Measuring the Benefits of Reusing Structural Components
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The Structural Xploration Lab at PLEA 2018 conference, Hong-Kong
The Structural Xploration Lab is attending the PLEA 2018 conference in Hong-Kong, "smart & healthy within the 2-degree limit". Two papers are presented, both related to the environmental assessment of reusing structural components in new buildings. The first paper, authored by Catherine De Wolf, Jan Brütting, and Corentin Fivet, provides parametric estimates of embodied carbon reductions when structural components are reused from and in typical office buildings. The second paper, authored by Endrit Hoxha and Corentin Fivet, discusses a case-study life-cycle assessment of a conceptual building designed for downstream reuse.