WEBSITE REVIEW: Design and detailing for deconstruction

Design for Deconstruction is a very chockers and useful sustinable building link from the UK...

"a wonderfully produced substantial guide for detailing of buildings for easy deconstruction. It clearly illustrates and discusses the detailing of five typical costruction systems, showing and contrasting details for both normal and design-for-deconstruction approaches. Its discussion is quite practice focussed and includes commentary on costs, defects liability, and insurance issues. The whole is a 2.5MB pdf but also downloadable in a number of parts." Matt Fisher ABSA


Detailing for the Deconstruction of Buildings, a guide developed at the University of Dundee, Scotland, encourages designers and builders to use materials and methods that would enable the bulk of buildings to be reused or recycled once they have reached the end of their useful lives. Methods can involve a variety of measures, from using lime mortars and renders instead of cement—allowing bricks and blocks to be more easily separated—to exploring different types of insulation and more durable materials such as reusable ceiling tiles. “The guide’s alternative details are designed for maximum “applicability” rather than ultimate greenness,” says Fiona Stevenson, chair of the Scottish Ecological Design Association. http://www.seda2.org/dfd/index.htm