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Title Sustainability Assessment of Buildings Indicators
ID_Doc 17371
Authors Rodrigues, L; Delgado, JMPQ; Mendes, A; Lima, AGB; Guimaraes, AS
Title Sustainability Assessment of Buildings Indicators
Year 2023
Published Sustainability, 15, 4
DOI 10.3390/su15043403
Abstract The building sector is responsible for a high environmental impact, namely during construction, maintenance, demolition, and lifetime. It is then urgent to develop tools for guiding all stockholders to make buildings more sustainable. In order to make the sustainability assessment of a building, it is necessary to make a survey of the most appropriate parameters for this analysis and organize them hierarchically. The first sustainability certification rating tools were developed in the 90 ' s of the last century, namely Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM), which allow for the quantitative sustainability assessment of different types of buildings. After the first developments, many authors joined in the endeavor of producing easier-to-use and more accurate sustainability assessment systems using sustainability indicators and their respective weights. This work provides a rational pathway throughout the relevant literature on sustainability indicators, comparing indicators proposed by different authors and different sustainability certification systems.
Author Keywords green buildings; rating systems; sustainability assessment systems; sustainable building construction; sustainability certification tools; sustainability indicators
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000940575300001
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/4/3403/pdf?version=1676363601
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