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Flexible Design for Deconstruction and Reuse

  • Materials and Recycling
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Flexible Design for Deconstruction and Reuse is about reducing environmental impacts by lengthening the life cycle of the building and the materials and products used in the building. In this way there are two aspects, a flexible design of the building itself; allowing for changing use over time, and secondly a design that enables optimal resource recovery at the end of life.
 

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Industry Education

  • Sustainablity Management
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Creating sustainable developments not only means physically constructing efficient buildings and communities, it also means changing the behaviour of the people that live in, and operate the developments. Developing sustainable communities now and into the future means significant behavioural change at the construction and the occupation phases.

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