Danielle Densley Tingley - Research Student

Telephone: 25726
Room: D120

email : cip09dod@sheffield.ac.uk

Research Group

Research Project

Making the case for Design for Deconstruction

By designing buildings for deconstruction now the future supply chain of reused materials can be dramatically increased, facilitating the specification of reused materials and therefore reducing the embodied energy and carbon of these future buildings. Design for deconstruction (DfD) is economically, technically and environmentally feasible, however there is still little uptake of this type of design. This project aims to quantify the environmental savings (both carbon savings and landfill avoidance) that can occur through design for deconstruction and the subsequent material reuse, therefore demonstrating the environmental case for DfD. The project will also investigate methods of overcoming some of the barriers to DfD, for example rewarding it within environmental assessments like BREEAM and LEED.

Publications

• Densley Tingley, D. & Davison, J.B. 2010. Changing Environmental Assessment Methods to Reward Material Reuse. As part of: 9th International Detail Design in Architecture Conference, Preston, England, 4th & 5th November 2010