The development of sustainable products requires not only the consideration of production
processes. Rather, strategies and concepts for the end-of-life management of post …

This article discusses the role of lifestyle in physical material accounting and introduces a
new method for simultaneously determining national or regional resource demand and …

Activities related to refurbishment of the building stock as a percentage of all building work
have been constantly growing in most central European countries over the last 20 years …

Building stock models (BSMs) are essential for simulating the contributions of regional and
national building sectors to climate change under different policy scenarios, and for …

Formulating a unified theory of the built environment may require that the built environment
be understood as a complex social–ecological system, where multiple-related metabolisms …

The management and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment WEEE was
assessed in the city of Delhi, India. In order to do this, the personal computer was defined as …

The building sector consumes large quantities of resources and generates high levels of
construction and demolition (C&D) waste. From an 'urban mining'perspective, the building …

The built environment is composed of buildings, infrastructures and cultural landscapes
(stocks). These man-made artefacts constitute a complex capital (natural, man-made …

Increasing scarceness of primary raw materials leads to a heightened focus on secondary
resources. Deposits from urban infrastructure, mainly the building stock, are a potential …

A prerequisite of the efficient recycling of demolition waste and its evaluation in terms of the
material specific recycling rates is information on the composition of the building material …