A new stakeholder opinion-based rapid sustainability assessment method (RSAM) for existing residential buildings

Karaca, Ferhat; Güney, Mert; Kumisbek, Aiganym; Kaskina, Dina; Tokbolat, Serik

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102155

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“…The most prominent examples include BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), and CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency), which have been widely used both in industry and academia ( Bernardi et al., 2017 ). Sustainability assessment tools consist of several categories (or criteria) with multiple indicators (or factors) that define sustainability within a framework ( Castro et al., 2017 ; Karaca, Guney, Kumisbek, et al., 2020 ; Mahmoud et al., 2019 ). These indicators can demonstrate a tool's scope.…”

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Stakeholder based weights of new sustainability indicators providing pandemic resilience for residential buildings

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Sustainable Cities and Society

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During COVID-19, the building and service characteristics of residential buildings turned out to be more critical due to lockdowns. The present research assesses the importance of new sustainability indicators for residential buildings in three categories (e.g., Health and Safety, Environmental Resources Consumption, and Comfort) that provide resilience for pandemic periods. The opinions of stakeholders on the identified indicators were collected and then analyzed. ‘Health and Safety’ category is found to be the most critical among the others. The prevention of virus propagation, mental health, and building air quality are three crucial indicators playing essential roles in the health and safety category. In more detail, innovative smart technologies, including touchless technologies, are identified as a priority in preventing virus propagation. Outdoor spaces and safe indoor places for socialization are weighted as essential in supporting the well-being and mental health of the resident. Finally, air filtration and segregation of medical waste indicators are considered critical in preventing the spread of viruses. There was a consensus among the local and international experts since they did not significantly report differing opinions for the majority of the indicators. However, there was a shift in experts’ opinions towards pandemic-oriented indicators compared to conventional sustainability indicators.

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Stakeholder based weights of new sustainability indicators providing pandemic resilience for residential buildings

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“…The content of the present paper is limited to the methodological details of building sustainability assessment indicator scoring, which is reproducible for any city. The remainder of the RSAM methodology along with indicator weights, which are more specific to a study area, are discussed in the associated article in full details [17] .…”

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“…All the indicators are scored in quantitative terms using a Ten Points Scaling (TPS) [17] . The primary goal of assigning points was to reveal implementations that were better or superior to the average or common applications within the context of a selected city.…”

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“…Each indicator rating is designed to support a rapid assessment based on resident opinion, and they should not be complex or very technical. Since this is the first evaluation in the literature, which is largely resident opinion-based, the indicator assessment methodologies and their suggested scores were developed from the ground up during targeted stakeholder workshops [17] , and they are not obtained from an earlier method.…”

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Indicator rating methodology for Rapid Sustainability Assessment Method (RSAM) for existing residential buildings using opinions of residents

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The presented method provides the details for how each indicator in “RSAM: A Rapid Sustainability Assessment Method” is scored using a residents’ opinions-based sustainability assessment procedure that is specifically designed for the assessment of existing residential buildings. Existing methods in the literature mostly suggest indicator scores in construction sustainability assessments using highly technical data and require a high level of engineering and management expertise. This makes them elaborate but labor-, time-, and cost-intensive; and thus, their use is more frequently favored in new projects. The presented method redefines a set of conventional environmental, social-functional, and economic indicators in a context which combines data from residents’ opinions (e.g. perceived quality of indoor temperature comfort level) and easy-to-obtain information (e.g. annual utility bills). All indicator ratings are represented within a 10-point scale, and their weights on the overall model are identified by stakeholders. RSAM provides a rapid and low-cost assessment for existing buildings which normally may not go through a conventional sustainability assessment due to resource limitations.

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“…The first tool was constructed based on distinguishing between the architectural, engineering and operational concerns, while the second tool was designed based on the characteristics of the design approach (either product or human-focused) and its inspiration (history vs. future driven). Karaca et al [5] developed a rapid sustainability assessment method using indicators and their relative weights attained from stakeholders, and an assessment approach based on the responses of buildings' occupants to measure the sustainability performance of residential buildings in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Li et al [6] provided a comprehensive analysis of various stakeholder groups associated with sustainable construction in China.…”

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Sustainability Indicator Selection by a Novel Triangular Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision-Making Approach in Highway Construction Projects

2021

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The construction industry has been criticized as being a non-sustainable industry that requires effective tools to monitor and improve its sustainability performance. The multiplicity of indicators of the three pillars of sustainability—economic, social, and environmental—complicates construction sustainability assessments for project managers. Therefore, prioritizing and selecting appropriate sustainability indicators (SIs) is essential prior to conducting a construction sustainability assessment. The main purpose of this research is to select the most appropriate set of SIs to address all three pillars of highway sustainability by a new group decision-making approach. The proposed approach accounts for risk attitudes of experts and entropy measures under a triangular intuitionistic fuzzy (TIF) environment, to handle the inherent uncertainty and vagueness that is present throughout the evaluation process. Furthermore, new separation measures and ranking scores are introduced to distinguish the preference order of SIs. Eventually, the approach is implemented in a case study of highway construction projects and the applicability of the approach is examined. To investigate the stability and validity of computational results, a sensitivity analysis is carried out and a comparison is made between the obtained ranking outcomes and the traditional decision-making methods.

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A new stakeholder opinion-based rapid sustainability assessment method (RSAM) for existing residential buildings

Cited by 31 publications

References 36 publications

Stakeholder based weights of new sustainability indicators providing pandemic resilience for residential buildings

Stakeholder based weights of new sustainability indicators providing pandemic resilience for residential buildings

Indicator rating methodology for Rapid Sustainability Assessment Method (RSAM) for existing residential buildings using opinions of residents

Sustainability Indicator Selection by a Novel Triangular Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision-Making Approach in Highway Construction Projects

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