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Geometry-Driven Stock-Constrained Truss Design via Equilibrium-Based Structural Models

This paper presents a geometry-driven approach to form-finding with reused stock elements. Our proposed workflow uses a K-mean algorithm to cluster stock elements and incorporate their geometrical values early in the form-finding process. A feedback loop i ...

Springer2024

Reusability assessment of reinforced concrete components prior to deconstruction from obsolete buildings

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Julie Rachel Devènes

A large part of building demolitions is motivated by purely socio-economic reasons. Hence, about-to-be-demolished structures, commonly made of reinforced concrete, very often present no or little degradation. When adaptive reuse of the entire building is n ...

2024

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola

Carefully extracting reinforced concrete (RC) elements from soon-to-be demolished structures and reusing them as load-bearing components is an emerging circular low-carbon alternative to building new structures. As floor construction typically accounts for ...

IABSE2024

Structural component reuse of precast and cast-in-place reinforced concrete in architecture since the late 1960s in Europe

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer

The reuse of concrete pieces salvaged from structures undergoing transformation or demolition into new architectural projects has gained a sudden and visible interest over the past five years. However, the practice of reusing concrete pieces in new structu ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2024

Reusability Assessment of Obsolete Reinforced Concrete Structural Components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Julie Rachel Devènes

The production of concrete, the most widely used construction material, detrimentally affects the environment. Obsolete reinforced concrete (RC) load-bearing structures, even when still in good condition, are today prematurely crushed and landfilled or rec ...

Springer2023

Low-tech methods for the reuse of reinforced concrete structural elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Nicole Widmer, Julie Rachel Devènes

Most of existing buildings are made of concrete, new buildings are being built with it and others are demolished when still in good structural condition. This drives increased demands for raw materials, greenhouse gas emissions, and an accumulation of demo ...

2023

A Reuse-Ready Timber Slab-and-Column System for Modular Building Structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Alex-Manuel Muresan, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos

The construction industry is a significant contributor to resource consumption and waste generation. To address this issue, component reuse has been proposed as a way to prevent valuable building elements from being discarded and avoid producing new ones. ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2023

Zürich Stadtspital Triemli Personalhäuser – Resource assessment of structural elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Julie Rachel Devènes

The Triemli Personalhäuser are three equal 15-story buildings located on the Zürich Triemli Stadtspital campus and erected between 1964 and 1969. Cast-in-place reinforced concrete (RC) slabs and walls form the building cores and their surrounding corridors ...

EPFL2022

Re:Crete – reuse of concrete elements in new structures: A footbridge prototype

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Célia Marine Küpfer, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Julie Rachel Devènes

Concrete accounts for the largest share of worldwide building material use and waste generation, with cement production being responsible for approximately 9% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. A currently untapped strategy to significantly reduce thes ...

CRC Press2022

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Geometry-Driven Stock-Constrained Truss Design via Equilibrium-Based Structural Models

Reusability assessment of reinforced concrete components prior to deconstruction from obsolete buildings

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Structural component reuse of precast and cast-in-place reinforced concrete in architecture since the late 1960s in Europe

Reusability Assessment of Obsolete Reinforced Concrete Structural Components

Low-tech methods for the reuse of reinforced concrete structural elements

A Reuse-Ready Timber Slab-and-Column System for Modular Building Structures

Zürich Stadtspital Triemli Personalhäuser – Resource assessment of structural elements

Structural Design from Reclaimed Material Sauvabelin – The Never-Ending Story

Re:Crete – reuse of concrete elements in new structures: A footbridge prototype

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Structural component reuse of precast and cast-in-place reinforced concrete in architecture since the late 1960s in Europe

Low-tech methods for the reuse of reinforced concrete structural elements

Reusability Assessment of Obsolete Reinforced Concrete Structural Components

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

Geometry-Driven Stock-Constrained Truss Design via Equilibrium-Based Structural Models

Structural Design from Reclaimed Material Sauvabelin – The Never-Ending Story

Reusability assessment of reinforced concrete components prior to deconstruction from obsolete buildings

Zürich Stadtspital Triemli Personalhäuser – Resource assessment of structural elements

A Reuse-Ready Timber Slab-and-Column System for Modular Building Structures

Re:Crete – reuse of concrete elements in new structures: A footbridge prototype