The main progress beyond the state-of-the art developed through the CINDERELA project is a systemic solution for the waste-to-material transformation resulted in new circular economy business models (CinderCEBM) supported by CINDERELA One-Stop-Shop service CinderOSS, that makes the use of SRM-based construction products resulting from CinderCEBM more transparent, traceable and attractive to users: i.e. investors, companies, local administrations and decision-makers at local and regional levels. The latter is composed of five main modules: a Production & Construction module, which gives information on producing and using circular construction materials in construction works, including BIM-libraries and quality control; a Market & Legislation module, which offer services related to developing demand-side measures and administrative/legislative procedures for working with SRM-based construction products; a Research & Development module, providing knowledge on existing and upcoming recycling and construction technologies that can boost or harm novel business idea; a Digital Business Ecosystem (CinderDBE), an interactive communication platform for matchmaking potential business partners, customers and other potential stakeholders and materials trading; and a Circular Economy Business Model (CEBM) giving examples of good practices of circular economy business models in construction. Additionally, CinderOSS off-line service to be offered are also GIS-based Mass Flow Analysis (MFA) tool - GDSE and different service provided to end-users in order to develop and optimise CinderCEBM in their local, regional environment.
The major results in the project therefore are:
- A fully functioning and in real environment demonstrated CinderCEBM;
- Optimised CinderOSS, tested by different stakeholders and potential end-users; and
- Full demonstrated pilot production and large-scale construction works where SRM-based construction products are used.
Additionally, CINDERELA provides guidelines on GPP criteria, decision-making tools, limiting values connected with the End-of-Waste criteria, protocols on Environmental Product Declarations in the case of urban and peri-urban construction and others.
The project impacts are well aligned with expected such as:
- Created market for SRM-based construction products with market patterns such as less expensive construction materials, lower price of waste handling, local availability of resources and transparency and traceability of materials’ origin;
- New design approach for SRM-based construction products by considering all actors along the value and supply chain and by incorporating important tools such as Building Information Modelling (BIM);
- Reduced supply chain lengths due to local availability of resources resulting in less emissions and lower costs of transport;
- Material criteria included in designing of durable and recyclable SRM-based construction products and related services;
- New business opportunities created for industry and the SME in EU;
- Demonstrated economic, social, cultural and environmental sustainability of novel products through whole life cycle assessments and other approach;
- Provided evidence-based knowledge regarding the enabling framework conditions through large scale demonstrations and summarized in developed protocols, such as ETV protocols, GPP criteria, and EoW criteria;
- Different sustainable goals implemented, especially SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities) 12 (responsible consumption) and SDG 13 (climate action).
