Identification of Social Sustainability Criteria in Building Energy Retrofit Projects

Jafari, Amirhosein; Valentin, Vanessa; Bogus, Susan M.

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001610

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“…Additionally, it affects energy consumption levels [49]. The satisfaction of buildings' occupants regarding health and comfort has a social sustainability impact [50,51].…”

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Assessment of Green Building Materials’ Attributes to Achieve Sustainable Building Façades Using AHP

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The need to enhance the performance of building façades and mitigate adverse environmental impacts has promoted the hypothesis of integrating green materials towards sustainable buildings. Façade designers tend to select building materials based on their green characteristics (origin) or green performance; however, this study highlights the importance of integrating both into the decision process. The main objective is to develop a new assessment process for selecting green building façade materials based on green performance and green originality. Furthermore, the evaluation framework considers four green building rating systems as a reference to allocate credits for the relevant criteria. Applying the proposed criteria in this study helps maximize the points for accreditation when incorporating green building materials in building façades. Moreover, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to assign the proposed criteria’s weighting importance based on the four rating systems’ average points. After that, performing sensitivity analysis to identify each criterion’s influence is conducted. The study concluded that involving minimum levels of adverse impacts is the preferable criteria regarding the green origin concept. As for the green performance, promoting the performance of indoor air quality is the most favorable selection criteria.

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“…Additionally, it affects energy consumption levels [49]. The satisfaction of buildings' occupants regarding health and comfort has a social sustainability impact [50,51].…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessment of Green Building Materials’ Attributes to Achieve Sustainable Building Façades Using AHP

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“…Doğal aydınlatma kullanımını arttırılarak veya iyileştirilmiş yapay aydınlatma kullanılarak, bina sakinlerinin yorgunluğunu azaltılabilir ve dolayısıyla çalışma ortamlarında üretkenlik ve verimlilik arttırılabilir. Ayrıca, bina mekanik sistemlerini yükseltilerek bina sakinlerinin ve toplumun gürültüye maruziyeti azaltılabilir (Jafari, Valentin ve Bogus, 2019).…”

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Çevreye Duyarlı Mimarlık Arayışında İnsan ve Doğa ile Uyumlu Yapı Üretme Süreci

Emekci¹

2021

Mimarlık Bilimleri Ve Uygulamaları Dergisi (MBUD)

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İnsan ve doğa sürekli etkileşim içerisindedir. Bu etkileşim ilk çağlarda, insanın yaşamını devam ettirebilme kaygısından ibaretken, insan nüfusunun hızla çoğalmasıyla ve sanayileşmeyle insanın doğa üzerinde kurmaya başladığı tek yönlü baskın ilişki sonucunda yerini çevre sorunlarına ve çevresel bozulmaya bırakmıştır. Doğaya zarar vermenin aslında kendisine zarar vermek olduğunu anlayan, insan birtakım arayışlara yönelmiştir. İnsan, bu arayışlar sonucunda ulaşılan, literatürde farklı başlıklar halinde bulunan ama özünde çevreye duyarlı bir mimari bulunan, birtakım kavramlar aracılığıyla bu ilişkiyi yeniden tesis yoluna gitmiştir. Teoride çok başarılı olan bu kavramlar, uygulamaya dönük olmadığından dolayı pratikte bu kadar başarılı uygulanamamışlardır. Bu makalenin amacı, literatürde ayrı başlıklar altında bulunan bu kavramlara ilişkin kriterleri toplulaştırıp, yapı üretim sürecine dahil edilebilecek somutlukta sunmayı amaçlamaktadır.

