Sustainable building reuse

: understanding user preferences for the housing market

Abstract

Vacant buildings represent an insufficient exploited "gold mine" for future developments. By finding the future users preferences, vacant buildings can be reused and could generate a significant contribution towards a more sustainable development within the construction industry. Throughout this paper the environmental, social and urban benefits of building reuse are presented and a discrete choice experiment is used to indicate the most important attributes and the preferences of the potential future occupants.

Date of Award	31 Aug 2013
Original language	English
Supervisor	W.F. Schaefer (Supervisor 1), B. Glumac (Supervisor 2) & Qi Han (Supervisor 2)