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Building services component reuse: a response to the need for adaptability
journal contribution
posted on 2012-04-13, 12:18 authored by Roy S. Webb, Derek ThomsonDerek Thomson, John R. KellyAs businesses become more dynamic, their need for supporting buildings providing flexibly usable space is growing. While such space can readily be constructed, its servicing remains problematic. Continued use of existing practice to alter services installations with increasing frequency is predicted to have detrimental whole-life cost and environmental consequences. The reuse of functionally obsolete services components has been proposed as a new, more adaptable, method of servicing buildings. Such component reuse will implement the proposal of the UK government, proposed in one of its 'Technology Foresight' reports, that standardised components be reused to increase the competitiveness of the UK construction industry. This paper summarises models developed by a recently completed pilot study to assess the technical and economic feasibility of component reuse. These models identify the potential viability of component reuse but also identified a number of issues requiring further, more detailed, investigation.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
WEBB, R.S., THOMSON, D.S. and KELLY, J.R., 2000. Building services component reuse: a response to the need for adaptability. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 21 (2), pp. 91 - 97Publisher
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- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2000Notes
This article was published in the journal, Building Services Engineering Research and Technology [© Sage Publications]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014362440002100203ISSN
0143-6244;1477-0849Publisher version
Language
- en