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Download fileDesigning for short life: industry response to the proposed reuse of building services components
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posted on 2012-04-16, 12:46 authored by Derek ThomsonDerek Thomson, John R. Kelly, Roy S. WebbBusiness activity is increasingly subject to influences such as technological advancement and rising
consumer expectations which necessitate a flexible approach to working practices particularly in the
short-term. Organisations subject to frequent change must be supported by buildings that can readily
accommodate changes in the use of internal spaces. Changing the use of a serviced usable space
often necessitates alteration of supporting services installations.
The functional, rather than physical, obsolescence of building services components will become more
common as the rate of space use change increases. Current practice causes functionally obsolete
components to be discarded when altering services installations. Reusing such functionally obsolete
components, however, will recover the value of their embodied residual un-depreciated capital
investment and under utilised physical life, thereby reducing the cost of services installation alteration
and, indirectly, increasing serviced usable space flexibility.
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School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
THOMSON, D.S., KELLY, J.R. and WEBB, R.S., 1998. Designing for short life: industry response to the proposed reuse of building services components. Proceedings of COBRA '99, RICS Construction and Building Research Conference, 2nd-3rd September 1998, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.Publisher
RICSVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
1998Notes
This is a conference paper. The definitive version is freely available at: http://www.rics.org/ISBN
1873640234Language
- en