3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Buildings as material consumer and waste
producer – Ciruclar economy concept
• Minimize the environmental impact of
the material used for construction
• Optimize design, planning,
construction, operation, disassembly,
Re-use of sustainable materials
TIR Transformation process
• Participation of stakeholders
• Financing of investments,
refurbishment
• Subsidies, regulation, legislation
• Public responsibilities?
• How to introduce innovations?
• Governance of transformation?
• Education
Fig. 6: Fields of action in the building sector for implementing the TIR roadmap
Urban planning will also need to focus on the public space between buildings with accessible
streets, bicycle and foot lanes and places to meet and play. These features significantly impact
the social life in the district. Additional needs include access to shops, education, culture, and
jobs, all of which are very much influenced by urban planning. Building façades are the walls of
the public space and characterize it. In cities with large buildings, façades are often used for
advertisements and information and contribute to the lighting of the public space.
The construction industry is also an important business sector. Buildings are often the most
significant forms of property people possess and the quality of buildings plays an important role
in their personal wealth. In addition, the construction process should be viewed as a highpriority
challenge, to be addressed by the TIR roadmap using BIM tools to expedite high-quality
planning, construction, operation, refurbishment and dis-aggregation and reuse.
All these aspects of the building sector, which are shown in Fig 6, should be taken into account
by identifying necessary actions as part of the TIR transformation process in the building sector.
The TIR proposals for the building sector focus on refurbishment of residential buildings, an
action plan for non-residential buildings, integral and sustainable concepts for the construction
sector, lighthouse districts, and resiliency.
Resilience for the Built Environment
Climate change is dramatically transforming the water cycles of the Earth, giving rise to
unprecedented winter snows, extreme spring floods, dramatic summer droughts and wildfires,
unprecedented heatwaves, and Category 3, 4, and 5 huricanes. The result is catastrophic
impacts on human infrastructures and the built environment. Existing buildings in communities
around the world were not designed to withstand these climate related events.
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