Stadia

[Waterways]

The single largest contributor (including energy in life time useage) to carbon footprint is the energy used in the creation of the building materials and in the building operations themselves. It is thus very signficantly greener to recycle old buildings for new use rather than to demolish them, deal with waste and rebuild.



and before you say it WW, I haven't made this up. I do know what I am talking about and I have no vested interest. It's what you might call a fact.

You are on about the energy life cycle - embedded energy. The same can be said for all products. But right now anything that uses less energy is a good thing, for clearly obvious reasons.