REVERT Framework: Stakeholder Perspective to Enable Circular Transformation of Construction Industry

Abstract

The stakeholders in various industries focus on developing innovative preventions to increase environmental, economic, and social sustainability to tackle the negative impacts of climate change. Hence, the interest in transitioning from a linear to a circular model has gained momentum in the last decade. The circular economy (CE), therefore, has attracted the construction industry stakeholders to adopt the sustainable model based on the CE principles because it is the most resource-consuming and waste-producing industry. Recycling the materials and construction and demolition waste, reusing the building components, renovating and refurbishing the buildings, adapting circular building design principles, innovating for a regenerative built environment, developing circular supply chains, and enabling circular business models are the core topics to ground this new model. However, the more perspectives, the more challenging the transition. Therefore, circular transition in the construction industry becomes compelling since it has complex and distributed collaborations due to its nature. Although the number of studies has increased, the circular construction industry from the stakeholder perspective still needs to be explored. Within this point of view, this study aims to present a new framework developed to increase stakeholder collaboration for circular transition at micro, meso, and macro-scales. It approaches the micro-scale for materials, meso-scale for buildings, and macro-scale for cities. Besides, it considers the construction industry target groups determined by the European Commission to demonstrate the circular building design principles. The research obtains data by literature review, maps the findings at micro, meso, and macro-scales, and employs natural language processing (NLP) to analyze the CE strategies. Followingly, it constructs thirty-seven success factors to treat the strategies obtained by NLP. Consequently, the REVERT framework based on six dimensions and thirty-seven success factors is introduced to consider stakeholder collaboration for circular transformation in the construction industry.