Synopsis:

Shane Hastie looks at the crossover between adaptive reuse in the built world with software development. Although he singles out adaptive reuse as a civil engineering aspect (it’s far broader as it includes architects, planners, and developers), he makes a good point that adaptive reuse is used in software engineering. The ultimate message is that adaptive reuse actually exists all around us. He however only discusses the definition of adaptive reuse but does not go into any detail regarding the elements and how they cross over. He seems to focus on how players in a real estate development project must “adapt” to changing requirements and constraints during the building process, but that is not adaptive reuse. His underlying concept however is an intriguing one. It may be interesting to really seem how “adaptive reuse” exists in other field rather than just the built environment.