“How should we build today to be able to circulate tomorrow?” This is one of the main questions theInFut UReWood Project (Innovative Design for the Future – Use and Reuse of Wood (Building) Components) tries to answer. But to find answers we need to step back and ask: “How did we build yesterday and what prevents reuse of building components at the moment?” This case study looks at the condition of recovered timber from the demolition of a relatively modern light timber frame building in the UK. We evaluate the chances and barriers for the reuse of demolition timber and discuss which measures in the design and planning of buildings would be most influential in the transition towards a more circular economy for construction timber.
Keywords: circular economy, demolition, reuse
Authors
Marlene Cramer
Daniel Ridley-Ellis
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