Satu Huuhka
Biographic Data
| ID | 232372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Satu Huuhka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Satu |
| FAMILY NAME | Huuhka |
| SIGNATURE | HUUHKA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2386-3787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Environmental impacts of reclaimed bricks: Comparing different deconstruction methods
Take-back and reuse schemes of bricks reclaimed from end-of-life buildings could reduce the environmental impacts of the brick industry. This study assesses the practical viability and environmental impacts of reclaiming fired perforated clay bricks bonded with cement-based mortar from a brick veneer. The life-cycle assessment is executed according to European Standard EN 15804 across 19 environmental impact categories using empirical Finnish cas…
Why is adaptable housing not mainstream? Perspectives of different stakeholders in Finland
In housing, ‘adaptability’ denotes the capacity of the dwelling to accommodate residents’ changing needs. Adaptable housing was first put forward in the early 20th century and has been debated ever since. Recently, adaptability has also been recognised as a focal contributor to buildings’ sustainability and circular economy. Nevertheless, adaptable housing is rarely built. This paper studies what hinders the mainstreaming of adaptable housing in …
Towards urban LCA: Examining densification alternatives for a residential neighbourhood
This paper explores the environmental impacts of retaining or replacing buildings by extending the consequential replacement framework (CRF) for life-cycle assessment (LCA) from individual buildings towards the urban scale. It addresses a gap in previous studies by examining the broader consequences of building-level retention or replacement decisions in the built environment, namely greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from associated infrastructure c…
Evaluating past and future building operational emissions: Improved method
A simple method is presented to improve the evaluation of past and/or future CO2 emissions of heating and/or cooling a building. The degree-day—energy emission coefficient (DD-EEC) method relies on two established techniques. It starts with a building’s known annual heating and/or cooling energy consumption. Degree-days are employed to estimate the consumption in other years, unveiling how climate warming influences the annual energy need for hea…
How changes in urban morphology translate into urban metabolisms of building stocks: A framework for spatiotemporal material flow analysis and a case study
Anthropogenic stocks are increasingly seen as potential reserves for secondary resources, which has led to a rapid development in research of urban metabolic systems. With regard to buildings and their associated material stocks and flows, one of the most critical shortcomings in the state-of-the-art is the knowledge gap for drivers, dynamics, patterns and linkages that affect the urban metabolism. This paper is premised on the idea that urban pl…
Understanding demolition
Highlights This special issue explores when, why and how demolition occurs with the aim to understand its environmental, socio-economic and cultural drivers, and consequences in policy and practice alike. Based on previous research, demolition is known to have many adverse effects. The potential for avoiding building replacement (demolition and subsequent new build) and favouring retention is also in this special issue’s interest. The papers in t…
Renovate or replace? Consequential replacement LCA framework for buildings
Is it more environmentally friendly to replace an existing building with a new one or to renovate the existing property? This paper addresses how to frame and evaluate this question. Although several previous studies exist, their methods lack a harmonised set of practice. A new framework is introduced that adopts the concept of consequential replacement framework (CRF) for life cycle assessment (LCA) which had previously been applied to vehicles.…
Residents’ views on adaptable housing: A virtual reality-based study
Housing adaptability is often said to be a characteristic that benefits the residents. But is there an actual demand from residents? This study asks whether and what kind of value residents place on adaptable housing. The research, situated in Finland, combines interviews involving seven varied households together with their experiences of adaptable flats in a 3D CAVE immersive virtual reality environment. The participants were first interviewed …
Stocks and flows of buildings: Analysis of existing, demolished, and constructed buildings in Tampere, Finland, 2000–2018
Research has identified cities as potential urban mines for recovering secondary construction materials. Studies typically focus on stocks or flows of bulk materials on high abstraction levels. To enable a shift of focus toward higher levels of circular economy, such as waste minimization, there is a need for a more detailed understanding of the dynamics that contribute to the waste flows, building replacement in particular. This paper examines t…
Barriers to implementing adaptable housing: Architects’ perceptions in Finland and Denmark
Adaptability is one key aspect in making housing more sustainable. One major approach to adaptability is internal transformability of buildings, i.e. the possibility to make modifications to the spaces and their equipment within the existing building envelope. This aspect is often taken into consideration in the design and implementation of office buildings. However, in housing the situation is different, and internal transformability is very sel…
