Building Revolutions

14. Coming full circle

You don't have to do any of this, survival is not mandatory.

Walter R. Stahel

This book demonstrates that circular economy thinking can be applied to buildings and that there are opportunities for those that embrace the ideas to create new business models and designs that enable a transition to a more regenerative built environment.

The cases studies in this book show that there are some visionary and enterprising clients, designers, constructors and manufacturers who are capitalising on the opportunities presented by a circular economy. They have managed to overcome the barriers to change and the inertia in the system to differentiate themselves in the market.

These new ideas respond to the pressing need to slow and ...