Quotidien Durable .Com - Blog Developpement Durable - Télétravai. Vertualité : L'actualité de tout ce qui se prétend vert et écolo. Le Geek Ecolo. Green is Good. Consommer Durable. TOUT ALLANT VERT: Le blog. Planète-Attitude. Be Lagom. Abonéobio : Le blog du bio. Buzzecolo - Buzz et développement durable. Ecoconception. Findings include: Reuse Matters.
Building reuse typically offers greater environmental savings than demolition and new construction. It can take between 10 to 80 years for a new energy efficient building to overcome, through efficient operations, the climate change impacts created by its construction. The study finds that the majority of building types in different climates will take between 20-30 years to compensate for the initial carbon impacts from construction. Scale Matters. Collectively, building reuse and retrofits substantially reduce climate change impacts. Retrofitting, rather than demolishing and replacing, just 1% of the city of Portland’s office buildings and single family homes over the next ten years would help to meet 15% of their county’s total CO2 reduction targets over the next decade.
Design Matters. The Bottom Line: Reusing existing buildings is good for the economy, the community and the environment.