To Build or to Rebuild, That is the Question

To Build or to Rebuild, That is the Question

Author: podcast@skanska.com (Skanska) February 1, 2024 Duration: 22:03

In this episode of Shaping Sustainable Places we discuss what is best: to refurbish an old building and bring it up to modern standards, or knock it down and construct a new low-carbon building instead? 

Both sides have their pros and cons.  

This episode's guests: 

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, architect and Founding Partner, Snøhetta, and Ståle Rød, Executive Vice President, Skanska Group. 

 

Learn more at Foresight. 

 

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