Quantification of construction materials in existing buildings (material intensity)

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= Overview =

The existing building stock can be considered as an accumulation of physical material resources that could be used in the future to reduce the burden on primary materials. This page presents a list of academic research that focusses on quantifying the materials found in existing buildings. There are typically two main approaches to material stock assessment and these are referred to as top-down and bottom-up (Figure 1). As explained by Marinova et al (2020), “the top-down approach calculates stocks at the aggregate level, as the result of net-additions-to-stock of a material over a period of time. The bottom-up approach divides the stock into categories of products or applications and estimates the stock by characterising each of its components with a material intensity ratio (e.g. kg/m2)”.

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Figure 1 - Top-down and bottom-up perspectives (Schiller, Muller & Ortlepp, 2016, p.4)

Research on this topic ranges from individual developments, cities and regions to global assessments and covers a variety of building types (residential, commercial, etc.). The provided list is not exhaustive.

= List of academic literature =

{|
|width="20%"| Title
|width="20%"| Journal
|width="20%"| Material(s)
|width="20%"| Location (application)
|width="20%"| Year
|-
| [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13143 Material intensity database for the Dutch building stock: Towards Big Data in material stock analysis]
| Industrial Ecology
| Various
| The Netherlands (various)
| 2021
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590289X19300246 Quantification of material stocks in existing buildings using secondary data - A case study for timber in a London Borough]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Timber
| London, UK
| 2020
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619335280?via%3Dihub Modelling global material stocks and flows for residential and service sector buildings towards 2050]
| Cleaner Production
| Steel, concrete, aluminium, copper, wood, glass
| Global (residential, commercial)
| 2020
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619340168?via%3Dihub Global construction materials database and stock analysis of residential buildings between 1970-2050]
| Cleaner Production
| Steel, concrete, aluminium, copper, wood, glass
| Global (residential)
| 2020
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921344918304671 A spatial analysis of material stock accumulation and demolition waste potential of buildings: a case study of Padua]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Various
| Padua, Italy
| 2019
|-
| [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0021-x A database seed for a community-driven material intensity research platform]
| Scientific Data
|

| (data centralisation)
| 2019
|-
| [https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/225/1/012001 Capture and Control of Material Flows and Stocks in Urban Residential Buildings (BAMB)]
| IOP Conf: Earth and Environmental Science
| Various
| Munich / Freiham, Germany
| 2019
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344917303002?via%3Dihub Towards a more circular construction sector: Estimating and spatialising current and future non-structural material replacement flows to maintain urban building stocks]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Plasterboard, carpet, timber, ceramics, etc.
| Melbourne, Australia (non-structural material)
| 2018
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344918302441 Urban mining and buildings: A review of possibilities and limitations]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Metals
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands (residential)
| 2018
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921344917304135 Material-intensity database of residential buildings: a case-study of Sweden in the international context]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Wood, steel, etc.
| Sweden (residential)
| 2018
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921344916302348 Quantification of future availabilities of recovered wood from Austrian residential buildings]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Wood
| Austria (residential)
| 2017
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360132316304747?via%3Dihub Quantifying and mapping embodied environmental requirements of urban building stocks]
| Building and Environment
| Various
| Melbourne, Australia
| 2017
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921344916301380 Material stocks of the non-residential building sector: the case of the Rhine-Main area]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Various
| Rhine-Main, Germany (non-residential)
| 2017
|-
| [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jiec.12446 GIS-based analysis of Vienna’s material stock in buildings: GIS-based analysis of material stock in buildings]
| Industrial Ecology
| Various
| Vienna, Austria
| 2016
|-
| [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jiec.12211 The growth of urban building stock: unintended lock-in and embedded environmental effects]
| Industrial Ecology
| Various
| California, USA
| 2015
|-
| [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09613218.2016.1112096 Material stocks in Germany’s non-domestic buildings: a new quantification method]
| Building Research Information
| Various
| Germany (commercial)
| 2015
|-
| [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09613218.2014.979029 A method for determining buildings’ material composition prior to demolition]
| Building Research Information
| Bricks, concrete, sand/gravel, iron/steel, timber, etc.
| Vienna, Austria
| 2014
|-
| [https://isiarticles.com/bundles/Article/pre/pdf/69338.pdf Iron and steel in Chinese residential buildings: a dynamic analysis]
| Resources, Conservation & Recycling
| Iron, steel
| China (residential)
| 2010
|-
| [https://metabolismofcities.org/resources/publications/467 Exploration of urban stocks]
| Environmental Engineering Management
| Gravel/sand, marl/clay, cement, timber, copper
| Switzerland
| 2008
|-
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956053X06002923 Where will large amounts of materials accumulated within the economy go? - a material flow analysis of construction minerals for Japan]
| Journal of Waste Management
| Various
| Japan
| 2007
|}

= References =

Marinova, S., Deetman, S., van der Voeet, E. and Daioglou, V. (2020). Global construction materials database and stock analysis of residential buildings between 1970-2050. Journal of Cleaner Production, 247, 119146.

Schiller G., Müller, F. and Ortlepp, R. (2016). Mapping the anthropogenic stock in Germany: Metabolic evidence for a circular economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 123, pp93-107.

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2021-11-17T11:06:34Z

KSW: Top-down and bottom-up perspectives for material flow assessment (Schiller, Muller & Ortlepp, 2016, p.4)

Top-down and bottom-up perspectives for material flow assessment (Schiller, Muller & Ortlepp, 2016, p.4)

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Quantification of construction materials in existing buildings (material intensity)

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