Sustainable deconstruction starts with careful planning! After all, the majority of new construction or refurbishment projects are now preceded by deconstruction. It makes sense to integrate sustainable demolition into the overall planning of the construction project right from the start. A systematic approach based on a checklist makes the process easier for you.
What makes deconstruction sustainable?
Sustainable deconstruction measures pursue several goals at once: They increase the value of the building fabric, contribute to its protection and express an appreciation of the materials. Systematic deconstruction planning at an early stage not only saves resources, but also costs and valuable time.
Transparency must be created and knowledge generated right through to the optimization of material flows and the expansion of logistics and infrastructure processes, which is then available to planners and decision-makers at all levels, including at municipal level. A truly circular construction and real estate industry can only emerge if we also close the circle of knowledge carriers. The more efficiently a sustainable demolition project is carried out, the more effectively material flows are closed. All in the spirit of a circular construction and real estate industry.
The following measures contribute to preserving the value of resources in the sense of a circular economy:
Improve and expand processes
Creating transparency
Identify hazardous substances and dispose of them appropriately
Optimise recycling and disposal
Focus on people
One of the fundamental challenges for the implementation of a circular construction and property industry lies in its complexity. It encompasses a large number of detailed issues and involves numerous stakeholders, some of whom have had little to do with each other to date. Added to this are the long utilisation periods with constantly changing framework conditions due to changes in users, urban development and social changes. All of this shows: Construction and buildings are complex.
"A systematic view of the planning of demolition measures is required"
This also means that we need a holistic approach. The decisive impetus must be provided in the right places along the entire value chain. Otherwise, the necessary transformation will not succeed.
One of these important impulses is to focus on the issues of today's dismantling and the associated legal and economic framework conditions.
A truly circular construction and property industry can only emerge if we also close the circle of knowledge carriers. We need to dissolve the previous boundaries resulting from differences in time or interests and make the relevant knowledge available to all those involved. This can work if everyone involved is open to exchanging ideas and learning from each other.