Exploring the Common Ground of Sustainability and Resilience in the Building Sector: A Systematic Literature Review and Analysis of Building Rating Systems

Licia Felicioni (), Antonín Lupíšek and Jacopo Gaspari
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Licia Felicioni: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thákurova 2077/7, 16629 Prague, Czech Republic
Antonín Lupíšek: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thákurova 2077/7, 16629 Prague, Czech Republic
Jacopo Gaspari: Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Via Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Over the last ten years, due to the increase in frequency and severity of climate change effects, resilience in buildings has become a growing topic in the current global discussion on climate change adaptation. Designing both sustainable and resilient constructions would help to face such effects; however, sustainability and resilience in design have been mostly treated separately so far. Since sustainability has been considered more than resilience, paying deeper attention to the latter is indispensable to reducing building vulnerability. The purpose of this article is to examine the commonalities between the sustainability and resilience of buildings using two different approaches: (i) a systematic literature review, taking into consideration a 10-year period for selecting records, and (ii) an analysis of five green building rating systems and five resilience rating systems and guidelines selected according to their popularity and number of certified buildings. There is an overlap in some indicators between the two domains at the building level, as shown by the results from both paths. These aspects could assist in considering sustainability and resilience from the very beginning of the design process. This will ensure that buildings may be designed more effectively by considering and enhancing the synergies between the two domains. This paper targets potential stakeholders who may be interested in including such an integrated implementation in their designs.

Keywords: sustainability; resilience; buildings; rating systems; literature review; commonalities; building design; GBRSs; RRSs; clustering process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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