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Design and Detailing for Deconstruction home | introduction | context | resource efficiency | design approach | principles | details |
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It is important to emphasise the scope and purpose of the detail drawings and specifications. They are included solely to show practitioners the sort of alterations that can be made in order to enable buildings to be repaired, altered and disassembled without undue damage to adjacent elements or the elements themselves, to afford as much re-use as possible and to increase the ease and cost effectiveness of re-use and recycling in construction generally. Their purpose is not to offer approved details in any sense, but to illustrate the difference between details and specifications which do not address deconstruction issues, and those that do. It is the differences between the originals and alternatives which is intended to be illustrative, not necessarily the alternatives themselves. The original details have been taken from conventional details and specifications we believe to be broadly representative of their construction types. We hope the principles shown, and the specific references made will assist designers in making similar changes in their own work, but it goes without saying that SEDA cannot take responsibility for any work undertaken as a result of the use of these details. Specifically, these details are not intended to show best practice in any sense, nor are they even intended to be up to date. We have striven in the preparation of these details and specifications to keep as close to the original as possible. We have done this in order to show that some quite fundamental alterations – in terms of deconstruction - may be made with the minimum of visual or functional impact on the original. Where these original details and specifications do not meet current standards or aspirations, the alternatives given are likely to be similarly wanting. To re-iterate, the purpose is not to produce approved details, but to illustrate the process of improvement – in terms of deconstruction only – that may be made.
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