On the 3rd November, Emmanuelle Maire, Head of Unit at DG ENV, chaired the ‘Level(s): Bringing buildings into the circular economy’ session. Following a brief introduction to Level(s) by Josefina Lindblom, Policy Officer at DG ENV, this session was an opportunity for building professionals to hear about the possibilities that Level(s) has to drive market transformation and policy development by listening to Philippa Gill, Director, Europe at EVORA Global, Roy Antik, Senior Vice President, International Policy Coordination at Stora Enso, and Kristina Einarsson, Environmental and Climate Policy Expert and Project manager at Boverket.

The discussion highlighted the necessity for the European building sector to use a common language, which would eventually create a green building marketplace. Philippa Gill stressed how her motivation to use Level(s) was the unique analysis of the full building’s life cycle, the possibility to use it at every stage of the production, and its holistic approach. Roy Antik pointed out the added value of Level(s) in the way it allows users to develop their skills to future-proof buildings. Kristina Einarsson's view was that the EU framework is a leader for future national policies.

At the conclusion of the session, Josefina Lindblom announced that, from next year, the Commission will be launching new online projects to further help Level(s) users working with the framework.

In case you missed our session, or you just want to watch it again, the presentations, key highlights and the video recording of it will be available on the website of the Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference very soon.