Reassembly
Re is a Latin prefix meaning anew or again (as well as back or against), so reassembly simply means to put something together again.
In more technical construction terms PAS 1192-2:2013: Specification for information management for the capital/delivery phase of construction projects using building information modelling (BIM), defines assembly as: 'Group of components or types to enable the reuse of standardised design or specification elements improving productivity of design and delivery as well as providing a location to hold specifications and lessons learnt in a simple and useable way. They may hold benchmark data for cost and carbon impacts. The contents of assemblies may themselves have attributes and classifications. These properties may include key data which is attached (to the object) for use once it is placed into a model and may include cost, CO2, programme, maintenance and other key information.'
So reassembly might mean to put elements of a building together again, for example where the frame of a building might have been pre-assembled in the workshop, then disassembled before being delivered to site only to be reassembled in situ permanently.
In the case of putting something together again a new it may refer to reclaiming, reusing or repurposing materials in relation ot the circular economy, such as a demolished log house being reassembled in the garden as a sauna.
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