From obscurity to heritage: Canonisation of the Nordic Wooden Town
Art historian Juan Pablo Bonta has presented a nine-step model for analysing how the interpretation of architectural oeuvres becomes canonised. We suggest that in terms of the built heritage, canonisation and heritagisation are essentially the same process, so Bonta’s model can be used for analysing heritagisation processes. This article testifies to this assumption by examining how the interpretation of historic Nordic wooden towns became stabil…
Building conservation and the circular economy: A theoretical consideration
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relation between building conservation and circular economy (CE), which are often erroneously seen as inherently contradictory to one another. Design/methodology/approach The work draws from a comparative approach. The paper reviews a body of literature on architectural conservation and CE to establish an understanding on the state-of-the-art for both disciplines separately. Then, the relation b…
Spolia revisited and extended: The potential for contemporary architecture
In the fields of archaeology, art history and history, spolia have traditionally been studied as phenomena of the past. Today, the reuse of salvaged construction components and materials is primarily justified by its economic and ecological benefits, while its architectural and experiential qualities are much less discussed, if at all. Therefore, this article has two focuses, one more conceptual, and the other, more practical. Firstly, the articl…
Barriers to implementing adaptable housing: Architects’ perceptions in Finland and Denmark
Adaptability is one key aspect in making housing more sustainable. One major approach to adaptability is internal transformability of buildings, i.e. the possibility to make modifications to the spaces and their equipment within the existing building envelope. This aspect is often taken into consideration in the design and implementation of office buildings. However, in housing the situation is different, and internal transformability is very sel…
Residents’ views on adaptable housing: A virtual reality-based study
Housing adaptability is often said to be a characteristic that benefits the residents. But is there an actual demand from residents? This study asks whether and what kind of value residents place on adaptable housing. The research, situated in Finland, combines interviews involving seven varied households together with their experiences of adaptable flats in a 3D CAVE immersive virtual reality environment. The participants were first interviewed …
Spolia revisited and extended: The potential for contemporary architecture
In the fields of archaeology, art history and history, spolia have traditionally been studied as phenomena of the past. Today, the reuse of salvaged construction components and materials is primarily justified by its economic and ecological benefits, while its architectural and experiential qualities are much less discussed, if at all. Therefore, this article has two focuses, one more conceptual, and the other, more practical. Firstly, the articl…
Evaluating past and future building operational emissions: Improved method
A simple method is presented to improve the evaluation of past and/or future CO2 emissions of heating and/or cooling a building. The degree-day—energy emission coefficient (DD-EEC) method relies on two established techniques. It starts with a building’s known annual heating and/or cooling energy consumption. Degree-days are employed to estimate the consumption in other years, unveiling how climate warming influences the annual energy need for hea…
Spolia revisited and extended: The potential for contemporary architecture
In the fields of archaeology, art history and history, spolia have traditionally been studied as phenomena of the past. Today, the reuse of salvaged construction components and materials is primarily justified by its economic and ecological benefits, while its architectural and experiential qualities are much less discussed, if at all. Therefore, this article has two focuses, one more conceptual, and the other, more practical. Firstly, the articl…
Building conservation and the circular economy: A theoretical consideration
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relation between building conservation and circular economy (CE), which are often erroneously seen as inherently contradictory to one another. Design/methodology/approach The work draws from a comparative approach. The paper reviews a body of literature on architectural conservation and CE to establish an understanding on the state-of-the-art for both disciplines separately. Then, the relation b…
From obscurity to heritage: Canonisation of the Nordic Wooden Town
Art historian Juan Pablo Bonta has presented a nine-step model for analysing how the interpretation of architectural oeuvres becomes canonised. We suggest that in terms of the built heritage, canonisation and heritagisation are essentially the same process, so Bonta’s model can be used for analysing heritagisation processes. This article testifies to this assumption by examining how the interpretation of historic Nordic wooden towns became stabil…
Stocks and flows of buildings: Analysis of existing, demolished, and constructed buildings in Tampere, Finland, 2000–2018
