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Student: Ashley Brenner
Advisor: Deirdre Hennebury
From academic papers to the popular press, it is clear that the increasing world population is resulting in an unsustainable acceleration of energy consumption and material extraction. In architecture, one impact of this growth has been the need for more housing with its
associated environmental burdens including the energy required to extract and transport raw building materials, and to construct and maintain these homes. In an attempt to reduce these costs, the green building movement emerged in the 1990s to promote resource-efficiency throughout a building’s life-cycle.
Today, two of the most important design strategies for achieving sustainable goals are adaptive reuse and net zero energy. Although adaptive reuse projects are not a new phenomenon and have historically embraced design economy, utility, and durability, those including net zero energy objectives account for fewer than 25% of these projects. Clearly the potential of net zero reuse is not being realized. Through the analysis of case studies in adaptive reuse and net zero building, this thesis seeks to evaluate best practices in sustainable architecture that will inform a set of design development guidelines. The goal of this research is that these principles will assist in
removing existing barriers to the successful implementation of net zero reuse.
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