Pilots
As part of the Nordic Circularity Piloting Program, six pilots on circularity in technical building equipment will be selected to enjoy facilitated support and joint communications efforts. Applications are now closed - selected pilots will be announced in August 2025!
Selection criteria for circular pilots
1. Strategic Fit
- The pilot should promote circularity in technical building equipment and enhance value chain-wide collaboration
- The pilot should concretely aim to explore increasing the circularity of technical building equipment, e.g. reuse, refurbishment, remanufacturing, intensifying product and resource usage, closing resource loops
- Improving or ensuring energy efficiency necessary
- Actors need to be willing to share results and insights from piloting publicly, in line with the program’s ambitions
2. Feasibility and Readiness
- The proposed solution should be at a stage where it can be tested in a real building
- The pilot should optimally involve at least two actors across the value chain to test collaborative dynamics and validate circular business models.
- All necessary stakeholders (e.g. product manufacturer, property owner) should be willing and able to actively participate
- The pilot team should demonstrate access to the resources (financial, technical, human) required to execute the pilot successfully
3. Impact and Scaling
- Most impactful pilots when it comes to resource efficiency improvement and emission reduction impact will be prioritized
- Pilots groups should have clearly defined goals related to circularity (e.g. lifetime extension, material savings) and optimally also ability to measure the solution’s CO2 reduction impact
- The solution should have the potential to scale commercially
Download the Circular Pilot Canvas
The Nordic Circularity Piloting Program has developed the Circular Pilot Canvas as a free tool for any piloting team to use in developing pilots. The Canvas helps plan out the pilot activities and prepare for and anticipate common challenges in piloting circular business models.
The Canvas is built to address the three main questions to be validated during piloting:
- Value Proposition - Is there demand?
- Circular Business Model - Is it worth it?
- Feasibility & Readiness - Can we do it?