A wide range of solutions exist which can facilitate the creation, storage, and use of materials passports, making it easier for manufacturers, designers, and owners to store and reference valuable information about the composition of their products and buildings. Many of these solutions can help collect key product and sustainability information including data from EPDs, health and wellbeing information, circularity metrics, and more. Additionally, materials passports can include information related to the manufacture, testing, and warranty of products to enable better due diligence and improve insurability.

These solutions can facilitate the creation of materials passports at a variety of levels from individual materials and products to wider building systems. Many also provide some level of interoperability with other digital tools like BIM, LCA calculators, digital twins, or digital reuse hubs. By utilising these solutions, valuable information can be better collected and utilised across the built environment supply chain to encourage more sustainable and circular decisions in the future.

ReLearn wants to revolutionise the waste sorting system. ReLearn’s smart sensor, NANDO, is the solution to constantly monitor waste production with professional reporting while spreading sustainable practices to the community in an engaging way.

ReLearn installs the small IoT sensor on a customer’s existing bins and then uses artificial intelligence to collect data on the amount and type of waste produced on a daily basis.

NANDO reports the quantity and quality of waste through precise data on a dashboard creating a professional report according to the GRI 306 standard. Customers are also able to monitor their live recycling rate, recycling trends and projected recycling patterns.

NANDO spreads sustainable practices to achieve the best recycling rate in an office space. To increase community involvement and effectively transfer corporate values, internal challenges can be developed between different floors or different locations through the platform. ReLearn also uses the data to identify the most common mistakes in waste differentiation and then educate users on how to correct them.

NANDO increases the availability of waste information for sustainability reporting avoiding fines. It also increases ESG score by monitoring and improving waste performance and improves LEED score with waste monitoring. NANDO is a partner of Arc Skoru and the US Green Building Council.

ReLearn’s business model is based on an activation fee per installer sensor and an annual subscription fee per sensor.

The K-BRIQ® is a resource-efficient construction brick made from inert recycled input materials. It is suitable for applications currently met by traditional bricks and blocks in exterior and interior environments. It has comparable strength to traditional bricks and blocks and high thermal mass, and a competitive technical specification.

The K-SLIP™ is made from the same materials and offers a brickslip and tile alternative for sustainable interiors and, also for the off-site sector which favours brickslip facades which can be efficiently installed in factory conditions.

Kenoteq’s production process does not require high temperature firing, virgin cement or high volumes of clay for its production. The K-BRIQ® is made from 95% inert recycled content, over 90% of which comes from recycled construction and demolition waste.

The K-Briq is in its final stages of BBA certification in the UK allowing its commercial use from Spring 2023. Its Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificate and Design Guide will also be available in 2024, the latter specifying both traditional and lime mortars. The K-Slip, whilst suitable now within interiors, will be certified for external use by late 2023/early 2024.

The K-Briq and K-Slip are available in a range of thirteen stock colours, all made from recycled pigments. Kenoteq also offer a colour matching service and can produce bespoke options.

Kenoteq is currently working with BRE on its EPD and BBA certification.

As it launches in the UK market in 2023, with production hitting 3 million bricks this year, the K-Briq is initially positioned as a premium product in the brick facing and façade market, based on its superior sustainability credentials, appealing aesthetics and flexible design potential given the opportunity for colour-matching and bespoke colour development. The K-Briq is a premium product, and the final price will be dependent on volumes, time frames and choice of colour palette.

Mökki makes access to the circular economy easy:

• Users drop their items at the nearest Mökki space.
• Mökki takes care of the rest, from reselling to donations and recycling with its selected partners.
• Users get the resale price (if sold) and can view the impact of their item’s sale/donation in terms of saved eq. CO2 on their personal dashboard.
• The service is 100% free for end users.

How does it work behind the scenes?

• Mökki staff collect the items and transfer them to a central warehouse using a cargo bike.
• The items are sorted in the warehouse between reselling, donation and recycling, depending on user preferences and item condition.
• Mökki works with sustainable partners for each item category (e.g. with Reflaunt for reselling premium fashion items).
• Mökki’s in-house technology manages its operations and measures the impact of its activities (saved eq. CO2) which is then shared with both users (dashboard) and B2B clients (quarterly reporting).

The effectiveness of the solution is measured in terms of number of saved objects and saved eq. CO2.

The objective of Mökki’s real estate clients is to offer services to their tenants, make their buildings more attractive, accelerate the leasing time and increasing their positive environmental impact. Mökki adoption rate is on average 3x higher than the mainstream alternative: on average, 30%+ of building users use Mökki. Landlords are another group that are actively looking for services with a positive impact, for their own ESG strategy and/or to make their buildings more attractive. Traditional services often communicate on how they minimize the negative externalities of their service. Mökki service has a positive environmental and social impact by design, which is a strong differentiation.

There are two options to deploy Mökki service:

• Classic Mökki with dedicated space and staff in the building.
• Mökki Lite service based on building existing staff (e.g. reception people) using Mökki’s technology.

The cost of a Classic Mökki depends on the opening hours and the size of the building.

OGEL provides an easy-to-assemble, fully reusable modular building system that uses waste plastic as its raw materials.

In terms of Resource Use, OGEL is a ‘Full-stop product’. The aim of the product is to utilise recycled material rather than virgin material, with the final product having an especially long life cycle.

