“If we can make use of and adapt existing building and infrastructure stock, we save new carbon and resources,” Dr Ness says.

Dr Ness says he was spurred on to write the book about overbuilding when, in 2015, the Adelaide City Council and State Government together claimed that emissions had declined even though city office stock had grown substantially.

Source: Recycling building parts into new ones will save us overbuilding – UniSA professor | Adelaide Now