Print Email Facebook Twitter Demolition in Europe: Volume, motives and research approach Title Demolition in Europe: Volume, motives and research approach Author Thomsen, A.F. Van der Flier, C.L. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB onderzoek Date 2010-10-26 Abstract What determines the life span of dwellings? Much is known about the initial phase of buildings. The vast majority of scientific knowledge is concentrated on the building initiative, the programming, design and in particular the construction. Knowledge about the utilization phase, including management, transformation and redesign is growing. But applicable knowledge about the end of life is still scarce. As the housing is ageing and the deliberation between life cycle extension or demolition is getting more and more important, knowledge about demolition, the decisive motives, the pro and cons and the consequences is getting just as necessary as the initial phase. In the last decade we did a series of surveys on demolition in the Netherlands, directed at the social rented as well as the private stock. Based on these surveys we developed a conceptual model of demolition and underlying decisive motives. In search to what extend our findings are also viable in a broader area, we also looked at demolition data in other EU countries and found similarities as well as differences. Underlying an emerging European research cooperation, the paper explains the relevancy of a Europe wide survey, defines the research objectives, problem definition and main research questions, and proposes a conceptual model and an outline for a broad comparative research. Subject demolitiondwellingslife cyclelife spanhousing managementdecision makingmotivescomparative researchNetherlandsEurope To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5d2395aa-7c73-4ede-bf8e-f69adf5aa454 Publisher IAHS Source IAHS World Congres on Housing Science: Design, Technology, Refurbishment and Management of Buildings, Santander, October 26-29, 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 The Author(s); Delft University of Technology Files PDF 263542.pdf 62.78 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5d2395aa-7c73-4ede-bf8e-f69adf5aa454/datastream/OBJ/view