This report provides a general framework for circular buildings and proposes concrete strategies and indicators for possible inclusion in BREEAM New Construction and Refurbishment & Fit-Out (NC & RFO). The aim of the report is twofold: to provide stakeholders from government, business and academia with a basic framework to approach circularity in buildings, and to accelerate the transition to a circular built environment by suggesting strategies and indicators for integrations into leading global standards for sustainable buildings like BREEAM.

The definitions used in the framework are aligned with the Transition Agenda for circular construction in The Netherlands. The proposed strategies further build on the strategies presented in the recently published Roadmap for Circular Land Tendering as well as on a range of existing frameworks and tools. The suggested indicators are either adaptations of existing indicators in BREEAM RFO and NC, or entirely new indicators. The final list of suggested indicators was created with input from external experts.