How to Reuse in Commercial Buildings

Last updated 11 days ago

Developed by: Hennepin County, MN
Description: "Building Circularity MN is a Hennepin County-led collaboration focused on helping Minnesota designers and building owners increase circularity and reduce waste on construction and renovation projects. The collaboration offers both project-level technical help and an entrepreneur training program. The two-year initiative is funded by a grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency with the goal of growing Minnesota’s reuse economy. Free technical help is available to property owners, architects, developers, and design teams to support the specification and implementation of reused materials on commercial building projects."

Developed by: Hennepin County, MSR Design, Center for Sustainable Building Research, Doors Unhinged
Description: "This guide is for owners, architects and contractors looking to integrate circularity into the design, construction and operation of buildings by utilizing reclaimed materials and by implementing deconstruction. A number of guides and reports address the topic of deconstruction, but as an industry we cannot focus exclusively on deconstruction. To close the loop and create a circular economy, owners and architects must include reclaimed materials in new designs."

Developed by: Green Standards
Description: "This report is our best effort to capture exactly where the circular workplace is now. To do this, we have engaged a diverse coalition ranging from multinational corporations to innovative startups to industry associations to independent consultants. All agree that circularity has to be much bigger than recycling. All have made significant progress toward circular workplaces. And all agree there is much, much more to do."

Last updated 11 days ago

Developed by: Hennepin County, MN
Description: "Building Circularity MN is a Hennepin County-led collaboration focused on helping Minnesota designers and building owners increase circularity and reduce waste on construction and renovation projects. The collaboration offers both project-level technical help and an entrepreneur training program. The two-year initiative is funded by a grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency with the goal of growing Minnesota’s reuse economy. Free technical help is available to property owners, architects, developers, and design teams to support the specification and implementation of reused materials on commercial building projects."

Developed by: Hennepin County, MSR Design, Center for Sustainable Building Research, Doors Unhinged
Description: "This guide is for owners, architects and contractors looking to integrate circularity into the design, construction and operation of buildings by utilizing reclaimed materials and by implementing deconstruction. A number of guides and reports address the topic of deconstruction, but as an industry we cannot focus exclusively on deconstruction. To close the loop and create a circular economy, owners and architects must include reclaimed materials in new designs."

Developed by: Green Standards
Description: "This report is our best effort to capture exactly where the circular workplace is now. To do this, we have engaged a diverse coalition ranging from multinational corporations to innovative startups to industry associations to independent consultants. All agree that circularity has to be much bigger than recycling. All have made significant progress toward circular workplaces. And all agree there is much, much more to do."