Abstract
Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transfor-mation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This paper dis-cusses a new developed tool to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents an overview of the many factors and aspects that enable or hinder adaptive reuse by conversion of (office) buildings into housing, and how to assess the characteristics of the market, location, building and involved stakeholders. It presents the Conversion Meter, formerly known as the Transfor-mation Meter, a tool to assess the conversion potential of vacant office buildings into housing.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances on Sustainable Cities and Buildings Development (SB-LAB 2017) |
| Publisher | Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Event | SB-LAB 2017: International Conference on Advances on Sustainable Cities and Buildings Development - Porto, Portugal Duration: 15 Nov 2017 → 17 Nov 2017 http://sb-lab.greenlines-institute.org |
Conference
| Conference | SB-LAB 2017: International Conference on Advances on Sustainable Cities and Buildings Development |
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| Country/Territory | Portugal |
| City | Porto |
| Period | 15/11/17 → 17/11/17 |
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Bibliographical note
Accepted Author ManuscriptKeywords
- Adaptive reuse
- transformation
- conversion meter
- assessment tool
- vacant buildings
- risks
- opportunities