It?s easy to look at an old factory or warehouse and only see decay or emptiness. But these structures hold hidden value far ...

Steel has been an important construction material since the 19th century. A team from the University of Birmingham and University of Cambridge, along with Chetwood Architects, is making it more ...

Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Our research shows one such ...

"Where you see the tiny holes in the steel beam, that means it’s from House of Fraser on Oxford Street,” says Basil Demeroutis, managing partner at property developer FORE Partnership. Above his head, ...

Study: Optimized steel frame design using reclaimed steel: Logistics impact on reuse efficiency. Image Credit: Kub The Shadow Simple Man/Shutterstock.com Researchers have recently introduced a ...

A n old hotel turned into trendy apartments; a restaurant built in a former bank; and a warehouse divided into cool office spaces are three prime examples of adaptive reuse. In today’s climate of ...

Look around any city or town, and you’ll likely find examples of aging buildings in need of restoration, rehabilitation, or reconstruction. From rural villages to urban metropolises, the world around ...

Sustainability awards and standards touted by professional architecture organizations often stop at opening day, failing to take into account the day-to-day energy use of a building. With the current ...

Both these decisions remind me a lot of what the IRS is doing with syndicated conservation easements. There are serious valuation problems, but the IRS ends going after the deduction on technical ...

The ReCONNstruction Center, a nonprofit building materials reuse store in New Britain, is helping to save tens of thousands of pounds of building materials from landfills one piece at a time. Instead ...