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“…Delphi method had been used in many areas and can be used for any purpose requiring the use of committees [58][59][60][61][62]. Based on many studies, Sourani and Sohail (2015) presented Delphi as useful to (a) obtain accurate information that is unavailable, (b) handle complex problems that require more judgmental analysis, (c) define areas where there is considerable uncertainty and/or a lack of agreed knowledge or disagreement, (d) allow for combining fragmentary perspectives into a collective understanding, (e) model a real-world phenomenon involving a range of viewpoints and for which there is little established quantitative evidence, and (f) highlight topics of concern and assess uncertainty in a quantitative manner [63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77].…”

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“…More recently, Delphi has been widely used to develop the criteria and indicators in many fields, especially in construction fields [56][57][58][59][60][61][62]; for example, Sourani and Sohail (2015) [63] used the Delphi technique to develop an agreed set of economic sustainability criteria that should be addressed in a procumbent strategy. Moreover, many studies [63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77] have showed that Delphi can be useful to (a) obtain accurate information that is unavailable, (b) handle complex Sustainability 2019, 11, 3166 3 of 32 problems that require more judgmental analysis, (c) define areas where there is considerable uncertainty and/or a lack of agreed knowledge or disagreement, (d) allow for combining fragmentary perspectives into a collective understanding, (e) model a real world phenomena involving a range of viewpoints and for which there is little established quantitative evidence, and (f) highlight topics of concern and assess uncertainty in a quantitative manner. In particular, based on the summary explained in Appendix A [78][79][80][81][82][83][84], this research accordingly chose the Delphi technique to develop sustainable city indicators (SCIs) for Cambodia through three-round panel surveys.…”

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Developing Sustainable City Indicators for Cambodia through Delphi Processes of Panel Surveys

Chan

Lee

2019

Sustainability

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Currently, Cambodia does not have sustainable city indicators, and green and clean city indicators are also limited compared to UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) indicators. Therefore, this research aims to develop sustainable city indicators for Cambodia and to address the questions "Are the green and clean city indicators limited in terms of sustainability?" and "Are the UN SDG 11 indicators suitable for Cambodia?" Delphi processes of panel surveys were conducted to develop the indicators in Round 1, pre-validate the indicators in Round 2, and validate the indicators in Round 3. The results showed that 69 initial indicators were obtained from Round 1; 41 pre-validated indicators were obtained from Round 2; and finally, 32 validated indicators were obtained from Round 3. All of the 32 indicators reached consensus. Based on the consensus indicators, the green and clean city indicators were found to be limited in terms of sustainability, and the UN SDG 11 has nine indicators suitable for Cambodia. These findings could be useful for applying the UN SDG 11 indicators to Cambodia and transforming the green and clean city indicators to sustainable city indicators. The 32 consensus indicators could be used as alternative sustainable city indicators for Cambodia.Sustainability 2019, 11, 3166 2 of 32 planning methodology document that "The development of green and sustainable cities in Cambodia is a key policy priority for the NCSD" [9] (p. iv). Furthermore, the government through its NCSD is currently developing the Code for Environment and Natural Resources. One chapter of the Code titled Sustainable Cities (Chapter 4) [10] is specifically to deal with the UN SDG 11 "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable" [11][12][13][14]. Moreover, Cambodia launched the clean city standard in order to improve urban quality and development by monitoring and evaluating cities through a clean city contest every three years [15], as well as the green city development program. The goal is to develop cities to be clean, green, and competitive while offering a safe and quality lifestyle to its residents [9,16,17].Based on the above reviewed sustainable city governance and development progress, Cambodia currently does not have indicators to monitor and assess the development of sustainable cities yet. Therefore, this research firstly aims to develop sustainable city indicators for Cambodia. The concept of sustainable development comprises three dimensions: Economic, social, and environmental [18][19][20][21][22]. The development must integrate the overlapping intersections of these dimensions, such as equitable (interaction between the economic and social dimension), liveable (correspondence of the environment to social needs), and viable [23-26] (economic development must abide by the supportive capacity of the ecosystems, and depletion of non-renewable resources must be avoided) [23] (p. 407). In this sense, sustainable city indicators need to be reached not only in terms of environmental di...

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Identification of Social Sustainability Criteria in Building Energy Retrofit Projects

Cited by 36 publications

References 23 publications

Assessment of Green Building Materials’ Attributes to Achieve Sustainable Building Façades Using AHP

Assessment of Green Building Materials’ Attributes to Achieve Sustainable Building Façades Using AHP

Çevreye Duyarlı Mimarlık Arayışında İnsan ve Doğa ile Uyumlu Yapı Üretme Süreci

Developing Sustainable City Indicators for Cambodia through Delphi Processes of Panel Surveys

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