In terms of addressing the impacts of climate change, the system can work as a fast-build flood defence barrier as well as a disaster relief shelter due to it being lightweight, modular and quick to install and dismantle.

The socio-economic properties of the OGEL system are reflected in its use as semi-permanent homeless shelters, offices or any commercial building, removing the reliance on brick and cement in a cost-effective manner.

In terms of its properties and how it compares to other materials, the system has a low u-value of 0.17, meaning it has better thermal properties than brick. It packs to 1/5th of assembly size, is 88% lighter than traditional building materials and requires zero maintenance. OGEL panels are also coated with an intumescent coating which provides a high standard of fire resistance.

Although it is a standalone solution when it comes to certain projects, partnerships are always welcomed, for example wrapping OGEL buildings in a solar film to generate sustainable energy.

Use-cases:

1. Temporary homeless shelter providing improved mental health and socio-economic benefits as a safe place to reside until more permanent solution has been met. Once the person is no longer in a dire situation, the building can be dismantled and moved elsewhere rather than building another one.
2. Reusable flood defence, saving on the costs of further flooding events and allowing transportation of system to other effected areas. As a comparison, once sandbags have been contaminated it is recommended they are thrown away.
3. WfH offices enable companies to improve their green messaging by offering plastic waste buildings to their employees. Employees also feel happier when their work environment preferences are considered.

Benefits of using OGEL:

• Lower labour costs
• Lower transportation costs and related emissions
• Reusability and modularity resulting in lower waste disposal costs
• Increase in home working resulting in lower commuting costs and emissions

Neverwaste panels are an alternative to MDF, particleboard, and plywood for a wide range of products such as furniture, kitchens, flooring, doors, retail fit out, exhibition stands, partitions and internal joinery. The panels are made entirely from waste cardboard which would otherwise be sent to a landfill or incinerated. Neverwaste products are made without the use of glues, resins, or toxins and can be returned to their factory at end-of-life to be re-pulped and re-manufactured into new panels.

Neverwaste panels are about 15% more expensive than conventional panel boards but manufacturers using them are generally able to increase their margins on the ultimate end product by charging a premium. Customers are willing to pay to have access to a fully sustainable and circular economy solution.

Biohm generates a comprehensive picture of a business’ current environmental impact based on the ‘waste’ streams it produces. This data, supplemented with resource testing reveals opportunities for material development, which can help clients decarbonise, bring circularity into the business, reducing costs and adding value.

This service is broken into three steps:

1) RESOURCE MAPPING

To identify ways to help a client decarbonise, Biohm assesses ‘waste’ streams. Data collection and analysis on three or more resources generates an understanding of the company’s carbon flow and environmental impact. This is followed by a comprehensive demonstration of the opportunities for decarbonisation through material development.

​2) FEASIBILITY STUDY

This involves carrying out a schedule of tests and experiments with the ‘waste’ stream with an objective to validate it as a feasible feedstock to create mycelium and / or Orb materials. Once the success of the experiments is assessed, the decarbonisation potential of the resource can be demonstrated and the possibilities of incorporating it into a circular material and / or product can then be determined.

3) INDICATIVE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT

Once the ‘waste’ has gone through a feasibility study and is deemed ‘usable’, Biohm produces samples of a unique material incorporating the resource. Testing and optimisation then reveals the material’s properties and potential future application, revealing further product development pathways, demonstrating the possibilities and routes for decarbonisation.

Loopfront is a digital technology platform and surveying tool developed by field specialists to give an overview of the materials contained within a building in just a few days. The platform is designed to contribute at all stages of the value chain and turn waste into resources. With Loopfront, every organisation has the structure, process and tools to achieve their specific goals associated with the circular economy. The platform provides a detailed overview enabling users to plan activities towards their reuse and recycling goals at their own pace with available resources.

The platform produces live reports on savings, be they financial or associated with waste and CO2 reduction. All materials within the building are given a digital identity and can be traced, and the patform takes care of the entire process – from mapping and documentation, to collaboration, logistics and reporting.

Loopfront is software as a service platform, with upfront costs based on a monthly subscription of 0.01% (or less) of a total project cost. Return on investment will depend on the size of the project and the degree of material reuse, but the platform can enable a 70% reduction in costs associated with streamlining processes around circular activities.

Dulux Trade Evolve Matt is a high quality emulsion paint that can be used on walls and ceilings. Currently only available in white, it makes a particularly good option for ceilings. 35% of Evolve Matt is made from re-engineered waste paint, helping redirect old paint away from being treated as waste. Also, because Evolve is not made from all virgin raw materials, it is lower in embodied carbon when compared to Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt.

Dulux Trade Evolve Matt costs between 5 and 10% more than standard Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt (depending on contractor’s terms) and still has the same durability and life expectancy. Paint material costs are about 10% of the overall painting contract value – the 90% that is labour cost would still be the same, so it generally adds up to a small overall price increment, but introduces circular economy product design to the world of decoration.

More information about Dulux Trade Evolve Matt’s sustainability can be found in its .

Paint360 receive unwanted paint pots, decant the water based material by colour and type to make new products while recycling all the paint pots. Paint 360 is also a Social Enterprise creating positive impact by reducing the 55 million litres of waste paint produced every year in the UK while creating jobs for young people with barriers to employment. The products also support closed loop recycling targets, CSR initiatives, and cost saving targets on paint purchases and waste management.

A full range of paints and sundries available can be found .