Scale matters: exploiting cross-scale interactions for a smart and sustainable built environment

Khoja, Ahmed

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“…At the same time, smart buildings are not isolated and are designed to take advantage of the cross-scale information exchange between the building and its context, which can ultimately improve the resilience of the individual buildings as well as the collective urban system. Realizing this requires a fundamental shift in the planning paradigm (Khoja, 2022).…”

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“…At the same time, a building intelligence should not be confused merely with a building automation as the "smart" buildings offer much wider benefits besides safety, time and cost saving, expanding to health and inhabitants comfort (Batov, 2015). Moreover, smart buildings are capable of leveraging temporal and spatial scales that extends well beyond their physical boundaries to optimize the performance of both individual and surrounding buildings (Khoja, 2022). With the implementation of automation technologies and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), it becomes feasible to harness the advantages of automated decision-making almost instantly, which can improve buildings' sustainability performance.…”

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“…The continuous influx of data from smart-enabled active building systems, such as lighting, heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC), as well as renewable energy systems, enables real-time adjustments to the performance parameters of each system. Smart buildings have been proven to be an economically viable climate mitigation option due to their ability to take advantage of temporal and spatial scales that extend far beyond the building user and the building physical boundary (Janhunen et al, 2020;Khoja, 2022). However, it is important to note that bypassing the integration of passive and holistic sustainability elements-essentially leaping from the third generation focus on energy efficiency directly to fifth generation smart building-can paradoxically lead to poorer energy and economic outcomes.…”

Section: An Overview Of the Investigated Smart Building Rating Systemmentioning

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“…Beyond the necessity of a framework, there is an urgent need to shift towards a holistic, multidimensional, and circular planning process that can bridge the temporal and spatial gaps inherent in current design practices. By doing so, planners and users can fully exploit the temporal and spatial cross-scale benefits offered by sustainable building design and smart building systems (Khoja, 2022). Such a shift would not only help enhance the resilience and sustainability of buildings but also ensure they are acting as interlocked, connected urban system.…”

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Charting climate adaptation integration in smart building rating systems: a comparative study

Khoja,

Danylenko

2024

Front. Built Environ.

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Introduction:As the world is engulfed with the growing impacts of climate change, the integration of climate adaptation measures into building performance requirements is essential. In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, smart buildings are expected to be the next frontier in the realm of building rating systems after sustainability-based one. Smart buildings can play a pivotal role in addressing the evolving challenges of changing climate due to their temporal and spatial cross-scale nature.Methods:This study assesses the integration of climate hazard adaptation options within four prominent smart building rating systems (SBRS). Using a sectoral analysis approach and a 4-point Likert scale, we systematically evaluate the extent to which these rating systems incorporate climate adaptation measures directly or indirectly across multiple building sectors. We identify strengths and weaknesses in each system’s approach, highlighting areas where adaptation options are more profoundly addressed and sectors that require further attention.Results:The evaluation results reveal variations in the comprehensiveness of climate adaptation integration among the smart building rating systems. The SRBS show a high level of integration of climate adaptation measures in the urban sectors intrinsically tied to the smart building paradigm, such as communication sector, and the human wellbeing and organization sector. Nevertheless, the study also revealed that SBRS almost universally fall short in covering other vital domains such as building envelope and structure, water and sanitation, and blue and green infrastructure.Discussions:Complementing the SBRS with sustainability rating systems (GBRS) can effectively address the limitations in climate adaptation integration within SBRS. Moreover, the inherent interconnectedness of smart buildings with their surrounding infrastructure and the broader urban environment underscores the importance of the cross-scale consideration in the building rating domain in general and in climate related topics in particular, this interconnectedness also highlights a smart building’s reliance on its surrounding context for optimal functionality and the interdependency between the building and urban scale.

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Section: An Overview Of the Investigated Smart Building Rating Systemmentioning

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Section: An Overview Of the Investigated Smart Building Rating Systemmentioning

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Charting climate adaptation integration in smart building rating systems: a comparative study

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2024

Front. Built Environ.

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The Current Scenario of Sustainable Planning and Development of the Indian Built Environment

Singh

2023

Circular Economy Implementation for Sustainability in the Built Environment

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In this book chapter, the concept of built environment along with sustainable planning and development were briefly explained. The book chapter highlighted the way the Indian built environment is being planned and developed in the recent years, and the past problems as well as the current problems of built environment, which were faced especially in India. Some major initiatives and projects were mentioned as well as briefly discussed in this chapter. A number of scientific and research papers related to the topic which were published in recent years will be considered to find out the gaps in the research. Further, the author collected data from various sources in order to perform graphical analysis to further support the study in the book chapter. On the basis of the graphical analysis, some major advantages and challenges of the sustainable built environment were discussed in this chapter.

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Scale matters: exploiting cross-scale interactions for a smart and sustainable built environment

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Charting climate adaptation integration in smart building rating systems: a comparative study

Charting climate adaptation integration in smart building rating systems: a comparative study

The Current Scenario of Sustainable Planning and Development of the Indian Built Environment

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