Demolition Contractors' Perceptions of Impediments to Salvage and Reuse of Wood Structural Components

Environmental policies and green building rating systems such as BREEAM and LEED have a positive impact on reuse rates.

“The environmental policies (Chileshe et al., 2018) and green building rating systems such as Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) are reported to have a positive impact on reuse rates (Shaurette, 2006; Gorgolewski, 2008).”

Informality and good relationships among stakeholders help overcome the trust challenge and promote reuse.

“However, according to a few articles, informality and good relationships among the stakeholders are reported to help overcome this challenge and promote reuse (Chileshe et al., 2016b; da Rocha and Sattler, 2009; Shaurette, 2006).”

Perceptions of clients, contractors and designers have a higher impact on successful integration of recovered components into a new building.

“Among the stakeholders, the perceptions of clients (Chileshe et al., 2015; da Rocha and Sattler, 2009; Dunant et al., 2017; Rose and Stegemann, 2018), contractors (Gorgolewski, 2008; Shaurette, 2006) and designers (Gorgolewski, 2008) have a higher impact on the successful integration of recovered components into a new building.”

Lack of skills, experience, and knowledge in deconstruction, salvage and using reused components negatively affects reuse of building components.

“According to the literature, the lack of skills, experience, and knowledge in deconstruction, salvage and using reused components negatively affect the reuse of the building components (Chileshe et al., 2015, 2016b; Gorgolewski, 2008, Shaurette, 2006, Yeung et al., 2015).”

Lack of procedures to evaluate and guarantee performance of reused components, and existing codes, standards and procedures not considering BCR, further decrease the reuse rate in construction.

“Therefore, the lack of procedures to evaluate and guarantee the performance of reused components (Shaurette, 2006, Tingley et al., 2017), and the fact that the existing codes, standards and procedures do not consider BCR (Gorgolewski, 2008; Huuhka and Hakanen, 2015; Rameezdeen et al., 2016; Tingley et al., 2017), further decrease the reuse rate in construction.”

Lack of confidence in the quality of reused components negatively affects reuse in new constructions.

“Lack of confidence in the quality of the reused components negatively affects reuse in new constructions (Ajayi et al., 2015; Chileshe et al., 2015, 2016b, 2016a; Shaurette, 2006 (among others)).”

Training operators for effective deconstruction is a factor driving reuse.

“Training operators for effective deconstruction (Dantata et al., 2005; Elias Özkan, 2012; Shaurette, 2006), availability of space for the storage of the reusable components after deconstruction (Rogers, 2011) and knowledge and experience in using reused components (Tingley et al., 2017), as well as proper separation of the reusable components after deconstruction (Ajayi et al., 2017; Ding et al.,”