The preliminary assessment of adaptation potential in existing office buildings

    Sara Wilkinson Info
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715X.2013.853705

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It is said that the battle for sustainability will be won or lost in the world's cities and a major tactic in this challenge will be the sustainable adaptation of existing buildings. Evidence based decision-making tools are required for the management of built assets. This research examined every building adaptation event between 1998 and 2008 with the relative importance of property attributes derived using a principal component analysis (PCA), from which a weighted index of optimal decision- making attributes in a predictive model was proposed; the Preliminary Assessment Adaptation Model (PAAM). The model is discussed and applied in an illustrative case study. Given further development and testing the PAAM might be useable by non-experts and property managers to appraise the suitability of a building for potential adaptation.

First Publish Online: 21 Mar 2014

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Building adaptation, Decision-making tool, Office buildings, Australia

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Wilkinson, S. (2014). The preliminary assessment of adaptation potential in existing office buildings. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 18(1), 77-87. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715X.2013.853705

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Wilkinson, S. (2014). The preliminary assessment of adaptation potential in existing office buildings. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 18(1), 77-87. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715X.2013.853705

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