For Affordable Housing, the Right Retrofit Team is Key to Overcoming Adaptive Reuse Challenges

In a recent article for Retrofit Magazine, TAT Associate Phil Renzi shares the challenges and opportunities architects face during the design and construction process of affordable-housing developments utilizing an adaptive-reuse approach.

By Phil Renzi, Associate

Housing leaders recognize that addressing our nationwide shortage requires every resource and approach in the book, from dramatically accelerating new multifamily construction to doubling down on adaptive reuse and retrofitting. Pursuing the adaptive-reuse path can appear simpler: After all, retrofitting a structure that already exists offers the potential to save time and money, not to mention the environmental benefits of embodied carbon reduction. And yet especially when it comes to the affordable-housing sector, the reality is that adaptive reuse projects can actually be more complicated and challenging to realize than new construction—making the right team an essential starting point for success.

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Phil Renzi is an associate at The Architectural Team (TAT) Inc., an award-winning architecture, interiors, and planning firm based in Chelsea, Mass.