How to Write a Building Disassembly Plan (2024)

• Developed by: Built (Australia)
• Description: "Built has proudly partnered with Coreo (leading circular economy strategic advisors) to release our ‘How to write a Building Disassembly Plan’ guide, along with useful templates below that can be used on DfD projects – providing practical guidance for creating a more sustainable, resource-efficient future for our built environment."
  • See link below for "How to write a Building Disassembly Plan", "Disassembly Plan questionnaire", and "Disassembly Plan template"
• Links: https://www.built.com.au/news/how-to-write-a-building-disassembly-plan/

Buildings That Last: Design for Adaptability, Deconstruction and Reuse (2020)

• Developed by: The American Institute of Architects (AIA)
• Description: "This practice guide looks at strategies for designing for adaptability, deconstruction, and reuse and covers:
  • the environmental, health, and economic benefits and more of using these design strategies
  • pitfalls to watch out for and how to handle them
  • case studies that demonstrate how flexible design can be beautiful design"
• Link: https://content.aia.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/ADR-Guide-final_0.pdf

Lifecycle Building Challenge - Key Challenge Guides (2009)

• Description: Navigate to the "Key Challenge Guides" section of the link below for the following DfD guidelines. The link below also lists numerous research publications on the topic of DfD. 
  • US EPA Lifecycle Construction Resource Guide
  • US EPA Design for Deconstruction: The Chartwell School Caser Study
  •  City of Seattle, King County, WA, and Resources, Inc. Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment: A Guide to Closed Loop in Design and Building
  • US EPA Design for Disassembly in the Built Environment: An Atlanta Home Case Study
• Link: https://www.lifecyclebuilding.org/resources.php

Buildings as Material Banks

• Description: "In the Project BAMB – Buildings As Material Banks 15 partners from 7 European countries were working together with one mission – enabling a systemic shift in the building sector by creating circular solutions."
• Link: https://www.bamb2020.eu/