The preliminary assessment of adaptation potential in existing office buildings
It is said that the battle for sustainability will be won or lost in the world's cities and a major tactic in this challenge will be the sustainable adaptation of existing buildings. Evidence based decision-making tools are required for the management of built assets. This research examined ev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2014-03-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Strategic Property Management |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/IJSPM/article/view/3448 |
| Summary: | It is said that the battle for sustainability will be won or lost in the world's cities and a major tactic in this challenge will be the sustainable adaptation of existing buildings. Evidence based decision-making tools are required for the management of built assets. This research examined every building adaptation event between 1998 and 2008 with the relative importance of property attributes derived using a principal component analysis (PCA), from which a weighted index of optimal decision- making attributes in a predictive model was proposed; the Preliminary Assessment Adaptation Model (PAAM). The model is discussed and applied in an illustrative case study. Given further development and testing the PAAM might be useable by non-experts and property managers to appraise the suitability of a building for potential adaptation.
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| ISSN: | 1648-715X 1648-9179 |