Circular Buildings: An Outline of Circularity in Building Production
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2023
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Peter Lang Publishing Group
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
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Buildings cause various many environmental effects such as natural resource consumption, waste generation, pollution, etc. All these environmental effects are expected to increase in parallel with population growth and urbanization. As a resourceintensive industry, the construction industry puts enormous pressure on limited resources on earth. In this context, many approaches have been developed so far to ensure sustainability in buildings. One of them is the application of the circular economic model in building production. The circular economy aims to redesign the entire production system depending on the principles of; eliminating waste and pollution; circulating the products and materials (at their highest value) and regenerating natural systems. Ensuring circularity in building production is a circular design research area that increases its importance day by day. Accordingly, “circular design” and “circular buildings” concepts were put forward by different researchers in the construction industry. In this context, this study aims to present a general overview of the circular economy concept in “building production” through a “circular building” perspective. It is aimed to contribute to the reduction of the environmental impacts of the buildings by increasing awareness about ensuring circularity in buildings. There are various strategies and approaches for the implementation of the circular economy in building production. On the other hand, there is no standardized framework for the application of circularity in buildings and three is no consensus in the literature regarding the usefulness and functionality of different circular building design strategies. Moreover, Buildings are unique and complex products and building production includes different variables such as project type, project size, building materials, technologies and techniques used in construction, etc. The complex nature of building production may cause constraints in the transition to a circular built environment Therefore, the layered structure of buildings that have different lifetimes causes difficulties in applying the circular design principles at different stages of building production. Besides, buildings have long lifetimes and circular design strategies are usually applied to short- lived products. Buildings are unique products that have artistic value, unlike many other products in the production cycle. In this context, the issue of how to preserve the artistic values and the uniquity feature of the buildings in the context of the circular design and circular building concepts is an important research problem. Being an important research gap, academic researchers on this subject are needed. Another difficulty in ensuring circularity in building production is the existing buildings that were not designed according to the circular design principle. In this context, considering the long lifetimes of the buildings, there is also a need for studies on the ensuring circularity of existing structures in their life cycle. © 2023 Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
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circular building, circular construction, circular design, circular economy, circularity in building production
Kaynak
Sustainability, Conservation and Ecology in Spatial Planning and Design: New approaches, solutions, applications
