Building products remain in use for long time spans, which affects the planning and integration of strategies to recover them for reuse. Moreover, once they are released from buildings, these products may not be compatible with new updated technical building requirements, or may not be competitive with upgraded, certified and cheaper new products.
To foster the integration of industrial activities to promote more efficient use of resources from the anthropogenic environment, it requires a better understanding of the constraints and opportunities among relations within a non-linear economy.
This research focuses on the relationship between metabolic changes in the housing stock and the industry of building product reuse. The goals of this study were: i) to provide a systems perspective of the commercial industry "to-be" of reusable building products; ii) to illuminate the factors that control the fluidity of reusable products, and consequently understand how to revert and improve relations in the industry in focus.
TUDelft