The one sentence that matters
Madaster is a platform where verified product and material data connect to asset data.
That connection is the lever – transforming scattered information into decisions you can trust at a building, portfolio, and soon even an area scale.
Once the connection is made through 100+ product databases, you can unlock three types of value:
- Maximise circularity and minimise environmental impact – analyse and steer circularity (e.g., MCI, detachability, origin and destination, reuse potential) and environmental performance (e.g., MPG, MKI, embodied carbon, carbon emissions, Building LCA, WLC).
- Meet and evidence compliance – support and document reporting for MPG, MKI, Het Nieuwe Normaal, DGBC, DGNB, RICS, OGNI, SGNI, BREEAM, CSRD, EU Taxonomy, GRESB, and other frameworks.
- Improve financial performance – CRREM analysis, asset value, access to green funds, and total cost of ownership.
Everything on our roadmap serves this principle.
Where Madaster stands today
Today, Madaster operates across 7 countries with 400+ clients and around 1800 users. The platform connects three major data streams: product data, financial data, and asset data.
1. Product and material data
Madaster is connected to 100+ verified data sources, including:
- verified databases (NMD, Ökobau, BauBUCH, EcoPlatform);
- generic LCA/EPD databases;
- and direct manufacturer data (EPD/DPP-ready; verified and non-verified).
2. Financial data
The platform links to price indices and residual value datasets, enabling valuation and forecasting.
3. Asset data
Asset information flows into Madaster through:
- BIM models;
- Excel imports;
- and API connections for bulk-portfolio uploads.
Together, these streams turn raw inputs into structured insights for circularity, compliance, and financial planning.
More than “a passport”
A materials passport is a method, not the destination. What matters is what the method enables.
Material passports organize product data, so you can:
- reduce embodied carbon;
- prove compliance;
- avoid stranded assets;
- and finance reuse and circular strategies.
Circularity itself is also a method in service of broader outcomes: resilient portfolios, regulatory compliance, and better risk-adjusted returns.
Madaster expresses these methods through two families of indicators:
Circularity indicators: disassembly potential, reuse potential, circularity index, material origin/destination, and building-level passports.
Environmental indicators: embodied and operational CO₂, whole-life carbon / LCA, and national frameworks such as MPG and MKI.
These indicators already support decision-making for:
- certification schemes (DGBC, DGNB, national GBCs, Het Nieuwe Normaal, etc.);
- and ESG and reporting frameworks (CSRD, EU Taxonomy, Level(s)).
On the producer side, Madaster aligns with the Construction Products Regulation (CPR), connects to EPDs, and is evolving toward Digital Product Passports (DPP).
The financial layer: from impact to value
Impact becomes strategic only when it translates into financial language – risk, value, and performance.
Madaster helps you:
- quantify residual value at product, asset and portfolio level;
- track how asset value changes when you align with norms – or don’t;
- get access to green funds and green subsidies through transparent and verified evidence;
- use real-world data to build take-back and buy-back models;
- and implement product track & trace so manufacturers know where their products are used.
From 2026, this becomes even more relevant:
- Madaster is now a solution partner to GRESB;
- and embodied carbon, and related impact indicators, can feed directly into ESG benchmarking.
This is where circularity, compliance, and capital finally meet.
Our 2026 roadmap: four priorities
1. Smarter data connections and integrations
We are strengthening the connection between product/material data and asset data.
- More data sources: Additional databases, such as Ecochain, will connect directly to Madaster, making EPD data immediately available on our platform.
- AI-supported data ingestion: AI will read EPDs and automatically store structured data in Madaster. This increases speed, consistency, and reduces manual effort.
- Closer links to design tools: Connections to BIMcollab, Autodesk and other environments will allow users to see circularity, CO₂ and compliance implications directly inside their design software.
In short: less friction, higher data quality, and impact information available to support decision-making.
2. Methods, standards and certification
Our commitment is to stay aligned with the leading methods and norms.
This includes updates to:
- methods for circularity, LCA, WLC/CO₂ in line with leading standards;
- fully aligning the producer-side data structure with PCDS (Product Circularity Data Sheet) as a building block towards CPR and DPP;
- and integrating with third-party solutions that allow quick answers to: “How close is this project or portfolio to DGNB / EU Taxonomy / other frameworks?”, and “Where do we meet the criteria, and where do we fall short?”
We will keep speaking the languages of net zero, compliance, and finance, backed by a data foundation that the market can audit and trust.
3. From track and trace to industrial reuse
Today, producers can track where their products are located in the built environment. In 2026, we go one step further – from track & trace to industrial reuse.
We will enable:
- asset owners and infrastructure managers to announce when materials will become available from their assets;
- and producers and other market players to respond to those upcoming flows.
Important to note: Madaster will not become a marketplace.
- We will not take a transaction fee.
- Our role is to be the matching platform where data, supply, and demand find each other.
- Logistics, pricing, and contracts remain between the parties themselves.
The goal is simple: make it easier to keep high-quality materials in circulation, at scale.
4. Circularity at scale: the Area Register
Circularity only becomes systemic when we can act beyond a single project or asset.
Therefore, in 2026, we will launch the Area Register for the Netherlands and Germany as a start to deliver on a promise we’ve made from day one:
Madaster is the “cadastre of materials” in the built environment.
The Area Register will provide:
- a public website showing, for millions of objects: material stock; Global Warming Potential (GWP) per object, neighborhood, city, province and country;
- and links to public permit data: demolition and renovation, new construction, and major refurbishment.
This enables:
- circular material planning and urban mining for cities, regions and countries;
- carbon reporting and tracking at system level for large public and private portfolio owners;
- and scenario planning for policymakers who want to turn circular economy goals into actionable, data-backed strategies.
What this means for you
In practical terms, our roadmap invites you to:
- Connect product to asset: Make sure your projects produce verifiable material data tied to asset records in Madaster.
- Start with a pilot component: Choose, for example, a façade system or HVAC module. Design it modular and demountable, document the data, and test a take-back scenario.
- Quantify what matters: Use Madaster to measure WLC/CO₂, MPG, reuse potential, residual value and TCO – and use that to steer decisions.
- Engage financiers early: Bring ESG, risk and residual value into the conversation while your design and investment choices are still flexible.
- Prepare to scale: Take what works on one asset and replicate it across a portfolio or area, with the Area Register as a new layer of insight.
Our commitment
We will not chase buzzwords. We will:
- organize product and material data,
- connect it to assets,
- and make it usable — for circularity, compliance and capital.
That is the through-line of our roadmap and the filter for our decisions.
If you want to dive deeper or pilot this on a live asset, portfolio, or area, my team and I are ready to help.
We’re ready to help you turn waste into value and data into outcomes.
