An Integrated Fuzzy Anp–qfd Approach for Green Building Assessment

Abstract

One of the major concerns in the construction industry is the sustainability of building projects. There are various trade-offs between functionality and design, which often lead to an issue of whether sustainably designed build­ings would meet stakeholder requirements. This paper provides a novel integrated structure for assessing green buildings realistically based on stakeholders’ fuzzy preferences. In particular, the paper uses the analytic network approach (ANP) to evaluate the correlation matrices in a quality function deployment (QFD) framework. A case study on green building index assessment in Malaysia illustrates the proposed integrated method. Sensitivity analysis validated the customer-stakeholder agreement towards the design of the green building. Cluster analysis was also used to group design specifi­cations prior to the analysis.

Sustainable Decision-Making in Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Technology

“…It has been noticed, that often alternative solutions and the results of numerical calculations have been validated by applying a MCDM method [91,[105][106][107]. In particular, a sensitivity analysis was usually applied as a complementary approach to check that the results were not influenced by the judgments of decision-makers [83,86,99,101,[105][106][107]109,111].…”

“…Fuzzy sets were the second most popular approach in the analyzed sample. It was applied for different assessments as a single method and combined with others, i.e., ANP [83,96], PROMETHEE [85], Sustainability 2018, 10, 14 13 of 21 AHP [94,95], VIKOR [103], and TOPSIS [104,109]. The latter have been also intensively applied as a single method [86,105,107] or in integration with others [93,104,106,109].…”

“…Arroyo et al [81,82] compared different decision-making approaches applicable for design decisions involving sustainability factors in architecture, engineering and the construction industry. Ignatius et al [83] proposed a novel integrated method for assessing green buildings realistically, based on stakeholders' fuzzy preferences. Hosseini et al [84] presented a method for assessing the sustainability of post-disaster temporary housing.…”

Critical Factors Influencing Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Buildings

“…Technology development, the emergence of new products/service [36,37,48,49] Emergence of low-carbon or low-energy materials [50,51] Higher requirement of design for adaptability and durability [51] Changing market requirements and customer needs [37,38,42,52] Policy instruments an legislation on SB, Energy codes and standards [31,41,43,53,54] Change in the competitive landscape, threat from competitors [35,42] Increased cost and innovation pressure [35] Environmental issues and awareness [42,43] Stakeholder involvement and collaboration [40,42,55] Economic needs [36,42] Social pressure (e.g., occupant wellbeing improvement and social reputation) [42,43,56] Change of industrial network and requirement [34,57] Energy security [49] Internal factor…”

MCDM Assessment of a Healthy and Safe Built Environment According to Sustainable Development Principles: A Practical Neighborhood Approach in Vilnius

“…Debates are common in the scientific literature about whether a balance between the economic, environmental and social development of the built environment and cultural diversity is attainable in practice. Multiple criteria analysis methods are, therefore, perfect for the analysis of the sustainable development of cities and their subdivisions [31][32][33][34]. Sustainable urban development can be seen as a yin-yang balance with contradicting goals [26][27][28].…”