The present discussions aimed at the rebuilding of Fren-chay Hospital began in 1977 under the auspices of the Avon Area Health Authority. The brief was to plan for a replacement of the whole hospital and asked for planning to be divided into ?2 million aliquots but this rapidly proved an absurd constraint and was deleted. A more fundamental requirement was for the development to be divided into...

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We examine different market-based mechanisms and other incentives intended to promote the environmental remediation and reuse of brownfields. Policies that encourage cleanup and re-use of brownfields offer real estate developers reductions in regulatory burden, relief from liability for future cleanups once certain mitigation standards are met, and/or financial support for regeneration of brown...

Real estate owned (REO) housing resulting from the recent foreclosure crisis threatens to destabilize lowand moderate-income neighborhoods across the country. Nonprofit organizations seeking to redevelop these properties into affordable housing face weak market conditions and operate with limited resources and capacity. This study presents a framework through which nonprofits can analyze REO re...

Increasing demand for developable space in urban areas has created increased interest in construction on top of old landfills. Landfill redevelopment projects can include hard uses such as commercial, industrial, or infrastructure facilities and soft uses such as athletic fields, golf courses, and amphitheatres. Engineering challenges associated with landfill redevelopment include foundation de...

It must have been a very long time since man first discovered that buildings too rise and fall. A forest is planted, harvested, and replanted; a machine built, used and dismantled; and likewise, a site is constructed, occupied, and reconstructed... Perhaps the first systematic analysis of building life cycles was on costs. Surveyors and building economists in the UK first wrote on life cycle co...

A large number of researchers have studied the behavior of infilled frames. It is evident through their studies that infill walls can provide both an economic and practical means for the lateral stability of framed structures and a viable alternative for retrofitting existing structures to resist seismic, wind, and blast loads. Despite this, there is reluctance from the engineering community to...

The present study is concerned with the simultaneous optimization of the size of components and the arrangement of connections for performance-based seismic design of low-rise SPSWs. Design variables include the size of beams and columns, the thickness of the infill panels, the type of each beam-to-column connection and the type of each infill-to-boundary frame connection. The objective functio...

Inner city redevelopment frequently involves the assembly of small lots into bigger ones. We analyze joint lot development and the influence of coordination and transaction costs of land assembly on the exercise of the redevelopment option, using Amsterdam micro housing information for 1832, 1860 and 2015. In all, we have a complete set of building structure and household characteristics for dw...