Adaptive Reuse, Reduce and Monitoring Systems in Structural Engineering

A review study of how adaptive ‘reuse’ and ‘reduce’ will help to bring the sustainable environmental conditions for the current and future generation from the civil engineering—stability and safety point of view, is attempted in this paper. Further using both these different approaches, the knowledge of carbon footprint, embodied energy of the material that forms the core of the structure are understood and judiciously used for its design. The type of methods which are attempted to bring this adaptive reuse and reduce principles of sustainability in the real-life situation through the case study are reviewed. The structural health monitoring system is used to ascertain the standards and procedures that can also help to achieve sustainability to a substantial level is identified. The various types of the structural monitoring system and the various types of algorithms followed to bring the necessary study data for analysis are understood from various papers written already. The use of structural monitoring systems can also facilitate in averting the structural adversity in the infrastructure and buildings. It is understood that the future of civil engineering will have the guidelines and procedures in integrating SHM into the mainstream practice, thereby achieving the requisite sustainable principles for a promising future.