In Malaysia, demolish and rebuild the whole building is general based on client's needs and for the profitability intention. Whereas, refurbishment is much more popular than redevelopment in UK because refurbishment can achieve environmental sustainability through simple and low cost improvements but redevelopment is not workable. Based on ICE (2011), UK policies encourage their communities to refurbish the property instead of demolish and rebuild. This is because they are much more aware of the environmental and sustainable issue compare to Malaysia.
Besides, industry has a long way to go towards cutting carbon emissions but there is much that can be achieved via refurbishment. For proposed development project at Matilda Street, it should be refurbishment only because it’s under conservation area, which conserved under Sheffield City Council.
It was no doubt of my judgment to refurbish the proposed development now, not only it is environment friendly, but also cost saving. In addition, CIOB encourage refurbishment as refurbishment can bring benefit and value to the building and the society.
However, there a lots of defects on the existing building such as ceiling collapse, roof leakage, wall cracking and etc. The cost against the defects should be aware.Therefore, a proper site survey should be carry out and identify all the risk through the building. I had learned to create a table to identify the potential risk that could happen during construction stage and when develop a project, follow by the impact and solution. Table below showed the risk assessment.
References:
CIOB, 2011' CIOB Buildings Under Refurbishment and Retrofit' viewed 21 July 2014, http://www.carbonaction2050.com/sites/carbonaction2050.com/files/document-attachment/Buildings%20under%20Refurb%20and%20Retrofit.pdf
thanks for your information
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