ACAN’s Circular Economy Policy Campaign 2025 is here — and we need YOU!
We are excited to launch our Circular Economy Policy Campaign 2025, a bold call for national policy reforms to embed circular economy principles across the entire lifecycle of the built environment addressed to the UK Government CE task Force.
We’re demanding national laws that make circular building the norm, not the exception.
- Make manufacturers responsible across the full product lifecycle
- Add durability/adaptability rules to Building Regs (Part A)
- Approve & embed Circular Economy targets in Part Z
- Require CE statements + pre-demo audits in planning (nationwide)
- Track reuse % of existing buildings across all design stages
- Make pre-demolition audits mandatory for all projects
- Give tax breaks for using reclaimed materials
- Apply circular standards to all public procurement
- Fund a UK-wide reuse hub network
- Publish CE guidelines for architects, engineers, and contractors
UPDATE: October 2025: ASBP joins us in supporting the ACAN Circular Economy Policy
We’re thrilled to announce that the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) has joined us as an official supporter of the ACAN Circular Economy Policy Campaign!
With over a decade of dedication to material reuse, including through their Reuse Now campaign, ASBP was an early consultee of this policy campaign.
Through their work on education and upskilling, engagement with the supply chain and promotion of reused construction materials, they are a catalyst for circular economy in the industry and hold a shared vision that aligns with our campaign’s mission.
If you want to hear more about what they are doing, we invite you to check out their website and the upcoming ASBP Reuse Summit on Thursday 16th October 2025.
Together, we’ll continue to advocate for the policies needed to drive real change from education and infrastructure investment to fiscal and regulatory interventions.
Want to join this movement? Add your support below!
What Can YOU Do?
We need individuals and companies to sign on and back this campaign. Your voice will help drive the policy changes we urgently need.
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Signatories to 03/12/2025 17:20
Francois Lefranc – FBM Architects – London, GB
Robert Pike – Boidus Studio – London, GB – Fully support this! Government and industry need to take urgent action!
Ana Laranjeira – London, GB
Fidel Meraz – Bristol, GB
Louise Young – London, GB
Sam Hart – Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) – Glasgow, GB
Liz Crisp – The Cave Co-operative Ltd – Surbiton, GB
Hector Archila – University of the West of England – Bristol, GB
Louise Young – Royal Borough of Greenwich – London, GB
Budelia Probert Watt – London, GB
Yenny Betancourt – London, GB
Karen Lewing – Worcester, GB
Kelly Murray – Glasgow, GB
Jeremy Till – London, GB – An important and rigorously researched document. Brilliant!
Charlotte Medhurst – Design Haus Architecture – Nottingham, GB
Katie Townsend – Bath, GB
Viv Isaac – London, GB
Trevor Black – Trevor Black Architect – Dingwall, GB – Reuse of every component to the nth degree is essential to protect our planet. That needs commitment care and thought by those commissioning and designing buildings and stiff regulation for those who would choose to ignore.
Madelaine Bradley – Bowman Riley – London, GB
Dean Morrison Hopkins Architects – London, GB
Sam Foster – Dunfermline, GB
Mark Martines – Architype – London, GB
Benjamin Wells – Medium – London, GB
Vincent MacDonald – London, GB
Charlie Law London, GB Timber Development UK – TDUK fully support these circular economy recommendations to ensure valuable resources such as timber continue to be reused at their highest value for as long as possible to ensure a continued supply of sustainable timber required to meet our climate targets.
Rob Hayles – Citizens with Experience Ltd – London, GB
Harshita Mathur – Make Architects – London, GB
Simon Fraser – FBM architects – London, GB
Peter Bartley – AEW Architects – Manchester, GB
Haruhito Tomi – The Jounetsu Creator Ltd – London, GB
Tom O’Reilly – Leatherhead, GB
Luke Marchant – Hungerford, GB
Tim Stonemeijer – Independent – Building Prosperity EMF Report ambassador – London, GB – It’s more important than ever to unlock solutions that deliver both prosperity and environmental sustainability. ACAN’s CE policy campaign is an activating agenda to harness the competitiveness of circular strategies to build a future where nature and the economy thrive together.
Adam Floater – SOUTHMINSTER, GB
Noen Gallagher – University of Bath – Bath, GB
Tracey Hart – Penrith, GB – Fully support this excellent campaign. We must shift the balance away from ‘new’ to ‘reclaimed and reused’ by promoting a change in what we value.
Andrea Charlson – London, GB
Mark Parsons – Studio Polpo – Sheffield, GB
Alex Cox – London, GB
Lisa Kurdziel – València, ES
Suzy Nelson – Lewes, GB
Paul Mathews – Martham, GB
Harry Tuke – Jessop and Cook Architects – Oxford, GB
Diba Salam – StudioDS – London, GB
Elin K – Sheffield, GB
Danna Walker – London, GB
Ainhoa Abreu – RSHP – London, GB
Margit Kraft – Margit Kraft Architects – London, GB – We only have one planet.
