Design for Disassembly in the Construction Supply Chain: The Case of Textiles in Architecture

The construction industry is one of the most polluting on a global scale. The dominant logic in the industry is linear: new buildings are built while old ones are demolished, and rarely their materials are recycled or reused. Moving towards circular supply chains can reduce the environmental impact of the sector. To enable the transition to circular supply chains in construction, there is the need to shift to new design paradigms, among others Design for Disassembly. The study focuses on this design approach, which seeks to maximize end-of-life material reuse or recycling by separation of components. In this paper, we analyze the case of the architecture of textiles. Throughout interviews with experts and the analysis of selected cases from secondary sources, an assessment is carried out to establish how suitable these constructions and their materials are in relation to Design for Disassembly. Copyright (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)