The building stock as a research object

Kohler, Niklaus; Hassler, Uta

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“…Existing building stock is an important physical, economic, social and cultural capital to any nation (Kohler and Hassler, 2002). Building obsolescence/redundancy is identified as one of critical issues associated within the existing building stock.…”

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Adaptable buildings for sustainable built environment

Manewa

Siriwardena²,

Ross

et al. 2016

Built Environment Project and Asset Management

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Adaptable buildings for sustainable built environment http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/3672/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain.The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. LJMU Research Online Adaptable buildings for sustainable built environment PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the ability of 'adaptable buildings' to respond to future potential built environment changes in sustainable way.Design/methodology/approach A detailed literature review and a case study were undertaken to identify the life cycle changes of typical buildings over a period of more than 100 years. Twelve (12) semistructured interviews were conducted among construction industry professionals to identify how adaptable buildings enhance sustainability within the built environment. Case study data were analysed through a Morphological Analysis, and the interview data were analysed through discourse analysis. Originality/valueThis paper reports a longitudinal study spanning over 100 years, exploring the extent of building adaptation within a selected cluster of Liverpool city centre, UK. The study further confirms the need to incorporate adaptability as a key criterion when designing buildings. The increased rate at which 'change of use' has occurred further reinforces the need. Lack of track records on designing for reuse makes this an interesting challenge for the construction industry, hence likely to have significant implications for policy / strategy formulation.

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Adaptable buildings for sustainable built environment

Manewa

Siriwardena²,

Ross

et al. 2016

Built Environment Project and Asset Management

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“…There is a growing recognition that public policy needs to be evidence based, and for different policy strategies related to the building stock to be tested and evaluated according to that evidence. Kohler and Hassler (2002) considered 'the building stock as a research object' and concluded that as of now:…”

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Research on the building stock and its applications

Kohler

Steadman

Hassler

2009

Building Research & Information

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“…(Kohler and Yang, 2007, p. 4). By relating these different notions of human, social and cultural capital, even if the definitions do not always coincide, an unusual opportunity is created for transdisciplinary research (Kohler and Hassler, 2002;Hassler and Kohler, 2001). The built environment is both a dominating part of the manmade physical capital, and a principle ingredient in the social capital in the sense that it constitutes the place for social relations (Lawrence and Low, 1990, p. 484).…”

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Conceptualizing the built environment as a social–ecological system

Moffatt¹,

Kohler

2008

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Formulating a unified theory of the built environment may require that the built environment be understood as a complex social-ecological system, where multiple-related metabolisms interact at different scales. From this broad systems perspective, the dividing line between what is considered as nature and what is considered as built environment becomes a cultural attribute that changes with the historical context. Over the past four centuries, notions of environmental accounting and material metabolism have expanded from year-to-year economic and biological exchanges to energy, material, financial, and information flows extended through time and space. At present, the necessary extension of system limits in time and space is best achieved by combining a number of methods, including flow-based models and resource-conservation-based models, and top-down and bottom-up modelling approaches. Artefacts, flows, and actors can be linked over time by means of a common framework for describing the built environment, and by life cycle-oriented product modelling techniques. Despite such advances, existing theory seems incapable of fully integrating spatial and physical relationships, and is especially challenged when dealing with concepts of time. Ecological models provide a useful basis for new timing tools that integrate different time scales, past and future, and that allow for an assessment of adaptive capacity and other aspects of system resiliency. These models can be used to understand better the impact of different managerial and social policies at both the macro-and the micro-level. The management of the long-term evolution of this social-ecological system can only be assured through appropriating ecological concepts of time, and by integrating the history of nature with the history of human culture.Keywords: built environment, conceptual frameworks, ecosphere, ecosystem, metabolism, sustainability, temporal perspectives, theory-building, time, urban systemsFormuler une théorie unifiée du milieu bâ ti peut nécessiter que ce milieu soit compris comme un système socio-écologique complexe où des métabolismes multiples interagissent à différentes échelles. À partir de cette vaste perspective de systèmes, la ligne de partage entre ce qui est considéré comme la nature et ce qui est considéré comme le milieu bâ ti devient un attribut culturel qui change avec le contexte historique. l'impact des différentes politiques de gestion et politiques sociales aux niveaux macro et micro économiques. La gestion de l'évolution dans le long terme de ce système socio-écologique ne peut être assurée que par l'appropriation de concepts écologiques de temps et par l'intégration de l'histoire de la nature dans celle de la culture humaine.

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The building stock as a research object

Cited by 252 publications

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Adaptable buildings for sustainable built environment

Adaptable buildings for sustainable built environment

Research on the building stock and its applications

Conceptualizing the built environment as a social–ecological system

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