motto ‘waste nothing’ applies particularly to this house in Hanover: the recycling house aims to significantly reduce waste and grey energy in the...

Santa Elisabetta House for senior citizens

The Villaggio Santa Elisabetta nursing home is located between Bressanone and Varna, in northern Italy. The facility aims to achieve sustainable devel...