Choosing between the Rebuilding and Renovating Options

Abstract:

This position paper analyses the rebuilding and renovating options with the aim of improving the construction work performance and sustainability. As the main message, it challenges the idea that renovating is always better than rebuilding due to relatively minor operations. Instead, such a choice relies on different factors that shall scientifically be measured and tracked. Given the variety of different drivers involved in this process, this paper stresses the significancy of life cycle assessment and life cycle costing being proper methodologies to determine among which should be chosen and therefore incentives to be given. In that sense, the main drivers for choosing between the two are illustrated in this paper.