DELIVERING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY A TOOLKIT FOR POLICYMAKERS

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Figure B6: Sharing and multi-purposing of buildings
Impact assessment summary, 2035
NOTE: Results estimated for impact inside Denmark only. This sector-specific impact does not include indirect
effects, e.g. on supply chains, that are captured in the economy-wide CGE modelling. BaU = business as usual.
SOURCES:
1 Estimate, informed by literature: GSA Office of Government-wide Policy, Workspace utilisation and allocation
benchmark (2011); Cushman & Wakefield, Office space across the world (2013); vasakronan.se/artikel/det-digitalaarbetslivet-ar-har;
SITRA, Assessing the circular economy potential for Finland (2015); Ellen MacArthur Foundation,
SUN and McKinsey Center for Business and Environment, Growth Within: A Circular Economy Vision for a Competitive
Europe (2015).
2 Statistics Denmark; 100% of commerical buildings; 10% of residential, small residential, small non-residential
buildings; 50% of public buildings and sports buildings.
3 Statistics Denmark.
4 Office hours = 10 hours per day, After hours = 4 hours per day. Current utilization during office hours taken as 20%
higher than reported by GSA.