Research has identified cities as potential urban mines for recovering secondary construction materials. Studies typically focus on stocks or flows of bulk materials on high abstraction levels. To enable a shift of focus toward higher levels of circular economy, such as waste minimization, there is a need for a more detailed understanding of the dynamics that contribute to the waste flows, building replacement in particular. This paper examines t…
Barriers to implementing adaptable housing: Architects’ perceptions in Finland and Denmark
Adaptability is one key aspect in making housing more sustainable. One major approach to adaptability is internal transformability of buildings, i.e. the possibility to make modifications to the spaces and their equipment within the existing building envelope. This aspect is often taken into consideration in the design and implementation of office buildings. However, in housing the situation is different, and internal transformability is very sel…
Residents’ views on adaptable housing: A virtual reality-based study
Housing adaptability is often said to be a characteristic that benefits the residents. But is there an actual demand from residents? This study asks whether and what kind of value residents place on adaptable housing. The research, situated in Finland, combines interviews involving seven varied households together with their experiences of adaptable flats in a 3D CAVE immersive virtual reality environment. The participants were first interviewed …
How changes in urban morphology translate into urban metabolisms of building stocks: A framework for spatiotemporal material flow analysis and a case study
Anthropogenic stocks are increasingly seen as potential reserves for secondary resources, which has led to a rapid development in research of urban metabolic systems. With regard to buildings and their associated material stocks and flows, one of the most critical shortcomings in the state-of-the-art is the knowledge gap for drivers, dynamics, patterns and linkages that affect the urban metabolism. This paper is premised on the idea that urban pl…
Understanding demolition
Highlights This special issue explores when, why and how demolition occurs with the aim to understand its environmental, socio-economic and cultural drivers, and consequences in policy and practice alike. Based on previous research, demolition is known to have many adverse effects. The potential for avoiding building replacement (demolition and subsequent new build) and favouring retention is also in this special issue’s interest. The papers in t…
Renovate or replace? Consequential replacement LCA framework for buildings
Is it more environmentally friendly to replace an existing building with a new one or to renovate the existing property? This paper addresses how to frame and evaluate this question. Although several previous studies exist, their methods lack a harmonised set of practice. A new framework is introduced that adopts the concept of consequential replacement framework (CRF) for life cycle assessment (LCA) which had previously been applied to vehicles.…
Towards urban LCA: Examining densification alternatives for a residential neighbourhood
This paper explores the environmental impacts of retaining or replacing buildings by extending the consequential replacement framework (CRF) for life-cycle assessment (LCA) from individual buildings towards the urban scale. It addresses a gap in previous studies by examining the broader consequences of building-level retention or replacement decisions in the built environment, namely greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from associated infrastructure c…
Evaluating past and future building operational emissions: Improved method
A simple method is presented to improve the evaluation of past and/or future CO2 emissions of heating and/or cooling a building. The degree-day—energy emission coefficient (DD-EEC) method relies on two established techniques. It starts with a building’s known annual heating and/or cooling energy consumption. Degree-days are employed to estimate the consumption in other years, unveiling how climate warming influences the annual energy need for hea…
Environmental impacts of reclaimed bricks: Comparing different deconstruction methods
Take-back and reuse schemes of bricks reclaimed from end-of-life buildings could reduce the environmental impacts of the brick industry. This study assesses the practical viability and environmental impacts of reclaiming fired perforated clay bricks bonded with cement-based mortar from a brick veneer. The life-cycle assessment is executed according to European Standard EN 15804 across 19 environmental impact categories using empirical Finnish cas…
Why is adaptable housing not mainstream? Perspectives of different stakeholders in Finland
In housing, ‘adaptability’ denotes the capacity of the dwelling to accommodate residents’ changing needs. Adaptable housing was first put forward in the early 20th century and has been debated ever since. Recently, adaptability has also been recognised as a focal contributor to buildings’ sustainability and circular economy. Nevertheless, adaptable housing is rarely built. This paper studies what hinders the mainstreaming of adaptable housing in …
Engineering (11 works) · Architectural engineering (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (6 works) · Civil engineering (5 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works)