Demolition across UK cities could be about to rise dramatically according to comments made by Paul Morrell, the Government's chief construction advisor at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.
The reason is that the Government has a bit of a dilemma to solve. In order to achieve tough new carbon emission targets (an 80% reduction by 2050) many of the buildings from the 60s and 70s need to be modified to cut down on their energy use. However, some of those building can't improve enough and therefore demolition and rebuilding is the only course of action to take.
Morrell commented to The Times:
"In the Sixties, everything was built cheaper, faster and nastier. If you are going to try to fix buildings, then really you won’t have too many problems with anything built earlier than the Fifties or after the Eighties.
Although you can do some things to buildings from the Sixties and Seventies, like replacing the roofs, there are probably some places that need to come down entirely.
The buildings that pose the most difficulties are semi-industrialised, highly inefficient, badly insulated and so ugly that they are not worth refurbishing."
Source: Times Online with thanks to Demolition News
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