Arlind Dervishaj

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• Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Design methods, frameworks, and green building certifications have been developed to create a sustainable built environment. Despite sustainability advancements, urgent action remains necessary due to climate change and the high impact of the built environment. Regenerative Design represents a shift from current practices focused on reducing enviro...

This paper reviews digital tools for supporting the Circular Economy (CE) in the built environment. The study provides a bibliometric analysis and focuses on computer-aided design (CAD), building information modeling (BIM), and computational plugins that can be used by practitioners. While Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the primary methodology for...

Due to urbanization and growing density in cities in the past century, metrics were introduced to assess daylight performance such as minimum sunlight hours and the daylight factor. The paper initially explores the shortcomings of early-stage daylight and sunlight evaluation methods. A novel methodology called Sunlight Autonomy (SA) is proposed for...

Concrete is the most used construction material, accounting for 8% of global CO2 emissions. Various strategies aim to reduce concrete’s embodied carbon, such as using supplementary cementitious materials, utilizing cleaner energy, and carbonation. However, a large potential lies in reusing concrete for new buildings in a Circular Economy, thereby c...

This study proposes a concept and workflow for solar, context-adaptive and reusable facades. Integrating solar control with parametric facade design, the workflow uses solar radiation to inform facade modules with variable openness or properties (e.g. frit cover), enabling envelopes to adapt to urban context changes while promoting circularity. The...

Concrete production contributes to around 8-9% of global CO 2 emissions. Reusing building components in a circular economy can contribute to closing material loops and lowering CO 2 emissions. When reusing concrete elements, it is necessary to have effective methods for evaluating their reuse potential. In this study, a novel digital workflow is de...

The ReCreate project researches deconstruction and reuse of precast concrete elements, not originally designed for disassembly. Real-life deconstructions of precast concrete buildings in four countries (Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany), performed by ReCreate’s industrial partners as well as collaborators to harvest elements for reuse,...

The ReCreate project researches deconstruction and reuse of precast concrete elements, not originally designed for disassembly. ReCreate’s real-life pilots are a significant tool for achieving this goal. This report describes and illustrates ReCreate’s deconstruction pilots. Six real-life deconstructions of precast concrete buildings – one in Finl...

A quality management procedure for ensuring the safe reusability of deconstructed precast concrete elements is essential for more widespread and mainstreamed reuse. The quality of reclaimed elements should be maintained throughout the process, and any reductions thereof that may have occurred must be reliably identified. The ReCreate project resea...

A process for ensuring the properties of deconstructed precast concrete elements is essential for safe reuse. The properties are important for structural designers when designing a new building with reused elements and evaluating their structural capacity and service-life. The ReCreate project researches the process of reusing precast concrete ele...

Daylight, both outdoors and indoors, is essential for human well-being. However, daylight provision often faces challenges in various climates and locations, due to factors such as shortcomings in regulations, urban densification, deregulation or special exemptions, and the limitations of existing daylight and sunlight evaluation methods. To addres...

Several assessment methodologies have been proposed to measure the environmental impact of buildings. However, these methodologies require processing data which is often not available or requires a high integration effort. In this paper, we propose an ontology to describe the use and reuse of prefabricated components in buildings. This ontology des...

Different frameworks, sustainable design theories, and green building rating systems have been developed to reduce environmental impact on the planet. However, environmental challenges are growing due to climate change. The impact of the built environment on the planet requires an immediate transformation to achieve the sustainable development goal...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in adopting circular approaches in the built environment, specifically reusing existing buildings or their components in new projects. To achieve this, drawings, laser scanning, photogrammetry and other techniques are used to capture data on buildings and their materials. Although previous studies...

Tracking of building components can be instrumental in reuse for a Circular Economy. Tracking technologies (TT) for building components can be used to identify and access information for decision-making from deconstruction to design for reuse. Prior research has mainly been concerned with single technologies, limited life cycle applicability and ne...

Daylight has been a driver of urban and architectural form across climates. In the past century, metrics were introduced to describe performance such as minimum sunlight hours and the daylight factor. Means of assessment and related requirements were introduced in different contexts for sunlight/daylight. Some methods aimed to bridge the gap betwee...

This paper investigates novel computational methods for Regenerative Design by developing further on the European Daylight Standard EN 17037, to make it useful at both urban and architectural scales. Case studies are evaluated for sunlight, daylight and quality views. A computational method, compliant with EN 17037, is introduced for the evaluation...

Clear traces of urban gardening design and landscape architecture can be found during the second half of the 19th century in some of Albania's major cities but the very need for urban planning related to the landscape became evident only in the ’20 and ‘30s of the 20th century when the Albanian state was consolidated and cities began to grow. Durin...

After the transition, starting from the 1990s, for over a decade, Albania saw a boom in construction and rise of informal settlements in urban, suburban and rural areas. The landscape was seen as land which could be built upon or used for an economic activity or it resulted as an accessory of the building. The citizens are now more than ever consci...

In September 2016, the Albanian Parliament adopted the law on Albania's adherence to the European Landscape Convention. By adapting this law Albania is committed, among others, to training for specialists in landscape appraisal and operations; school and university courses which address the values attaching to landscapes and the issues raised by th...

Healthcare structures are supposed to protect and improve Public Health, but in the meanwhile they are highly energy-demanding and socially impactful structures, which cause negative side effects on the people’s health and on the environment. Building hospitals able to cope with the definition of Health as complete well-being and which can fit to t...