Comparative analysis of environmental performance of an office building using BREEAM and GBL

Cheng, W. S.; Sodagar, Behzad; Sun, Fuchun

doi:10.2495/sdp-v12-n3-528-540

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“…Multi-criteria evaluation systems are becoming increasingly popular in developed countries, and are especially used in office [100], administration [101], and retail buildings [102], as well as in housing projects [19,53,75]. Clearly, this is a result of the implementation of sustainability policies in international corporations, and also the need to reduce expenditure.…”

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Evaluation of the Quality of the Housing Environment Using Multi-Criteria Analysis That Includes Energy Efficiency: A Review

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The quality of the housing environment (HE) is an important issue that has a direct impact on the life of inhabitants. Aiming for quality in residential architecture begins with a well-designed HE, with the designing process being a value that is difficult to evaluate. Nowadays, a well-designed HE takes into account the energy efficiency of a building. An appropriate degree of thermal comfort, which is required by inhabitants, needs to be considered at the design stage. Designers can use building certification programs and multi-criteria analysis to motivate investors to construct buildings in accordance with energy efficiency requirements. These systems respond to the needs of energy efficiency, thermal comfort, sustainable heating, and ventilation. Defining ways and methods to evaluate quality in architectural projects will allow the value of the HE to be improved. For this purpose, a multi-criteria analysis of five systems that can be used to evaluate HE quality and energy efficiency in a temperate climate was conducted: (1) Building For Life 12, (2) Home Quality Mark, (3) Housing Quality Indicators, (4) Système D’évaluation De Logements (Sel), and (5) NF Habitat-NF Habitat HQE. This analysis concerned information about the systems, their applicability in practice, and the applied assessment measures. The article shows that the quality of the HE consists of specific factors that can be distinguished and indicated by evaluation systems. As a result of the carried out assessment of the housing environment, 13 original categories of building assessment criteria were defined. The results of the conducted analysis indicated that it is possible to: (i) identify factors for the improvement of HE quality; (ii) prepare objective systems for the measurement of the HE; and (iii) use such systems in practice, e.g., in the design industry, real estates, and public administration. Moreover, the systems can be used in legal regulations for updating urban policies.

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Evaluation of the Quality of the Housing Environment Using Multi-Criteria Analysis That Includes Energy Efficiency: A Review

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“…In order to extend knowledge and support sustainability in construction projects, some systems have been developed for the evaluation of the environmental performance of buildings [14], like the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) or the BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method). These approaches are treated as criteria-based tools [15], however, the whole building life cycle assessment (LCA) can be applied before obtaining such certificates [16]. On the other hand, some researchers [17,18] introduced the implementation of lean construction in sustainable construction projects.…”

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Who Risks and Wins?—Simulated Cost Variance in Sustainable Construction Projects

Górecki

Díaz‐Madroñero

2020

Sustainability

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More and more construction projects are closed before they ever start. Among the most significant reasons for project failures is cost risk. Construction companies have many problems with reliable cost management. Rising demands of the key market players insist on making construction projects more sustainable according to the simultaneous improvement of the economic, environmental and social responsiveness dimensions. In order to investigate these problems, a four-phase research methodology has been followed consisting of: (1) literature review to identify research trends and gaps, (2) survey to construction experts to detect their subjective perspectives about risk costs and analyse the corresponding costs structure for the investment in sustainable projects, (3) simulations based on Monte Carlo simulation with an author’s methodology for calculating the cost risk with an additional statistical analysis, (4) ending questionnaire to obtain the final feedback from the experts and the validation of obtained results. A contribution to the development of knowledge about cost risk is the observation that the changing probability distributions of individual cost-generating components may include both economic as well as technological and organizational aspects. Thus, with the proposed approach, often complex, global challenges of sustainable construction projects can be tackled in an accessible way.

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“…Lately, it has been discussed that sustainable ways of conducting construction processes are inevitable. Therefore, more and more theoreticians and professionals concentrate on new concepts like environment-focused certifications of buildings including the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) [ 11 ] or the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) [ 12 ], the ISO 14000 and its relevance to the construction industry, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) [ 13 , 14 ], Life Cycle Costing Analysis (LCCA) [ 15 ], cradle-to-cradle (C2C) approach [ 16 , 17 ], design for deconstruction (DfD) [ 18 , 19 ], green labels [ 20 ] or Circular Economy (CE) [ 21 – 23 ]. All these ideas seem quite complicated, but they all have something in common—they relate to mechanisms that are favourable, not harmful to the environment, and related to construction projects.…”

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Leadership models in era of new technological challenges in construction projects

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The building sector is under the significant influence of emerging technologies. Structures shape the environment and “consume” natural resources throughout their life cycle. They “live” many years after the construction which implies a dependence on some generations of supporting technologies. They can be useful in the subsequent phases: design, construction, maintenance and demolition. They may refer to main processes (construction production) as well as to concurrent processes (management, accountancy, logistics etc.). Computers, automated tools and machines or other intelligent devices seem to be inevitable in the 21st century. Therefore, contractors of construction projects should be sensitive to these issues. Based on literature studies, the article revealed that knowledge management in a construction company should primarily rely on the corporate culture that manifests a preference for computer-aided methods. This part was supplemented by a questionnaire technique and a statistical analysis of the results. It was concluded that the path to technological maturity of the construction company is a continual process. Consistency in this pursuit enables effective promotion of innovative technologies in the construction company. The research allowed us to draw three explicit phases: lack of experience, euphoria, and experience in becoming a technologically matured enterprise.

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Comparative analysis of environmental performance of an office building using BREEAM and GBL

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Evaluation of the Quality of the Housing Environment Using Multi-Criteria Analysis That Includes Energy Efficiency: A Review

Evaluation of the Quality of the Housing Environment Using Multi-Criteria Analysis That Includes Energy Efficiency: A Review

Who Risks and Wins?—Simulated Cost Variance in Sustainable Construction Projects

Leadership models in era of new technological challenges in construction projects

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