Hi every one,
I was wondering if anyone comes across any statistical data in the literature about the average lifespan of different building types (retail, residential, commercial, etc)?
Thank you in advance!
Mehdi
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The most commonly cited source that I have seen comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (1925 - 1997).
Kapur et al 2008 also summarizes the BEA data nicely in Table 1:
There’s a good bit of research out there from the Industrial Ecology perspective. Global values were summarized by Deetman et al. 2020 (See Table S.1. in the supplementary information)
Hope that helps!
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Sound great- thanks really for your help!
All the best,
Mehdi
This was the most recent document I found for residential construction:
Aktas, C., & Bilec, M. (2012). Impact of lifetime on US residential building LCA results. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment , 337-349.
It shows the average lifespan of a home in the US is 61 years.
Hi,
an interesting European study is also the following:
Østergaard, N., Thorsted, L., Miraglia, S., Birkved, M., Rasmussen, F., Birgisdóttir, H., Kalbar, P. and Georgiadis, S., 2018. Data Driven Quantification of the Temporal Scope of Building LCAs. Procedia CIRP , 69, pp.224-229.
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Thanks for sharing this.