Circular Economy Forum

The CE Forum is chaired by UKGBC and is designed to be a confidential space to learn from each other’s experiences, success as well as failure and meets quarterly.  

The CE Forum Working Group is a smaller working group that is member-run. It has been set up to address specific topics that several forum members wish to make further progress on. UKGBC helps scope and set up the working groups and help promote the outputs, while the main work is done by the members of this group. They provide progress updates at the quarterly forum meetings but progress their work outside of the meetings. The fortnightly meetings of this group also serve as sessions to discuss industry news on circular economy and have established a close-knit network of highly experienced industry professionals associated with UKGBC. 

To express interest to participate please email circular@ukgbc.org 

Circular Economy Forum Resources

As part of the forum’s work, they collaborate to create resources that help educate and shine a spotlight on key issues related to circular economy in the built environment.

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Blogs

The Challenges and Opportunities of Reusing Steel

Roy Fishwick, Managing Director at Cleveland Steel and Tubes discusses challenges of steel reuse based on his experience.

28 Jun, 2022

Resource Use Blog

Reusing steel: how do you know what your second-hand steelwork is going to look like?

Elliottwood’s, Director & Head of Sustainability, Penny Gowler discusses what the second-hand steelwork market could look like moving forward, and what built environment professionals should expect.

9 Jun, 2022

Resource Use Blog

The Do’s and Don’ts for Deconstructability

In this blog, UKGBC’s Sustainability Advisor Kai Liebetanz and the members of the Circular Economy Forum working group share the do’s and don’t for deconstructability.

21 Feb, 2022

Resource Use Blog

Defining Reuse: Why adopting ISO definitions will help encourage circularity

Rachel Hoolahan from Orms answers the question ‘what is reuse?’ and explains the role it can have in a sustainable built environment.

13 Sep, 2021

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Events

Past event

Circular Steel

In-person event focussing on the current challenges and possible solutions to steel reuse

1 Jul, 2022

Event

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Our climate change mitigation work is made possible due thanks to the generous support of our Advancing Net Zero Programme Partners

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The Circular Economy Forum is generously support by our 3 partners who make this industry leading work possible,

Circular Economy

The built environment needs to move away from the linear economy and embrace circularity. This will reduce waste, carbon emissions and our impact on the natural world.

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