Call for widespread use of materials passports in construction
A new policy paper offers recommendations to enable meaningful material reuse in the built environment.
Materials Passports: Accelerating Material Reuse in Construction has been produced by architects Orms in collaboration with Lancaster University, UK.
The report states the purpose is to enable widespread use of materials passports to support a circular economy, by creating "achieveable deliverables" for all projects with policy to support this.
The authors have created guidance and templates to enable immediate adoption of material passports at any scale, location or phase of design.
Lancaster University and Orms have also announced partnership on a project to accelerate the reuse of building materials, by proposing building deconstruction rather than demolition and using ‘material passports’.
The project’s focus on embodied carbon is seen as a fundamental step towards meeting the net-zero targets defined by the UK government.
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