Since adaptations are an increasingly common type of activity architectural practice, and
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In the last decades, considerable work has been done regarding service life prediction of
buildings and building components. Academics and members of the CIB W080 commission …

This conceptual article analyses how both policymakers and academics often discuss the
state of buildings. Property vacancy and abandonment are generally approached statically …

One way of adapting and reusing vacant office buildings is conversion into housing. Former
research has shown possibilities for this type of conversion, and has delivered instruments …

Anthropogenic stocks are increasingly seen as potential reserves for secondary resources,
which has led to a rapid development in research of urban metabolic systems. With regard to …

Premature obsolescence of existing buildings is a significant challenge for sustainable
regeneration in cities internationally. Adaptive reuse is one approach to address …

Vacant and derelict buildings represent an insufficiently exploited resource. Several
frameworks have proposed how to assess an adaptive reuse potential of a building towards …

Cities have been built on the benefits of density, proximity, and connectivity. However, the
recent COVID-19 pandemic, along with continuously evolving communication technologies …

Shifts in property markets are closely tied to changes in investment actors' relations, shaped
by wider economic and regulatory processes. However, the existing literature generally …

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