The Adaptive Reuse of Buildings: A Sustainable Alternative towards Circular Economy Solutions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 13475
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Interests: renewable energy; sustainability; green management; green investment; environmetal protection
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Interests: sustainable rehabilitation; historical buildings; renewable energy; green infrastructures; construction site management; recycled and smart materials
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Interests: renewable energy; sustainability; green management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today, there are many theories supporting the reuse and rehabilitation of existing buildings and the fact that there is much debate on this subject, both among researchers and in the industrial world, confirms its importance. This best practice can be applied on a small scale, such as in the case of recovery of materials or a construction element, but also on a large scale, as in the case of an abandoned industrial site or an entire neighborhood or historic center. The implementation of this practice requires the collaboration of different knowledge and skills ranging from intervention planning, energy efficiency analysis, economic feasibility assessments, to environmental and social analysis.
For this reason, it is necessary to think in terms of a global and interdisciplinary strategy, involving the different aspects of the concept of sustainability, like the environmental, economic, and social ones. This is also with a view to promoting a self-sustaining circular system. However, there are actually some issues today that are not properly addressed in existing literature. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to collect contributions concerning the theme of rehabilitation and reuse of buildings and whole built contexts. It includes theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and review papers, from a broad variety of disciplines and stakeholders.
This is because there is the belief that the significance of the problem of reuse and retrofit requires an interdisciplinary approach to solutions and holistic visions for scenarios selection, which necessitates special skills training of the professionals involved.
Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:
- Measures, tools, and policies to promote sustainability in the rehabilitation process and retrofit;
- Energy saving;
- Circular economy;
- Recovery of materials;
- Recycling, reuse, regeneration, and recovery of waste;
- Criticality and procurement of materials;
- Economic implications linked to the adoption of circular economy principles, costs, and benefits of waste management;
- Landfill optimization, mining, and environmental remediation;
- Construction and demolition waste.
Prof. Federica Cucchiella
Prof. Marianna Rotilio
Dr. Valeria Annibaldi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- retrofit
- rehabilitation
- reuse
- materials
- waste
- circular systems
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