Building for
Disassembly
- it is difficult to determine the
additional costs
involved with building for
disassembly since
some operations are more
labour intensive for
both construction and disassembly
Holistic Sustainable Design
- approaches that include the building,
the local
community, employees, and
management
decision
- incorporating reusable and recyclable
materials
- natural daylight; fresh air; and
careful selection of
building materials, finished
products, and
construction practices
- planning to off-set higher construction
costs by
long-term energy savings
and material durability
- making the building a place where
people like to
work or live
MEC Green Building Programme
Reduce: avoid using
unnecessary materials
Reuse: incorporate
existing materials
Recycle: use existing
materials in new ways
Rethink: look for new
and better building solutions
Stakeholders
- a building owned and operated
by its tenants gives
them a stake in its ecological
design and the
benefits from a creating
a healthy environment
- buildings constructed for speculation
tend to be
generic and take few risks
with respect to eco
design
Learning from Local Traditions
- combine the techniques of ecological
building with
the skill set of the local
population
- lower embodied costs by using
local materials
that have proven effective
over generations of use
- understand the local vernacular
of a culture
- use the building to teach about
more ecologically
sensitive ways of construction
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