Christiane Lellig – Plourin-lès-morlaix, FR
Gernot Golembiewski – AUTARK architecture – Edinburgh, GB
Sal Wilson – London, GB – HEAL
Greta Samis – London, GB
Francesco Ferrari – London, GB – Arup – Embedding circularity in the construction industry is key to reduce carbon emissions and our impact on the climate.
Liam Kelly – London, GB – Sheppard Robson
Hattie Gryspeerdt – London, GB – Ackroyd Lowrie
Andra Samis – London, GB
Wei Lee – London, GB
Seb Laan Lomas – Hereford, GB – Architype Architects
Christian Dimbleby – London, GB – White Arkitekter
Nuno Correia – London, GB – WilkinsonEyre Architects
Caterina Mangia – London, GB – David Chipperfield Architects
Tudor Jitariu – London, GB – RSHP
Andrea Carbogno – London, GB – Carbogno Architects
Blanche Elizabeth Cameron – London, GB – The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL – This is an important action on materials reuse, supporting the natural environment our life support system. ACAN is changing the UK’s cultural conversation on the built environment that creates ~40% of climate impacts as well as on biodiversity habitats and ecosystems globally.
Alison Proctor – Hornchurch, GB – Boutique Capital Ltd – The Govt should work with ACAN.
Ruby Sleigh – London, GB
Lucie Tinsdale – Edinburgh, GB – Tinsdale Architects – To build the future we want to see we need to take action to change the way society and economy work.
Jo Washington – Woking, GB
Mark Rowe – London, GB
Rand Lemley – Boston, US – DREAM Collaborative
Peter Smith – Glasgow, GB – Roderick James Architects
Jenny Rawlings – Lewes, GB
Anastasia Stella – London, GB – Circuland – Great initiative
Amy Smith – London, GB – Arup – I support the campaign. I would be keen to see additional focus on policy that influences the supply chain and ensures manufacturers create products that can be repaired, altered and taken apart. A focus area would be complex MEP equipment.
Peggy Deamer – NYC, US – The Architecture Lobby
Olivia Daw – London, GB – Material Index
Hattie Emerson – Cambridge, GB
Anna Colligan – London, GB – Southwark Nature Action Volunteers – On a finite planet, there is no other way to grow but circular!
Jennie Greenwalker – Teddington, GB – Matthew Allchurch Architects
Roseanna Hart – London, GB – Cast Group (Cast Interiors, Cast Furniture)
Morgan Lewis – London, GB – Material Index – We fully support this at material index!
Tom Graham – Frome, GB – Tom Graham Workshop
Mariami Tkeshelashvili – London, GB
Lucy Kerr – London, GB
Dominic Parr – London, GB – Material Index
Anna Tebble – London, GB
Shreya Aneja – London, GB – White Arkitekter
Dan Maguire – London, GB
Tara Hipwood – Newcastle, GB – Northumbria University
Niko Brewster – London, GB
May Fisher – Bristol, GB – LivedIn
Andi Oyefuga-Katsimpardi – London, GB
Alicia Pivaro – London, GB – Amazing work
Nicola Malcher – London, GB – We urgently need bold policy to end the take/make/waste culture and transition to a built environment that prioritises reuse and longer term value.
Thomas Parker – Washington, GB
Melissa Merryweather – London, GB – Green Consult Global
Tharaka Dharmasiri – Birmingham, GB – Birmingham City University
Rosie Parnell – North Shields, GB
Antonia Alexandru – London, GB
Dickon Hayward – London, GB – Material Works Architecture
Scott Smith, La Commune, JE Woven Ltd
Eve Choy – London, GB – Structure Tone
Eleni Synodinou – London, GB
Péter Balogh- Budapest, HU
Debbie Ward – The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products – Wolverhampton, GB – The ASBP wholeheartedly support ACAN’s Circular Economy Policy Campaign, from more education to raise awareness and upskill, to investment in infrastructure to facilitate reuse, and fiscal and regulatory interventions; adoption of CE needs to be driven top down and bottom up.
Maisie Hunt – The Rebuild Site CIC – Carlisle, GB
Simon Guy – Reusefully – Bedford, GB
Venetia Flint- Material Index – London, GB
Darcy Arnold-Jones – Marks Barfield Architects – London, GB
Thomas Henderson Schwartz – Marks Barfield Architects – London, GB
Eshe Lane- Material Index – London, GB
Marietta Gontikaki – London, GB
Amalia Banteli – Cardiff University – Cardiff, GB
Ruth Cuenca – London, GB – UCL
Michelle Sanchez – London, GB – RSHP
Laura Batty – London, GB – Heyne Tillett Steel
Joe Gibbs – London, GB – Studio Sutton
Athina Papakosta – London, GR
Peter Hambling – London, GB – Velocity Transport Planning
Nicolae Bajenaru – London, GB – London Square
Kiro Tamer – Brighton and Hove, GB – KEES
Shona Goldsmith – London, GB – Elliott Wood
Asselia Katenbayeva – Loughborough, GB – ASBP
Peter Kelly – London, GB – – A must if we are ever going to reach net zero!
