Week 7| Building Adaptation or Refurbishment

 Due to the seminar in this week, Ms. Liew advise us the refurbishment rather than demolition and construct new building. Due to the public impact as we found during our group discussion, health and safety issue and the cost could be a major problem in this proposed development site at Matilda Street. 

The demolition or refurbishment of older housing has been an active policy area since the late 1880s in the UK, when the government first authorised the statutory demolition of  unsanitary slums. The debate on demolition and new building has been intensified since 2003, the government was also encourage all the contractor to opt for refurbishment rather than demolition due to sustainability policy.

Refurbishment offers clear advantages in time, cost, community impact, reuse of existing structure and protection of existing communities. It can also lead to significantly reduced energy use in buildings in both the short and long term in our proposed site at Matilda Street. So that, Our group had decided the refurbishment as our proposed method.