The Circular Built Environment
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The form is Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and the Gang of Four’s Design Patterns, adapted to a web-first field reference for circular architecture, construction, material passports, recovery supply chains, standards, contracts, and finance.
Trademark and institutional acknowledgments. ISO, CEN, RICS, DGNB, BREEAM, USGBC, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Arup, WorldGBC, Madaster, Rotor DC, Excess Materials Exchange, and any other named institution in this book retain their respective marks and institutional identities. Names appear descriptively in support of analysis, never associatively.