Materials Passports: Accelerating Material Reuse in Construction (2024)

• Developed by: Orms
• Description: "Material Passports offer an opportunity to gather and organise data about materials contained within a building, which in turn enable material reuse. In this policy paper, we propose a series of recommendations which will enable meaningful material reuse. Our ambition is to create a process that is clear enough to understand, simple enough to use and cost effective to implement, to ultimately change how we value our existing and future built environment. This work has been developed in collaboration with Lancaster University, with funding provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council."
• Link: https://orms.co.uk/insights/materialspassportspolicypaper/

Material Passport Vision

• Developed by: Orms
• Description: "Our goal was to develop an opensource methodology to Material Passporting for existing buildings, that would be accessible to design teams of all sizes and capabilities. We have developed a strategy that centres around the development of a Material Database, with Material Passports acting as a user interface to filter relevant information for the reader."
• Links:
  • https://orms.co.uk/insights/materialpassports/#dearflip-df_5690/1/
  • https://orms.co.uk/insights/material-passport-vision/

Guide to Passports for the Construction Sector (June 2022)

• Developed by: Platform CB'23
• Description: "Passports for the Construction Sector 2021/ 2022 action team Materials passports, or ‘passports’ for short, are considered to be an important means of promoting a more circular approach throughout the construction sector, which spans the buildings sector and the civil and hydraulic engineering sector. This guide suggests guidelines for further standardising passports for the construction sector. This edition expands on two previous editions published in the summers of 2019 and 2020 respectively, incorporating the experiences gained in 2020-2021 from a project aimed at implementing passports for the construction sector. "
• Link: https://platformcb23.nl/#lexicon-circulaire-bouw

CAPSA

• Developed by: CAPSA; supported by Climate-KIC, the European Union, UN environment programme, and Global Alliance for Buildings and Constriction
• Description: "A digital building passport is a database in which all relevant data is held by the building owner in a digital and processable format. The passport combines modules for data collection during site visits, artificial intelligence data matching, and energy infrastructure data to generate a holistic and detailed data picture of a building with minimal time investment. By adding more information during maintenance visits and thanks to the semantic logic engines, which update the data with each entry of comparable buildings, your knowledge about your building is constantly growing. CAPSA evolved from research projects at leading European universities and we continue to implement state of the art innovation and technology."
• Link: https://capsa-building.com/

The Building Passport Practical Guidelines (2021)

• Developed by: UN Environment Programme; Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction
• Description: "The new Building Passport Practical Guidelines addresses the need for accessible and reliable data and information on buildings. Policymakers and market participants alike see the development and use of Building Passports as a way of overcoming current data gaps and data barriers, helping to capture, administer and manage building-related data and information across the whole life cycle. The overarching goals of these practical guidelines, which represent the collaborative effort of a global Task Force of public and private sector experts, are to illustrate the value of developing holistic, multi-dimensional Building Passports."
• Link: https://globalabc.org/news/new-report-building-passport-practical-guidelines