This website has been set up with funds from the RIBA Research Trust with the primary aim of investigating the social and economic benefits to users of buildings making use of recyclable building technologies and appropriate applications for the technology. This section includes information on the RIBA Research Trust funded project 'Recyclable Buildings: Environmental, social and economic benefits of recyclable building technologies' as well as a selection of papers on other related research.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON DESIGNING FOR RECYCLING AND RECYCLED MATERIALS

• Further information on designing for dismantling and reuse and recycling can be found on the CIB 39 Task Group website hosted by Florida University (www.cce.ufl.edu/affiliations/cib/). This website contains papers published as part of the CIB 39 Task Group which facilitated the exchange of research experience among a network of academics who have been researching the general area of recyclable and dismantleable buildings. Aspects researched include historic analysis of reuse of buildings and building elements, the impact of recycling and reusing building elements on the embodied energy of a building, principles for assessing the ability of buildings to be recycled and principles of designing buildings to enable dismantling and recycling.

• The Housing Corporation has funded a recycled materials resource website that includes manufacuters of building products and materials with a high percentage of recycled content (www.ecoconstruction.org).