Sustainability Assessment of Buildings Indicators

Leonardo Rodrigues, João M. P. Q. Delgado (), Adélio Mendes, António G. B. Lima and Ana S. Guimarães
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Leonardo Rodrigues: ALiCE-Associate Laboratory for Innovation in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
João M. P. Q. Delgado: CONSTRUCT-LFC, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Adélio Mendes: ALiCE-Associate Laboratory for Innovation in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
António G. B. Lima: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso 882, Campina Grande 58429900, PB, Brazil
Ana S. Guimarães: CONSTRUCT-LFC, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-14

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.

Keywords: green buildings; rating systems; sustainability assessment systems; sustainable building construction; sustainability certification tools; sustainability indicators (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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