Buildings in the UK are often being demolished because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, and intact materials be-come waste in the process (Cramer and Ridley-Ellis, 2020a). About one quarter of the UK’s wood waste results from building demolition and is mostly chipped and incinerated for energy production (Cramer and Ridley-Ellis, 2020b). Deconstruction instead of demolition would allow the reuse of timber and wooden building elements, so that they could replace virgin materials and avoid be-coming waste, while also having a smaller environmental impact than new materials (Bertino et al., 2021; Niu et al., 2021). The In-FutUReWood project (infuturewood.info) focuses on the reuse of structural timber and is working on improving the design of buildings to facilitate deconstruction and reuse, amongst other things. For this purpose, we conducted six case studies in four of the partner countries, which analyse the design of contemporary houses and seek to improve them to facilitate deconstruction and reuse. The case study presented here focuses on a Scottish light timber frame house, which is partly manufactured offsite and is a typical example of UK timber-frame construction, as described by Lancashire and Taylor, 2012.
Keywords: Circular economy, offsite con-struction, timber frame, demolition
Authors
Marlene Cramer
Edinburgh Napier University, Unit 1, Seven Hills Business Park, Bankhead Crossway S, Edinburgh EH11 4EP, United Kingdom
Ylva Sandin
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