Tom Bunn – London, UK, GB – Elliott Wood
Steve Sliney – Bristol, GB – Collecteco Ltd – There is phenomenal demand for donations of equipment and materials in the community where these cannot be reused on site. Reuse targets will help us address this demand to embed social impact, carbon savings and CE benefits.
Maurizio Maurizio Mucciola – London, GB – PiM.studio Architects
Louise Ripper – Barcelona, ES
Marta Dias – Copenhagen, DK
Oscar Leigh-Hales – London, GB – ODGroup
Barnabas Calder – Liverpool, GB – University of Liverpool – This campaign is absolutely spot on.
Abhimanyu Singh – Reading, GB – Hexpressions – I wholeheartedly support the campaign.
Aneela Faisal – Dublin, IE – TU Dublin
Bonnie Jackson – Liverpool, GB
Lucy Matthews – Liverpool, GB – Harrison Stringfellow Architects
SK Hagan – London, GB
Mike Tuck – London, GB – Mike Tuck Studio
Katie Beeby – Liverpool, GB – Harrison Stringfellow Architects
Michal Drewniok – Leeds, GB
Shan Gao – London, GB – University College London
Matthew Morris – London, GB
Fabiola Bordese – London, GB
Clare Whitney – Truro, GB
Gillies MacPhail – Glasgow, GB – John Gilbert Architects – All talk of a circular economy is meaningless without the adoption into law of these simple principles.
Magnus Wills – London, GB – Barr Gazetas
Federica Bonaccorsi – London, GB – Barr Gazetas
Laura Mohirta – London, GB – Barr Gazetas
Dylan Radcliffe Brown – London, GB
Oliwia Kuzma – Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
Anu Sofuyi – London, GB
Huda Salman – Aberdeen, GB – Robert Gordon University
Laura Fermoso – New York, US
Emily Crompton – Manchester, GB – Manchester School of Architecture
Abhimanyu Singh – Reading, GB – Hexpressions
Edoardo Milli – London, GB – Haworth Tompkins
Sophie Emerson – London, GB – Haworth Tompkins
Alasdair Ben Dixon – London, GB – Collective Works
Úna Haran – Brighton, GB
Maaria Mamujee – Leicester, GB
Jayne Kemp – Tewkesbury, GB – Hydro Building Systems – Technal UK
Rob Smith – London, GB – Technal UK
Mikaila James – Newquay, GB – Castria
Craig Simms – United Kingdom, GB – TECHNAL
Cypren Edmunds – London, GB – Straw Building UK
Juraj Mikurcik – Little Birch, GB
Chris Bravington – Nottingham, GB
Konstantina Tsapakidou – London, GB – Studio FIFTYONE
Rohit Raguraman – Bath, GB – Placement student at: Hetreed Ross Architects
Stephen Barrett – London, GB – RSHP – It’s vital that we support this direction of travel!
Svetla Dionissieva – London, GB – – I fully support this campaign. The demand for product information on embedded carbon for building materials to be a legal obligation is vital.
Angelina Gladushevska – United Kingdom, GB – Orms Architects
Rosie Bard – London, GB – Orms Architects
Seda Yontem – London, GB – Ecolocus Urban Innovations Lab
Richard Jenkins – Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
Giovanni Alcuri – London, GB
Paul Lincoln – London, GB
Jesse Hamman – London, GB – RKD
Vicki Odili – London, GB – TP Bennett
Katie Beeby – Grange over Sands, GB – Shape Design Studio
Katy Staton – Barnet, GB – Staton Cohen Landscape Architecture
Matteo Mazzola – London, GB
Justin Murray – Guildford, GB – Bio-SIP
Samantha Wright – Bristol, GB – SWD+Architecture
Kane Greenough – Manchester, GB – Morgan Sindall Construction
Sophia Ceneda – London, GB – Howells – A great bottom-up demand that requires urgent leadership action. The UK needs to learn from other countries where CE legislation has been in place for a few years in all sectors (e.g. goods obsolescence, food waste or natural material use in public sector projects in France).
Gloria Lo – Edinburgh, GB – OiSA Architect
Nadezda Kazakova – London, GB – LSI Architects
Afnan Mohamed – London, GB – Corstorphine and Wright
Alice Hamlin – Cambridge, GB – Mole Architects
Christopher Chilvers – Cambridge, GB – University of Cambridge – While UNEP’s 2024/25 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction notes some progress in circular architecture, greater action is needed to increase understanding and implementation of re-use, reclamation, and recycling approaches to meet our current and future needs.
Marianna Marchesi – Cardiff, GB – Cardiff University
Kiru Balson – London, GB – Max Fordham LLP
Tony Spreckley – Ashtead, GB – Envirocycle London Ltd
Kay Sedki – London, GB – UCL
Tate Kiveal – Stony Stratford, GB
Alexander Dhesi – London, GB – UCL
Prashansa Bhattarai – Wembley, London, GB – ACAN
Kemi Owoeye – Purley, GB
Joel Hilmersson – London, GB


