SP7 Value creation for circular practice

A customer-centric approach to value creation is taken and combined with a focus on the wider ecosystem of value chain players and stakeholders for whom value is generated, as to derive insights on synergies and trade-offs for economic, environmental, and social value creation through the system innovation.

Qualitative data from workshops and interviews with implementation partners and other ecosystem stakeholders are combined with quantitative economic assessment methods.

First, BFH ISB investigates revenue streams for professional real estate owners - such as real estate companies or housing cooperatives - that can be generated from applying circular and digital solutions to existing building components. Insights on the monetary value of transforming existing building components into circular and digitised ones are translated into new accounting methods for professional real estate owners in Switzerland, and result in a guideline for investors and professional real estate owners. Second, SusTec, ETH Zürich analyses the revenue streams from selected newly developed circular and digital building solutions developed in SP3-SP6 and analyses value flows for selected solutions at the level of value chains, including quantification of investment requirements and benefits for key actors in the value chain and in the wider stakeholder ecosystem. Subsequently, the economic value generated in the ecosystem from embedding the selected new solutions is compared to their environmental benefits (SP1). Finally, SusTec analyses the reconfiguration processes needed at value chain level (altered responsibilities, processes, resource deployment) and at ecosystem level (adaptations in the legal system - SP2) that can serve as basis for creation feasible business models.