This session will combine an empirical study of the life cycle carbon and economic impact of select reuse case studies with the real-world experience of a large architectural firm, yielding new insight into the benefits of adaptive reuse and the unique challenges these projects face.
Join us to review new research that quantifies the embodied carbon reductions associated with adaptive reuse at scale as well as community and economic co-benefits. You'll also discover how successful projects have overcome the regulatory and economic hurdles that can hinder adaptive reuse, helping architects find new opportunities to transform existing structures.
Learning Objectives
- Compare the economic and sustainability drivers for pursuing a building reuse strategy in several different contexts around the globe.
- Find out how to apply analysis of new regulations around embodied carbon and circularity to generate interest in adaptive reuse.
- Explore strategies to navigate the financial and technical hurdles to the adaptive reuse of existing real estate assets.
- Learn how to apply key metrics for evaluating the economic and sustainability benefits of adaptive reuse to any urban development project.