The rising architecture approach of adaptive reuse continues to offer fresh ways to breathe new life into historic structures while delivering development that is economically, socially and environmentally responsible. 

In the pursuit of sustainable development, communities have much to gain from adaptively reusing historic buildings. Bypassing the wasteful process of demolition and reconstruction alone is just one of the huge environmental benefits of adaptive reuse.

Those environmental benefits, combined with energy savings and the social advantage of recycling a valued heritage place, make the adaptive reuse of historic buildings an essential component of sustainable development.