INDUSTRIALIZED, FLEXIBLE AND DEMOUNTABLE BUILDING SYSTEMS QUALITY, ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABILITY

Industrialised / Flexible / Demountable (IFD) Building Systems stand as key methods to achieve quality, economy and full sustainability in architecture: INDUSTRIALISED, to amortise a process capable of simplifying the production and reaching a high level of quality; FLEXIBLE, to accommodate functional changes over time and in the space without destroying partitions or/and exterior walls; and DEMOUNTABLE, to meet the needs for reconfiguration or even relocation without demolition. Factory-made components can easily incorporate the precise detailing required for an adaptable construction, as proposed by a series of building systems presently or prospectively available worldwide and as demonstrated by some prototypes already operational notably in the Netherlands and in Japan.