Stop building for demolition
AG百家乐在线赌场官网鈥檚 board director, Richard Hubbard, talks to WIRED's Deputy Global Editorial Director, Greg Williams on measuring the true value of property assets.
Stop building for demolition with AG百家乐在线赌场官网 | WIRED Briefings
As the world continues to urbanise, the impact of physical infrastructure is being scrutinised like never before.
In order for the construction industry to reposition the importance of buildings and the value they deliver for people and communities (not just bricks and mortar), the industry needs to commit to collaborating and bringing all the right parties to the table at the right time.
鈥淲e鈥檝e got a lot of the component parts to make a change but when I think of how buildings are built, the decisions are already made鈥澛�
Richard Hubbard, Board Director, AG百家乐在线赌场官网
鈥淚t鈥檚 all well and good saying 鈥榣et鈥檚 have a modular solution鈥� but if the building has been designed and reached planning approval, you can鈥檛 then shoe horn in that kind of stuff retrospectively鈥� continues Richard. "So for me, it鈥檚 a fundamental shift in the traditional roles that we see in construction today and a different degree of collaboration is needed between local authorities, companies, designers, consultants and building contractors.鈥�
This all starts in the planning conversation and shifting the mindset from just designing for aesthetics and building for demolition to the whole lifetime asset value and performance.
Hubbard says technology is 鈥渃ritical but it will remain a gimmick and in the periphery unless we can change mindsets that actually not everything has to be bespoke because what we鈥檙e talking about here is a standardised kit of parts.鈥�
鈥淭he end point of all this is, to take it to it鈥檚 furthest extreme and really put sustainability and ESG at its core, you would end up with a materials bank that you could endlessly take apart and rebuild as something else. That's where you get real circularity.鈥�
Richard Hubbard, Board Director, AG百家乐在线赌场官网
Through AG百家乐在线赌场官网's latest research and insight report 鈥�Sustainable Buildings Monitor: Redefining Value鈥�, they are establishing a purpose-driven framework to measure the true value of property.
Read more insights from Sustainable Buildings Monitor: Redefining value here.
