Från hus till hus i en återbruksprocess -Potentialen för återbruk som materiell och meningsskapande resurs i nybyggnation.

Abstract

The general building sector has, since time of industry, left the Nordic building tradition to build to be able to repair, upgrade and move buildings, or parts of buildings. A large amount of building waste comes from the general building sector. The essay investigates an experimental housing in Svartlamon, Trondheim, built of reused and recyclable building materials. The theoretical point of departure actor network theory (ANT), helps to analyze the organization, with people and non-people actors behind the recycling process in Svartlamon. The goal is also to understand the potential for reuse of building material and the circulation of building fragments in order to be able to preserve and develop the cultural heritage and drive cultural heritage processes. An individual stakeholder and self-builder from Svartlamon help to describe the steps and motives behind the recycling process, material handling, opportunities and problem-forming in the process, as well as individual motives for method selection. The recycled materials have proven to be able to create historical and cultural significance and generated a different view on building materials as something more long lasting according to the self-builders in Svartlamon. Using older building materials can contribute to bringing together a historical continuity and pursue a cultural heritage process within its context. There is reason to relate the individual initiative of the recycling process within the key actors' driving forces for a circular material and resource management in a larger context. In order to change overall production and consumption patterns, the Swedish Government have introduced general objectives for more suitable handling of resources, for a better recycling model and believes that it must be incorporated in politics. The Swedish Naturvårdsverket has taken measures and introduced control of building waste, with the goal to reach a more sustainable and circular trade of building parts, within the general building sector. Using recycled building materials has proved extra time consuming and would need to be more rational if the method would be integrated into a conventional commercial building sector. With directives from the central actors with impact in the recycling processes question, and with visible ongoing recycling processes at individual level, is the expectation that both the pressure and experience from the different levels can generate recycling processes in other building- and culture heritage processes further.