Revised Version of AIJ “Recommendations for Demolition Work Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures”
By N. Yuasa, A. Koyama, S. Fujimoto, Y. Dosho, T. Asami, K. Shimada and Y. Kunieda
Concrete Journal, Vol.62, No.12, Dec. 2024
- Synopsis
- In March of this year, the Architectural Institute of Japan established the “Recommendations for Demolition Work Reinforced Concrete and Steel Structures”. It is positioned as a revision of the “Recommendations for Demolition Work Reinforced Concrete Buildings” published in 1998. The social landscape has changed since the Recommendations were first published, with the introduction of the Building Recycling Act in 2000 and guidelines for the proper handling and disposal of asbestos, among other things. As a result, the Recommendations no longer reflected existing laws and practices. With the revision of the Construction Business Act in 2014, “Demolition Work” was newly established as a construction work related category in 2016, and the government and industry are working to explore and establish a new framework for such work. Against this backdrop, the present revision marks the first update of the Recommendations in a quartercentury. This paper outlines the main revisions and touches on future tasks.
- Keywords:
- Demolition work, Architectural Institute of Japan, Recommendations, Reinforced concrete structure, Steel structure
