Statistical and geographical study on demolished buildings

Huuhka, Satu; Lahdensivu, Jukka

doi:10.1080/09613218.2014.980101

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“…(Saghafi, 2011). However, few buildings are demolished due to the end of design working life (Huuhka and Lahdensivu, 2016). Therefore, most materials still have high residual value that can be reused or recycled (Rahman et al, 2014).…”

Section: Problem Formulation and Actor Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent based environmental impact assessment of building demolition waste management: Conventional versus green management

Ding

Wang

Zou

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

123

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Waste materials generated from building demolition have become a great challenge to sustainable urban development due to its consumption of the limited landfill spaces, water pollution, energy consumption and harmful gas emissions. Proper management of demolition waste (DW) is a complex process and requires systematic thinking and analysis. Many methods have been proposed to study the environmental impact assessment of demolition waste management (DWM). However, it is found that the currently available studies pay little attention from the perspective of complex adaptive system (CAS) to consider the attitude and interaction of the heterogeneous stakeholders as well as the importance of green DWM which has a great influence on the effectiveness of DW management. The aim of this research is to simulate and explore how the change of attitude and the dynamic interaction among heterogeneous stakeholders can influence the environmental performance of DWM. To achieve this aim, a model for evaluating the environmental impact of DWM was developed by using an agent-based modeling (ABM) approach. The main factors considered in the model are the ratio of green deconstruction (i.e., building deconstruction) managers vs. conventional demolition (i.e. building destruction) managers, the ratio of green design managers (i.e. design for deconstruction) vs. conventional design managers, and the interaction behavior of heterogeneous stakeholders following the herd theory. In the model, the environmental impact assessment was quantified into four categories i.e. land resources, water resources, air resource and energy resources. The proposed model is demonstrated by using the data drawn from the Chinese construction industry. The results reveal that if the deconstruction method and the deconstruction oriented design are widely adopted by architects and engineers, the negative environmental impacts generated by DW can be reduced by at least 50%. Furthermore, the results provide valuable information for government departments to make decisions on how to improve environmental performance of DWM.

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Section: Problem Formulation and Actor Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent based environmental impact assessment of building demolition waste management: Conventional versus green management

Ding

Wang

Zou

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

123

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“…Furthermore, the demolished non-residential buildings are much larger and newer than residential ones [1]. In terms of WGA, there are relatively small differences between residential and nonresidential buildings, except for renovation, where non-residential building produce four times more C&DW [14].…”

Section: Residential Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, even after a demand peak, the accumulated amounts of urban secondary resources remain a major environmental and economic issue [23]. The reduction of new construction activity in combination with the preservation tendency in architecture [1] is making demolition and renovation increasingly important in AECO. In many cases, renovation is already outweighing in value new construction work [17], even for residential buildings [9], where some renovation types have a WGR nearing that of the demolition [12].…”

Section: Renovation and Refurbishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recovering resources from the anthroposphere in a densely populated city is a complex task, which is nevertheless justified by the joint imperative of reducing unprocessed waste and extracting value from existing stock. Moreover, cities seem to be the right place for it, as the larger the size of a community, the higher the building and demolition activity [1], and also because higher waste generation rates (WGR) for construction and demolition waste (C&DW) have been observed in countries with higher population densities [2]. The underlying reasons for both include higher economic activity, population mobility, higher living standards and stricter environmental regulations: all characteristic of old yet still dynamic urban centres like Amsterdam.…”

Section: Urban Mining Importance For Amsterdammentioning

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Anticipating urban mining

Koutamanis¹,

Reijn²,

Bueren³

et al. 2017

24th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

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In recent years there has been growing interest in urban mining from various environmental and economic perspectives. Materials hidden in buildings are attractive alternatives to raw ones, while building activities are responsible for a large share of waste. The paper is a summary of findings from an analysis of possibilities for urban mining in Amsterdam, focusing on prospecting for metals in residential buildings. Both global literature and interviews with Dutch demolition experts suggest that performance in metal recovery from buildings is as high as it can get. However, estimation of metal content in buildings and of waste processing rates is far from reliable, accurate and precise enough to support such claims or identify possibilities for further improvement, especially in relation to processes of urban and real-estate redevelopment and rejuvenation. To improve understanding and embedding of urban mining in these processes, we propose (a) a BIM-based information infrastructure that connects to municipal and owner information processes, so as to progressively collect all relevant information, allow for validation, verification and localization of valuable resources, as well as identify opportune moments for their extraction, and (b) policies that overcome the fragmented institutional character of the building sector, making information sharing a consequence of networking based on trust and shared values, driven by both demand and soft incentives relating to circularity.

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“…For example, the average holding period for institutional investors in the UK was approximately 13 years during the 1990s (Collett, Lizieri, & Ward, 2003), 2 whereas a building's first life cycle is often considered at least 50 years (Duffy & Henney, 1989). A recent study (Huuhka & Lahdensivu, 2014) has recorded the actual life cycle of buildings being around 50 years (44 -64 years). This gap has likely widened during the past two decades as property markets have globalized and the popularity of real estate funds has increased to favour shorter holding periods.…”

Section: Current Focus Of Real Estate Investment Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Theory of valuing building life-cycle investments

Vimpari

Junnila

2015

Building Research & Information

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The physical adaptability of buildings is very important in today's fast-changing business environment. The actors who invest in long-term adaptability are positioned better to the changes during the life cycle of a building. This conceptual paper argues that the current dominating real estate (property) investment analysis theories do not accommodate enough building design-related information (i.e. physical asset characteristics), which results in long-term loss of competitiveness and unsustainable use of built environment resources. It is demonstrated that physical asset characteristics can create valuable real options that should be acknowledged in real estate investment analysis and management. The real estate investment literature has not so far been able to produce a widely accepted financial model for justifying life-cycle investments. A theory is proposed here that can be used to value life-cycle investments in buildings. This new theory combines of real options valuation, investment analysis and building component life-cycle design. These themes are used to formulate a conceptual framework for valuing life-cycle investments. The framework is intuitive and transparent, and it can be easily added to current spreadsheet investment analysis tools.

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Statistical and geographical study on demolished buildings

Cited by 55 publications

References 26 publications

An agent based environmental impact assessment of building demolition waste management: Conventional versus green management

An agent based environmental impact assessment of building demolition waste management: Conventional versus green management

Anticipating urban mining

Theory of valuing building life-cycle investments

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