Development of a Regenerative Design Model for Building Retrofits

• Published in: Procedia engineering Vol. 180; pp. 658 - 668
• Main Authors: Craft, W., Ding, L., Prasad, D., Partridge, L., Else, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2017
• Subjects: Building Retrofit; Ecosystem Restoration; Energy Efficiency; Health and Wellbeing; Regenerative Design; Ecosystem Restoration; Regenerative Design; Building Retrofit; Energy Efficiency; Health and Wellbeing

Current building retrofits are predominantly focused on energy and cost efficiency at an individual building or building component scale. Whilst the aspirations of these retrofits are crucial to the sustainable development of our built environment, we can and need to do better. Many argue that we ne...