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Circular economy
HIA’s Position Statement
- HIA is not supportive of regulation of circular economy principles being imposed as a mandatory obligation or condition in either the design, manufacture, or demolition of buildings.
- Any future regulation, if imposed by governments, requires a coordinated and holistic policy that considers the specific residential building sector impacts, flexible approaches, education, and rewards for voluntary action.
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Were it to be pursued, circular economy:
- Principles must first be thoroughly assessed and confirmed as the lowest cost abatement pathway measured against alternatives for the whole economy.
- Regulatory proposals must follow best practice principles through the preparation of a regulatory impact assessment that demonstrates net benefits to society.
- Requires agreed supporting frameworks, resourced regulators, and mechanisms for traceability.
- Could be encouraged through reuse and recycling.
- Quotas for recycled content must not be imposed through targets in existing codes and standards.
- Targets for material reduction, material productivity, and recovery of resources, focused on landfill data, must be whole-of-industry and guided by rigorously tested methods and data, not building-level targets.
- Targets must not compromise the priority goal of the National Construction Code (NCC) and relevant Australian Standards regarding the life safety of occupants.
- Implementation in the residential sector must only follow an evaluation of effectiveness in commercial and industrial uses. Government projects and procurement should be used to refine the proposals.
- Policy must be designed to incentivise local products, encourage reuse, and achieve targets that are broadly applied (not exclusionary) and allow conventional forms of construction to compete.
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Policies aimed at building products must:
- Ensure choice in materials and building features is maintained by not unduly restricting building types and choices or imposing costs, including on solutions used to demonstrate circularity.
- Not set targets for individual materials at building approval.
- Acknowledge the competing priorities in standards and regulations, the high performance of new buildings in operational energy use, and geographical issues that demand flexibility in product selection.
- Not precede residential industry agreement on methods of measurement and disclosure.
- Preference government support for innovation by establishing voluntary pathways linked to incentives for companies prepared to conduct life cycle analysis of a material to assist with the creation of better waste data sets.
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