Refurbishment

Refurbishment is the topic of this week. After going through the lecture, I found that local people prefer refurbishment instead of demolish and rebuild . This incident had shown that local people had high sustainable awareness and tend to reduce the environment impact and maintain the original outlook of the building. 

In my country, Malaysia, people prefer to demolish and rebuilt rather than refurbishment, one of the main reason is people emphasized on the profitability of business. The main issue that deciding refurbishment or demolish and rebuild is the current condition of the building. A old building with lots of defect required lot of sources to refurbish and not mention about high safety and health risk. However, in my opinion, some historical building should be greatly encouraged to refurbish to lengthen the lasting period. Historical building used to memorial our ancestor and culture and also act as an attractive point in the city. In this lecture, I learnt the factors to be considered for making  decision of refurbishment or demolish and rebuild.