Environmental impact of CircoFloor
A circular floor build-up with up to 4.9× lower environmental impact than traditional systems.
Discover the results of our environmental study and see how CircoFloor is improving.
Why install circular floors?
A circular floor build-up offers more than just a lower environmental impact.
Less waste
Traditional floors end up as construction rubble. CircoFloor can be completely dismantled and reused.
Lower costs
Thanks to reuse, you avoid high demolition and waste costs, which can quickly rise with traditional floors.
Future-oriented
Circular floors are perfectly aligned with future regulations and sustainable construction.
For the next generation
A circular floor build-up not only saves raw materials and emissions today, but also ensures a better living environment for the next generation.
Adaptable
A circular floor can easily be adapted or expanded without demolition work, so that your building can evolve with new needs.
Analysis without concrete slab and floor finish
For this comparison, the impact of the concrete floor slab and the finishing layer (laminate/parquet) were removed from the calculation.
The remaining materials show how much the core of each flooring system weighs on the environment.
Insulating screed with screed
Environmental impact without concrete & laminate
2,26× worse for the environment
- EPS screed as a filling layer
- Cement screed with reinforcement mesh
- No reversibility
Sprayed PUR with screed
Environmental impact without concrete & laminate
4,92× worse for the environment
- Sprayed PUR insulation
- Cement screed with reinforcement mesh
- No reversibility
Filling layer + insulation with screed
Environmental impact without concrete & laminate
2,62× worse for the environment
- EPS screed and XPS boards
- Cement screed with reinforcement mesh
- No reversibility
CircoFloor
Environmental impact without concrete & laminate
Best score
- Circular, demountable structure
- Cork granulate & OSB board layer
- Fully reversible
CircoFloor reduces the environmental impact by up to 4.9× compared to the most polluting traditional screed floor build-up with sprayed PUR.
Analysis including concrete slab and floor finish
This calculation takes into account all components – from the reinforced concrete slab to the floor covering.
Insulating screed with screed
Full environmental impact
1,10× worse for the environment
Filling layer + insulation with screed
Full environmental impact
1,13× worse for the environment
After 1 time reuse: initial + re-placement
Both the concrete slab and the floor covering (laminate/parquet) are reused. With traditional construction, only the core (screed and insulation) is purchased again; with CircoFloor, everything is reused.
Insulating screed with screed
1,28× worse for the environment
Sprayed PUR with screed
1,71× worse for the environment
Filling layer + insulation with screed
1,34× worse for the environment
CircoFloor
Best score
Reversibility & circularity
Besides its low environmental impact, CircoFloor excels in reversibility. Below, you can see how CircoFloor compares to traditional construction methods when dismantled and reused.
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Insulating screed with screed: Cement-bonded and bonded layers permanently bond to the floor slab and technical components; selective disassembly is not possible, and everything ends up as rubble.
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Sprayed PUR with screed: PUR adheres to concrete and pipes; removing it without damage is virtually impossible. Disposal is complex and expensive.
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Filling layer + insulation with screed: Insulation boards often deform after use; an underlying adhesive filler layer remains that holds everything in place.
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CircoFloor: Modular frame with adjustable feet, loose-fill granular fill, and screwed board layer. All components remain intact, are easy to disassemble and reuse, and utilities remain accessible. This makes the floor truly circular.
Why these material and system choices?
CircoFloor was not developed as a traditional wet floor build-up, but as a dry and reversible system floor. These choices were made deliberately to limit material loss, unnecessary mixed material streams and demolition later on.
One PP core for structure and screws
The structural panels, adjustable screws and locking screws are all made from polypropylene (PP). This keeps the core of the system mono-material, moisture-resistant and easier to sort for reuse or recycling.
Dry installation without adhesives or wet screed
CircoFloor is loose laid, clicks together and is mechanically fixed. This avoids a glued or cemented floor build-up that would later only be removable as rubble.
Reuse first, recycling second
In the B-EPD dossier, reuse assumes avoided disposal of 90% of the grids and 95% of the screws. This means the main circular gain comes from reuse first, and recycling only afterwards.
Project-specific filling and finishing
The free space can be filled with loose insulation materials such as cork granules, EPS beads or cellular concrete levelling granules, with screw-fixed boards such as OSB, particle board or Fermacell on top. This lets you tailor insulation, acoustics and environmental impact to the project.
What does this mean for service life?
In the B-EPD dossier, CircoFloor is assessed with a reference service life of 25 years without maintenance or replacement. At the same time, the system is designed to be used again after disassembly, allowing components to go through multiple use cycles.
- Rejected production material can be fully fed back into the production process as a thermoplastic.
- The product contains no substances from the REACH candidate list of substances of very high concern.
- The B-EPD dossier states that the product contains no biogenic carbon; the circular value therefore lies in the dry, reusable system build-up.
EPD & Totem
A B-EPD trajectory is currently underway for CircoFloor, based on product-specific LCA data and an assessment of reversibility and reuse.
After verification and registration, this dossier can also be used for inclusion in Totem, the Belgian tool for sustainable building assessments.
Choose a circular future
CircoFloor combines an extremely low environmental impact with complete reversibility.
With up to 4.9× less material impact and up to 1.31× better total environmental score than traditional screed constructions, you are ready for the future.
