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. 2020 Apr;38(4):347-370.
doi: 10.1177/0734242X20910463. Epub 2020 Feb 29.

Components reuse in the building sector - A systematic review

Kambiz Rakhshan  1 , Jean-Claude Morel  1 , Hafiz Alaka  2 , Rabia Charef  1
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Components reuse in the building sector - A systematic review

Kambiz Rakhshan et al. Waste Manag Res. 2020 Apr.

Abstract

Widespread reuse of building components can promote the circularity of materials in the building sector. However, the reuse of building components is not yet a mainstream practise. Although there have been several studies on the factors affecting the reuse of building components, there is no single study that has tried to harmonize the circumstances affecting this intervention. Through a systematic literature review targeting peer-reviewed journal articles, this study intends to identify and stratify factors affecting the reuse of components of the superstructure of a building and eventually delineate correlations between these factors. Factors identified throughout this study are classified into six major categories and 23 sub-categories. Then the inter-dependencies between the barriers are studied by developing the correlation indices between the sub-categories. Results indicate that addressing the economic, social and regulatory barriers should be prioritized. Although the impact of barriers under perception, risk, compliance and market sub-categories are very pronounced, the highest inter-dependency among the sub-categories is found between perception and risk. It suggests that the perception of the stakeholders about building components reuse is affected by the potential risks associated with this intervention.

Keywords: Reuse; building components; building sector; circular economy; construction and demolition waste; superstructure; systematic literature review.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Systematic literature review framework (inspired by Charef et al. (2018), PRISMA (2018) and Yi and Chan (2014)).
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Subject area of the excluded papers during the screening process at stage 2.
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Publications by year.
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Publications by location.
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Distribution of the observed reuse drivers. eco: economic; env: environmental; org: organizational; reg: regulatory; soc: social; tec: technical.
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Figure 6.
Distribution of the observed reuse barriers. eco: economic; env: environmental; org: organizational; reg: regulatory; soc: social; tec: technical.
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