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Next step end-of-lifetime: Chances of reusing single storey halls
Published in Airong Chen, Xin Ruan, Dan M. Frangopol, Life-Cycle Civil Engineering: Innovation, Theory and Practice, 2021
A new view to the building to be demolishes does not focus on materials and their use as a recycled product but on parts of buildings as they are. Wouldn’t it be good to keep columns and beams intact and to reuse them as already premanufactured used parts for a new building and to give them a new life? To precisely differentiate demolition with the intend of reusing parts from demolition intending the use of raw materials from now on deconstruction is used to describe the intend to keep parts or whole building intact and demolition is used only in the meaning of a total teardown with focusing on materials (see Figure 1).
More than 300 teardowns later: patterns in architecture and location among teardowns in Naperville, Illinois, 2008-2017
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2022
Developers and property owners construct, maintain, alter, convert and/or tear down buildings and residences and thereby shape physical and social structures as well as neighbourhoods and communities (e.g., Warner 1978; Wright 1981; Kelly 1993; Gieryn 2002; Jacobs 2015). Teardowns, where land and homes are purchased, the existing home is razed, and a new, larger home is constructed, are one form of change in buildings that often affect older homes in desirable suburban or urban residential neighbourhoods. While typically only involving a single property, teardowns can put the interests of property-owners against the vision for properties and neighbourhoods held by neighbours, local organizations, and local leaders (Szold 2005; Higgins 2006; Nasar, Evans-Cowley, and Mantero 2007). Teardowns can be associated with McMansions (Miller 2012), a negative association that highlights their size and incongruent design. Still, teardowns are now part of the ongoing development of American suburban streetscapes and communities (McAlester 2013, 92–93; Dines 2020, 233–248).