Resources
Circular Economy For Dummies
Circular Economy For Dummies explores how shifting from a linear to a circular economy saves money, eliminates waste, and promotes sustainability. It covers business innovation, material lifecycles, and circular design across industries. Whether you want to green your lifestyle or optimize resources in your business, this book offers practical insights on turning waste into value while contributing to a sustainable future.
Constructing a Circular Economy in New York State: Deconstruction and Building Material Reuse
The White Paper, Constructing a Circular Economy in NYS: Deconstruction and Building Material Reuse, provides an in-depth analysis of New York State’s current linear construction economy. It assesses the economic, environmental, and social potential of deconstruction and material reuse. The paper concludes with state-level policy and practice recommendations to support policymakers and government agencies in advancing a circular economy in New York State
Building Better - Less - Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy: Fundamentals, Case Studies, Strategies
The Building Better – Less – Different series explores sustainability through five volumes, each examining two core aspects. It follows the principles of efficiency (“better”), sufficiency (“less”), and consistency (“different”). The first volume focuses on circularity in construction, highlighting urban mining, design for disassembly, material passports, and circular economy strategies beyond recycling, including community projects, service models, and carbon pricing incentives.
Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide
Reclaimed Wood: A Field Guide is the first comprehensive handbook on reclaimed wood, blending history, sourcing, and practical design insights. Showcasing the beauty and versatility of salvaged wood from historic structures, it explores its origins, reclamation process, and modern applications in architecture and design
Online Resources
New York City Cirular Initiative
The New York Circular City Initiative unites city officials, businesses, foundations, and academic institutions to transform New York’s economy through sustainable, cross-sector solutions. Its vision is to eliminate landfill waste, minimize environmental pollution, and create thousands of quality jobs by intelligently utilizing products and raw materials.
NYCEDC
NYC is leading the way in decarbonizing the built environment by adopting Circular Design & Construction Guidelines to reduce waste and embodied carbon. Aiming for a 50% reduction in embodied carbon by 2033, these guidelines promote circular economy principles, support job creation, and improve sustainability in construction. They provide strategies, requirements, and goals to ensure NYCEDC capital projects integrate circular design and construction practices.
ReUse Consulting
Re-Use Consulting promotes viewing buildings as resources rather than waste. As an international consulting firm, they work with demolition contractors, reuse operations, building owners, and architects to provide sustainable alternatives to demolition. They also offer job training programs and assist clients in selling reclaimed materials.
De-Construction Services LLC
De-Construction Services is a licensed, bonded and insured contractor in the State of Washington providing sustainable alternatives to demolition. De-Construction Services works on projects throughout the Pacific Northwest from kitchen remodels to multistory buildings.
Building Deconstruction Institute
The Building Deconstruction Institute provides individual and group training on various aspects of the reuse industry including building deconstruction, re-manufacturing, repair, creating a circular economy, creating reclaimed value-added products, designing for disassembly, running a reuse store, and more!