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An Introduction to the Circular Economy
Published in Marcello Tonelli, Nicoló Cristoni, Strategic Management and the Circular Economy, 2018
Marcello Tonelli, Nicoló Cristoni
Regenerative Design is an innovative approach with a focus on devising processes that restore and improve both sources of energy and materials used, and the society and the environment at large. In the construction industry for example, the creation of regenerative cities envisions buildings that continue to burn fossil fuels, but at a rate that can be reabsorbed through “bio-sequestration” in soils and forests.5 Living spaces can also be designed to produce more energy than is required, devoting what remains to grow vegetation and food for the local community and to protect ecosystems where animals can shelter and live (Nugent et al. 2016).
Regenerative Design For Achieving Net-Zero Energy Commercial Buildings In Different Climate Types
Published in Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages, Susana Couceiro da Costa, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, 2017
Regenerative design is a design approach for existing buildings, which utilizes comprehensive sustainable, energy-efficient and resilient design methodology (Aksamija 2015). In building retrofits, regenerative design is conceived as exploration and improvement of buildings’ functionality, aesthetics, human comfort, and energy performance. Different from historic preservation, regenerative design of existing buildings can be applied extensively for retrofits and adaptive reuse, allowing buildings of different types, functionalities, and sizes to be upgraded efficiently and cost-effectively.
Green Careers and Ecotourism
Published in Julie Kerr, Introduction to Energy and Climate, 2017
Although regenerative design is a part of sustainable living, it is not the same as sustainable design. Sustainability implies something that endures over time without degrading, but it does not regenerate itself or create anything new. A plastic bottle sustains; a plant regenerates. Sustainable design aims to provide for fundamental human needs; regenerative design goes further in that it plans for the future co-existence and co-evolution of humans and other species.
Selection of Core Indicators for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage
Published in International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2022
Joana Gonçalves, Ricardo Mateus, José Dinis Silvestre, Ana Pereira Roders, Graça Vasconcelos
The Living Building Challenge (LBC) is a commercial international building certification method applied in more than 25 countries worldwide. It was initially launched in 2006 by Cascadia Green Building Council (GBC) — a coalition between the Canada and US Green Building Councils. The idea behind the LBC was to improve the LEED rating system (from the US GBC) by moving “beyond merely being less bad and to become truly regenerative” (Living Future Institute 2019). Regenerative design is an emerging concept defined by Cole (2013) as a method that emphasises “a co-evolutionary, partnered relationship between humans and the natural environment”. This definition connects with that of sustainable conservation (Gonçalves, Mateus, and Silvestre 2019), as heritage is a co-evolutionary process of the environment, made of intangible, tangible and natural aspects. One of the main differences with other certification tools, such as LEED or BREEAM, is that LBC’s indicators are entirely focused on existing buildings and the assessment is based on the actual performance.
Leveraging socio-ecological resilience theory to build climate resilience in transport infrastructure
Published in Transport Reviews, 2019
Samantha Hayes, Cheryl Desha, Matthew Burke, Mark Gibbs, Mikhail Chester
One emerging discipline that incorporates many of these considerations, is regenerative design. It seeks to deliver solutions that are holistic, adaptable and that create opportunities for disruption and change to lead to regenerative impacts. Regenerative design recognises the built environment as embedded within complex systems and calls for design approaches that not only minimise harm to these systems but that also regenerate them. Exploring resilience in this context, regenerative design may look to the broader SET system and ask “What does resilience look like in this place?”; “What are the social and ecological functions that support resilience here?”; and, “How can these be measured, contributed to and learned from?”.
Defining the environmental performance of neighbourhoods in high-density cities
Published in Building Research & Information, 2018
Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Edward Ng, Chao Ren, Justin Ching-Kwan Ho, Li Wan, Yuan Shi, Yingsheng Zheng, Fangying Gong, Vicky Cheng, Chao Yuan, Zheng Tan, Kam Sing Wong
Engaging stakeholders, particularly urban and building inhabitants, provides the ‘values and aspirations’ to inform the planning, design, development and occupation processes (Cole et al., 2012). Regenerative design, which creates the regenerative capacity of designed systems, therefore allows building inhabitants to ‘design, create, operate and evolve regenerative socio-ecological systems in their place’ (Mang & Reed, 2012, p. 36). As such, the behaviour, health, and wellbeing of building and urban inhabitants can be enhanced, given the regenerative capacity and potential development occurred within. The development of the NSA tools requires stakeholders’ participation in developing the indicators of neighbourhood sustainability to ensure that the indicators do not conflict with the values, priorities, needs and positions of different parties in the neighbourhood (Roseland, 2000). In the development of BEAM-ND, different types of stakeholders were involved in order to acquire the views and aspirations from industry and the community (Table 2). They were also invited to share their expectations and the acceptability of the proposed assessment and rating scheme. In the development stage of the BEAM-ND tool, participation from the community or inhabitants is rather limited since it mostly affects the practices of urban planners and designers and various government departments in a manner that existing policies and regulations may need to be reviewed to be in line with the tool itself. Nonetheless, in the framework of the BEAM-ND tool, community engagement forms an integral part in the ‘community aspect’ which accounts for 20% of the credit points.