Choosing the most sustainable deconstruction strategy requires assessment of the effects of various contributing
factors including prices and energy embodiment of the materials and components, the travelling distances, energy
use and cost associated with the recycling processes, inflation rate, costs of designing the components for
reuse-ability, costs of disassembly and re-assembly. Furthermore, a typical building comprises thousands of different
componentswith various characteristicswhich may affect their reusability and recyclability. These lead to
an enormous amount of information that needs to be stored and made available for analysis prior to and during
the deconstruction stage. The present study proposes a framework for evaluating and comparing the effects of
various alternative deconstruction strategies on cost, energy use and carbon footprint of construction using the
information provided by a typical building information model. The results of a case study are presented to illustrate
the potential applications of the proposed method.