Tox-Free, Circular, and Climate-Friendly: How Europe Can Transform Its Buildings
People spend most of their lives indoors, yet indoor dust analyses from Baltic cities show that construction materials release hazardous substances such as PFAS, plasticisers, and chlorinated paraffins into indoor air and the environment. Stormwater also washes...
Building a Tox-Free, Circular, and Climate-Friendly Future: Policy Recommendations for Sustainable Construction
Policy brief highlights how tox-free, circular, and climate-friendly construction can be achieved through stronger EU-level action. Key recommendations include full chemical transparency, an EU-wide product database, and mandatory digital logbooks to track materials...
A Multi-Perspective Shift
In Västervik, a coastal town of around 36,000 inhabitants at the southern end of the Swedish archipelago, people are rethinking water management. They are doing so with an instrument that appears quite unspectacular at first glance: retention ponds. As...