No one likes the idea of living or working in buildings with hazardous materials. In Reburg only healthy buildings are used: there are no hazardous emissions originating from interior or exterior materials and a sound ventilation system, adapted to the use of the building, is always installed. Even the old buildings have been ‘decontaminated’ from materials not meeting (human and ecosystem) health regulations. This was not easy, because only in the last decades we’ve increasingly becoming aware of the effect of hazardous substances on human and ecosystems health.
Because in Reburg the composition of new as well as old buildings has been digitised thanks to the introduction of materials passports and building information management, we know exactly which building materials have to be taken out of the building stock and replaced by non-hazardous alternatives. Even more, in some building cases, such as in the HealthyHill Estate, materials actively purifying the indoor air have been used.
Signals of change
