A transformation process: recovering space and materials
New buildings for various uses (residential, industrial, commercial, etc.), and construction in general (bridges, roads, etc.), will always be needed to fulfil new necessities of society, so construction activities are always indispensable. However, those activities can be carried out with either, a linear or a circular economy approach.
On this matter, demolition plays a key role when trying to achieve a circular economy in the construction sector.
To build those new constructions, there are basically two extreme options, with various possible combinations in between: look for a new site in which to build from scratch with new materials; or seek for a site with a disused construction, demolish it, thus recovering that space and the materials that made it up, and thus build by reusing space and materials.
So, to summarize, demolition allows recovering materials which can be either, reused or recycled, for new constructions, decreasing substantially the necessity of raw materials for new constructions.
Furthermore, it allows, not only to recover space, but it contributes to avoiding taking up unnecessarily more space, as it has already been said, it reduces the necessity of raw materials and the generation of wastes, reducing that way the amount of terrain needed to extract that new material and landfill those wastes.
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