Print Email Facebook Twitter Adaptive capacity of buildings: A determination method to promote flexible and sustainable construction Title Adaptive capacity of buildings: A determination method to promote flexible and sustainable construction Author Geraedts, R.P. Remøy, H.T. Hermans, M.H. Van Rijn, E. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Real Estate and Housing Date 2014-08-03 Abstract The subject adaptive construction is already for decades on the agenda of the construction sector. The adaptive capacity of a building includes all properties and qualities that enable the building keeping its (economic feasible) functionality during the technical life cycle, under altered conditions and needs. Meanwhile, the interest in flexible building has increased significantly from a broader perspective than before. This increased interest is caused by the high structural vacancy of buildings, the economic crises and the increased awareness of and interest in sustainability issues and circular economy. The relationship between flexibility and sustainability is explicitly laid. Market developments demonstrate an increased demand for flexibility and sustainability as well as a growing awareness of the necessity of a circular economy in construction. This explicit sustainability constraint ensures a consciously look towards the sustainable efficiency of flexibility measures. These measures are sustainable only if they are actually used during the life cycle of buildings. The Dutch Government, a number of companies and branches of the construction industry started a public-private initiative in 2012 to promote and accelerate sustainable building in the Netherlands with the project called: a method to determine the Adaptive Capacity of Buildings. The cause of the present research is the lack of a widely accepted method with assessment criteria for measuring the potential for adaptation into other possible functions during the life cycle of a building. In this research paper a full report is given of the development of this method to determine the Adaptive Capacity of Buildings (the AC Method), the research methods used and the preliminary results. Subject adaptablesustainableflexiblevacancyassessment method To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3c57e976-5af4-4e05-a66d-723604ded852 Source UIA2014: 25th International Union of Architects World Congress "Architecture otherwhere", Durban, South Africa, 3-7 August 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s) Files PDF 307253.pdf 1.52 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3c57e976-5af4-4e05-a66d-723604ded852/datastream/OBJ/view