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Adaptive reuse of industrial structures in the United States (1 C, 7 P) This page was last edited on 31 July 2020, at 08:54 (UTC). Text is ...
Adaptive reuse is defined as the aesthetic process that adapts buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features. Using an adaptive reuse model can prolong a building's life, from cradle-to-grave, by retaining all or most of the building system, including the structure, the shell and even the interior materials. [6]
By emphasizing service reuse, the reliability of the reusable services becomes an important issue as multiple service consumers depend on the same service. Other design principles like service autonomy principle and service statelessness principle provide guidance in order to deal with reliability and availability related issues.
Applicants submit proposals for using these buildings to provide services or business in the form of social enterprise. Submissions include detailed plans to show how: [4] [5] the historic buildings would be preserved; their historical significance would be brought out effectively; the social enterprise would operate in terms of financial viability
Resource recovery can be enabled by changes in government policy and regulation, circular economy infrastructure such as improved 'binfrastructure' to promote source separation and waste collection, reuse and recycling, [5] innovative circular business models, [6] and valuing materials and products in terms of their economic but also their social and environmental costs and benefits. [7]
Pan Asia Logistics was founded in Singapore by the German-born Christian Bischoff and the Singaporean Susan Tan. [4] [5] Having previous experience at the German logistics company DB Schenker and Thyssen Haniel, Christian Bischoff started Pan Asia Logistics’ operations in February 2003 and achieved with 50 employees a revenue of $20 million by the end of the year.
Building conservation in Singapore is the responsibility of URA, which issued a Conservation Master Plan in 1989. This plan laid down guidelines and processes for the conservation of culturally and historically significant buildings. [2] More than 7000 buildings in Singapore have been gazetted as conserved buildings.
The Warehouse Hotel is a boutique hotel housed in a row of three adjoining historic warehouses on Havelock Road within the Singapore River planning area. Completed in 1895, the building, which is "one of the oldest independently standing warehouses in Singapore", previously housed the Warehouse Disco, the country's largest discotheque.