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The Centre for Circular Construction is the Circular Initiative of the Year
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The Centre for Circular Construction received the award for the Circular Initiative of the Year at the Recycling Gala, which was held at Berns in Stockholm on 1 December 2021.
The jury’s reasoning for the award was as follows: “With the ambition of being the common arena and marketplace for its sector, and introducing circularity and reuse on a large scale in an area where it’s really needed, this year’s winner is a truly worthy recipient. The Circular Initiative of the Year is awarded to the Centre for Circular Construction, CCBuild.”
“WE’RE NOW HOPING THAT MORE WILL TAG ALONG!” Johanna Andersson, project manager at IVL, works with CCBuild’s network and is delighted at this recognition:
“It’s brilliant that the thing we’ve been toiling away at for more than seven years is attracting such positive attention. We are so happy that the industry has woken up and is starting to follow along on the journey towards more circular flows in the construction and real estate sectors. We’re now hoping that more will tag along!”
DEFEATED HEAVYWEIGHT FINALISTS The Recycling Gala is hosted by Recycling magazine and its business partners. The award for Circular Initiative of the Year goes to a party that has presented an innovation, business model or technology, for example, that stimulates circular flows of materials and resources. And there were two heavyweight finalists who lost out to CCBuild: Volvo Cars and Coca-Cola.
“The fact that interest in reuse is increasing is extremely pleasing. CCBuild is a great example of how we can work actively in various ways to improve the conditions for large-scale reuse and thereby reduce the construction sector’s climate impact,” said Marie Fossum Strannegård, CEO of IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
Read more about CCBuild on their website, ccbuild.se To find out more about the Centre for Circular Construction, please contact: Johanna Andersson, johanna.andersson@ivl.se, tel. 010-788 67 62 Name: Johanna Andersson
Age: 45 years
Function at IVL: Senior project manager within sustainable construction, Gothenburg
Background: Studied at Chalmers to gain an M.Sc. in civil engineering, bachelor’s degree in human ecology at the University of Gothenburg, work at Skanska Sverige AB and Bygg-Fast Projekt AB. At IVL since 2011.
When the Centre for Circular Construction won the award for Circular Initiative of the Year, several of the parties involved in the project were present and were delighted by this success. In the middle are project coordinator Carina Loh Lindholm (brown skirt) and Johanna Andersson (blue dress), who both work at IVL. (Photo: Mikael Gustavsen)
IVL CONTRIBUTES TO THE GLOBAL GOALS THROUGH:
5. Gender equality 8. Decent working conditions and economic growth 9. Sustainable industry, innovation and infrastructure 11.3 Inclusive and sustainable urbanisation 11.6 Reducing the environmental impact of cities 11.B Implementing strategies for inclusion, resource efficiency and disaster risk reduction 12.2 Sustainable management and use of natural resources 12.4 Responsible management of chemicals and waste 12.5 Significantly reducing the amount of waste 12.6 Encouraging companies to apply sustainable methods and sustainability reporting 12.7 Promoting sustainable methods for public procurement 12.8 Increasing public awareness of sustainable lifestyles 13. Climate action
