Print Email Facebook Twitter Housing obsolescence in practice: Model implementation Title Housing obsolescence in practice: Model implementation Author Thomsen, A.F. Van der Flier, C.L. Faculty OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Department OTB Research Date 2013-06-19 Abstract Obsolescence is a serious threat for built property. As an often used demolition motive, obsolescence can be regarded as the last phase of the life span of buildings. From a sustainable viewpoint, life cycle extension is necessary to minimize waste. But there are more considerations to carefully maintain the existing stock. Knowledge about the prevention, the diagnosis and the treatment of obsolescence is therefor of growing importance. In previous research publications we combined the available knowledge about obsolescence in a conceptual model for further research on and appliance in the decision making about demolition. Since evidence based theoretical research references on obsolescence are rare, the model has inevitably an explorative character. As the next step in our research, a series of interviews and case studies were conducted to test and further develop the model. Following our previous paper reporting from case studies in the social rented sector, this paper covers case studies in the commercial rented and owner-occupied sector and an overview of tools to detect and measure different kinds of obsolescence as included in the conceptual model. Subject obsolescencelife cycle extensionhousing management,housing pathologydecision-making To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f6b5df96-46c7-4878-a0df-9cf6e994d4e4 Publisher ENHR Source ENHR 2013 Conference “Overcoming the Crisis, Integrating the Urban Environment", Tarragona, Spain, 19-22 June 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 293605.pdf 400.17 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f6b5df96-46c7-4878-a0df-9cf6e994d4e4/datastream/OBJ/view