Archetypical CBMs in Construction and a Translation to Industrialized Manufacture

Charlotte Heesbeen and Alejandro Prieto
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Charlotte Heesbeen: Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology; Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
Alejandro Prieto: Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology; Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: The circular economy is a widely accepted concept that various governments have started to adopt. Still, a major consumer of resources, the construction industry, struggles to implement business models that answer to the opportunity and generate value beyond economical. At the same time, the industry is at a threshold of intensifying their production by industrialized manufacture. This type of construction offers practical benefits and should be developed whilst prioritizing a sustainably built environment. A circular economy business model (CBM) offers all stakeholders long term value and revenue whilst moving towards a sustainable environment. The business model canvas (BMC) is a tool to shed light on the essential characteristics of a CBM, its value, and alignment in a multi-life cycle perspective. It can contribute to accelerating circular innovation in construction. This study aims to provide an overview of archetypical CBMs in construction based on a literature review and a systematic coding exercise using the BMC. The archetypes found are used to describe the characteristics of industrialized manufacture in the various circular economy construction scenarios.

Keywords: circular business models; building; industrialized manufacture; industrialized construction; archetypes; circular economy; built environment; building products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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