Tillvaratagande och återanvändning av träbyggnadsmaterial : tjänstedesign för återbruk inom byggsektorn

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this Bachelor degree project is to design different types of services that can increase the amount of re-used timber within the building sector and by that means improve their environmental efforts. By examining how the sectors environmental work concerning recycling and re-using timber as a building material is getting on at present, conclusions have been drawn about what further could be done for improvement. The project has shown that there is a scarcity of information and statistics within the sector, but that there are efforts in progress to change this. Questionnaires have been sent to a number of companies working with demolition and utilizing re-usable materials in order to find out what kind of problems there are within the trade. Unfortunately the survey gave insufficient result due to the low reply frequency. It is obvious that active environmental work within the building sector is important and the knowledge acquired while working with the project has led to the design of three suggestions for services regarded as being of interest for improving the negative environmental impact caused by the sector: Suggestion 1 – Sale of construction parts prior to the demolition of a building Suggestion 2 – Re-utilization circulation when manufacturing buildings Suggestion 3 – Education in relation to the purchase of houses   The positive and negative qualities of the suggestions have been examined with SWOT-analysis and further adaptions and the results have been interpreted. The comparison has been based on the customer´s, the manufacturer´s and the seller´s and society´s point of view.  However the suggestions have not been put to the test in practice. All three service suggestions have proven interesting for further projects. Help and knowledge from different companies and persons involved in the sector who are affected by the drafted suggestions is necessary. As a consequence of the bounds of this project this has not been possible yet. This project demonstrates three suggestions which could contribute to a reduction of the negative environmental impact caused by the building sector. Hopefully this project will lead to at least one of the suggestions having an impact in the near future.