Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Enhancing Building Energy Sustainability Through Adaptive Reuse Strategies
With the continuous expansion of urban centers and the escalating effects of climate change, ensuring flexibility, sustainability, and durability in building design has become increasingly crucial. This research addresses the challenge of designing adaptable buildings by focusing on adaptive reuse as a strategy to prolong the life of structures through their modification for new uses. By incorporating adaptive reuse strategies at the earliest stages of design and construction, buildings can be reconfigured after their initial life for secondary and possibly even tertiary uses with minimal structural changes, reducing the need for future costly renovations while promoting energy efficiency and environmental conservation. This research introduces a decision-making tool for architects and engineers, enabling early integration of adaptive reuse strategies into building design, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and modification potential. This research focuses on proactive building design that emphasizes energy-related initiatives and includes procedures that identify areas suitable for modifications and assess their energy efficiency potential during the building design phase. This tool can apply sustainable development, circular economy and cost analysis principles to provide evidence to enhance material, technology, and design choices. It is further improved through case studies, the example in Kapfenberg, Austria where energy efficiency and flexibility of the design were improved. Further demonstrating the effective application of the developed tool, data from a building located at 21 Sanford Ave N, Hamilton, Ontario will be processed to demonstrate the decision-making tool can be a valuable guide for design professionals and builders in the conceptual and schematic design phases of a project to consider the key decisions that can have a positive impact on the proposed building’s post use fostering circular economies and sustainable stewardship at the buildings conception. In conclusion, this research ...
Enhancing Building Energy Sustainability Through Adaptive Reuse Strategies
With the continuous expansion of urban centers and the escalating effects of climate change, ensuring flexibility, sustainability, and durability in building design has become increasingly crucial. This research addresses the challenge of designing adaptable buildings by focusing on adaptive reuse as a strategy to prolong the life of structures through their modification for new uses. By incorporating adaptive reuse strategies at the earliest stages of design and construction, buildings can be reconfigured after their initial life for secondary and possibly even tertiary uses with minimal structural changes, reducing the need for future costly renovations while promoting energy efficiency and environmental conservation. This research introduces a decision-making tool for architects and engineers, enabling early integration of adaptive reuse strategies into building design, with an emphasis on energy efficiency and modification potential. This research focuses on proactive building design that emphasizes energy-related initiatives and includes procedures that identify areas suitable for modifications and assess their energy efficiency potential during the building design phase. This tool can apply sustainable development, circular economy and cost analysis principles to provide evidence to enhance material, technology, and design choices. It is further improved through case studies, the example in Kapfenberg, Austria where energy efficiency and flexibility of the design were improved. Further demonstrating the effective application of the developed tool, data from a building located at 21 Sanford Ave N, Hamilton, Ontario will be processed to demonstrate the decision-making tool can be a valuable guide for design professionals and builders in the conceptual and schematic design phases of a project to consider the key decisions that can have a positive impact on the proposed building’s post use fostering circular economies and sustainable stewardship at the buildings conception. In conclusion, this research ...
Enhancing Building Energy Sustainability Through Adaptive Reuse Strategies
Tamim, Alma (Autor:in)
01.01.2025
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Enhancing sustainability through designing for adaptive reuse from the outset
| Online Contents | 2015
Enhancing sustainability through designing for adaptive reuse from the outset
| Emerald Group Publishing | 2015
| Springer Verlag | 2022