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Circular Industrialized Construction: A Perspective Through Design for Manufacturing, Assembly, and Disassembly

Buildings
Improving resource efficiency by reducing waste and process inefficiencies across the building life cycle is essential for advancing sustainability in the built environment.
Héctor Hernández
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Towards sustainable construction waste management: Study on a disassemblable brick partition wall for the architecture, construction, and engineering industry

Circular Economy
This study proposes an approach to combat construction waste in the architecture, construction, and engineering (ACE) industry by developing a disassemblable brick partition wall.
Yi Xu, Shujie Liu, Felix Heisel
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Demands for DfD data characteristics: a step towards enabling reuse of prefabricated concrete components

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
Adoption of the design for disassembly (DfD) concept is suggested as a promising strategy to cope with the climate targets and increase circular economy in the construction sector.
Ulrika Uotila, Arto Saari, Tuomo Joensuu
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Life cycle cost comparison of design for disassembly and conventional prefab concrete buildings

Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
This study explores the impact of design for disassembly (DfD) design solutions on the life cycle costs of a precast concrete building, comparing these costs with those of conventional design solutions.
Tommi Partanen, Ulrika Uotila, Tuomo Joensuu, Arto Saari   +3 more
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A New Approach of Design for Disassembly Quantitative Assessment for Building Integrated Systems

Buildings
The building sector is responsible for a significant share of global greenhouse gas emissions, raw material usage, and waste generation, driving the need for new circular design strategies.
Maxime Deru, Pierre Roger, Maia Louvard, Saed Raji, Pascale Brassier, Martino Gubert, Marzieh Zarei   +6 more
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Quantitative Analysis of Life-Cycle Embodied Carbon in Residential Buildings Under Different Design Patterns

Buildings
The building sector is a major source of global carbon emissions, with embodied carbon playing an increasingly critical role. This study quantitatively compares the life-cycle embodied carbon of three residential building design patterns (cast-in situ ...
Rihan Hai, Ruijie Du, Yu Shao, Limuge Che, Ruihong Yan, Quanyi Zheng, Yuling Chen, Mengxiao Jin   +7 more
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Design for Disassembly: An analytical method for assessing target components for remanufacturing

Cleaner Production Letters
The transition to a circular economy requires products to be designed for recovery, reuse, and remanufacturing. Fastening systems and product architecture play a decisive role in enabling these strategies, yet practical methods for assessing design-for ...
Sofie Bach Hybel, Emilie Folkmann, Lykke Margot Ricard   +2 more
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Ecodesign Strategies for Battery Enclosures: A Design-Driven Approach to Modularity, Single-Materiality and Circularity

Designs
The environmental impact of battery systems is strongly influenced by early design decisions related to materials, structural architecture and assembly strategies.
Antoni Lara, Albert Cruz, Sylvia Andrea Cruz, Magnus Carl Fredrik Eriksson, Antonio Confalonieri, Andreu Sanz   +5 more
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Life Cycle Assessment of a Swedish Multifamily Building Designed for Disassembly and Flexibility: Impact of Allocation Methods on Future Scenarios

Buildings
Quantifying the environmental benefits of designing buildings for disassembly and flexibility (DfD/DfF) remains challenging within current life cycle assessment (LCA) frameworks.
Sandra Moberg, Frida Görman
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Upcycling Strategies for Resilience Reconstruction Goals: A Case Study of an Italian Public Building

Buildings
This study examines the economic and financial implications of the upcycling process and Design for Disassembly (DfD) applied to an “authorial” building.
Francesco Tajani, Alberto Bologna, Giuseppe Cerullo, Endriol Doko, Francesco Sica   +4 more
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