The report, entitled The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse, has been said to provide the most comprehensive analysis of the potential environmental benefit of building reuse to date. Most notably, it concludes that, when comparing buildings of equivalent size and function, building reuse almost always offers environmental savings over demolition and new construction. — earthtechling.com
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I don’t really think that if it’s not immediately cheaper then it’s not worth doing. Innovation is not always cheap (usually is very much the opposite) – yet over time can lead to cheaper and/or “better” results.
We would certainly stop all innovation if we thought of the future in such near terms.
@metal the study speaks about savings in terms of carbon footprint/environment not economics, as far as I could tell. though you are perhaps correct that there might be instances where an environmental more "expensive" project might develop innovations that over time are better in terms of carbon footprint etc..
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