The Criteria For Decision Making In Adaptive Reuse Towards Sustainable Development

Abstract

Abstract. Adaptive reuse is an important strategy for achieving sustainability as it ensures a continuous building life cycle and prevents building destruction. Adaptive reuse has the greatest potential to lower the environmental load of the built environment significantly within the next 20 to 30 years. But, the owners and practitioners still lack of point of references to justify and evaluate their decision making with regard to the adaptation practice. The aim of this paper is to explore the unique criteria of decision making among practitioners in the application of adaptive reuse of existing buildings. The descriptive study has identified five main criteria influenced in decision making in adaptive reuse that effected to the sustainable development; economic, environment, social, legislative and architecture. We designed a questionnaire to determine the most significant criteria in decision making for adaptive reuse towards sustainable development among practitioners. The paper describes the process in identifying the unique criteria and the proposed methodology for the study.

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“…The building's grey energy is a crucial element as it revolves around energy consumption related to the transportations of materials and resources, construction or demolition works and the embodied energy of the materials. In addition, towards the environment, other benefits from adaptively reusing buildings include: decrease of carbon emissions and pollution as opposed to new constructions, minimization of demolition waste and reuse of contained energy, all of which have a positive effect on the affected communities [1], [9], [10]. hence, the practice of adaptive reuse should be cherished and applied more thoroughly as this corresponds to the notion of recycling in the talk around sustainability.…”

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“…On the basis of these main parameters it is possible to model the different strategies for building reconversion, promoting a regulation of the main stages for the implementation of smart construction policies and the modes of intervention, depending on society needs. Adaptive reuse is a fundamental strategy for achieving sustainability requirements and ensures continuous building operation, as well as an increase of its functional life (Mohammed & Alauddin, 2016).…”

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“…Considering these established statements, adaptive reuse is, indeed, a sustainable practice; the continuous life cycle of a building is ensured as the building of interest is prevented from destruction [10]. The life cycle is also connected with economic and environmental matters.…”

“…The building's grey energy is a crucial element as it revolves around energy consumption related to the transportations of materials and resources, construction, or demolition works and the embodied energy of the materials. In addition, environmentally speaking, other benefits from adaptively reusing buildings include: a decrease in carbon emissions and pollution as opposed to new constructions, the minimization of demolition waste, and the reuse of contained energy, all of which have a positive effect on the affected communities [1]- [3], [10]. Hence, the practice of adaptive reuse should be cherished and applied more thoroughly as this corresponds to the notion of recycling in the talk around sustainability.…”