Print Email Facebook Twitter Continuing the building's material cycle: A literature review and analysis of current systems theories in comparison with the theory of cradle to cradle Title Continuing the building's material cycle: A literature review and analysis of current systems theories in comparison with the theory of cradle to cradle Author Van Dijk, S. Tenpierik, M.J. Van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. Faculty Architecture Department Architectural Engineering +Technology Date 2012-06-28 Abstract Recently, the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) theory set ground in the Netherlands, propounding that environmental impact reduction can provide a positive economical impulse to stakeholders. The building industry has warmly received this approach and considers it to be a solution to the above-mentioned burden. However, if the building sector wants to implement C2C into their practice, a paradigm shift is required. Therefore, the sector must overcome the many difficulties it encounters while striving for an eco-effective built environment. Current sustainability strategies focus on reducing the negative environmental impact of buildings. The systems theory of C2C however aims at a positive impact; this could suggest that the state-of-the-art becomes inadequate when adopting C2C as a strategy for improvement. This paper reviews contemporary systems theories and analyses them in the light of C2C, focusing on closed or continuous materials cycles. The paper finalises by describing the hiatus in and correspondence between these current theories and C2C theory. From the study we found that C2C provides new features that help continue materials cycles, just as the contemporary theories provide potentially useful additional material for C2C. Moreover, it reveals a striking difference between the state-of-the-art and C2C. For this paper, the Dutch building practice and industry were taken as case study. Approaches and results nevertheless are replicable to be used in other countries striving for optimised management of resources. Subject Cradle to Cradlebuildingclosed cyclecontinuous cyclesmaterialssystems theory To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:52ba6f04-5cc2-4cd8-a775-151413ef4627 Publisher CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction) ISBN 978-85-65823-05-0 Source SASBE 2012: 4th CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Sao Paualo, Brasil, 28-30 June 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s) Files PDF 294989.pdf 1.2 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:52ba6f04-5cc2-4cd8-a775-151413ef4627/datastream/OBJ/view