DW Arts And Culture July 12, 2024
More Climate Friendly to do this they say we need more refurbishing and less demolition. And we need to use a lot more of whats already there no matter how efficiently and sustainably a new building is constructed in terms of c o 2 using whats already there is much better. Buildings use a lot of whats called embodied energy the sum of all the energy needed for construction when theyre torn down that energy is wasted yet buildings are still being earmarked for demolition like munichs arabella high rise just 50 years old and the citys main train station its claim that refurbishing is more expens...