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Circularlogic: new processes for building and demolition permits to create an efficient market model for recycling

Reference number
Coordinator RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB - RISE Research Institute of Sweden AB
Funding from Vinnova SEK 2 569 114
Project duration September 2025 - August 2027
Status Ongoing
Venture Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities
Call Impact innovation: Delta i omställningslabb för framtidens attraktiva och tillgängliga livsmiljöer

Purpose and goal

Effective market models and processes for recycling, and the regulatory framework that promotes them, are crucial factors in the transition to a circular built environment. The processes surrounding demolition and building permits have the potential to become tools that accelerate the circular transition. But simply making changes to the regulatory framework is not enough. To achieve change, key stakeholders must establish new value chains that enable access to materials that can be recycled.

Expected effects and result

Through changed demolition and building permit processes, there is an opportunity for a new business ecosystem for recycling where new efficient material flows can be established. With increased knowledge of volumes that are possible to recycle through a changed demolition permit process, while the possibilities for using recycled materials are simplified through a new building permit process, an opportunity is created for a market-based recycling market where supply and demand can be balanced.

Planned approach and implementation

Within the project, we will use ongoing processes as pilots to challenge possible changes within the current regulatory framework, without any actor feeling that they are losing control over their decision or business. The pilots are gathered in work packages based by issue; demolition permit, market model and building permit. Lessons from the three individual work packages are collected in a vertical work package where the goal is to map the possibilities for a new recycling ecosystem.

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Last updated 30 September 2025

Reference number 2025-01233