Sustainability assessment of flooring systems in the city of Tehran: An AHP-based life cycle analysis

Reza, Bahareh; Sadiq, Rehan; Hewage, Kasun

doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2010.11.041

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“…The weighting methods, which are the critical step of evaluation, can be mainly divided into two categories. One is the subjective method, which determines the weight coefficient of each indicator by comprehensive consulting score, includes analytic hierarchy process(AHP) [40][41][42] and Delphi method [43]. This method possibly tends to exaggerate or reduce the effects of certain indicators, and easily leads to reflecting the relationship among indicators inaccurately.…”

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

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Abstract:The Chinese government started an important project "Geographical conditions monitoring (GCM)" in 2012, which aims at fully revealing the spatial pattern of natural resources, and economic and social development. Urban development assessment and analysis are an important topic of the comprehensive statistics in GCM project. This study quantitatively evaluates the sustainable development level of 287 cities at prefecture level and above in China and analyzes their spatial distribution. Both an index system of urban sustainable development (USI) constructed by three aspects, namely society, economy and environment, and the TOPSIS-Entropy method are adopted. The results show that the overall level of urban sustainable development in China is not high, and obvious differences in urban sustainable development among cities exist. The coordination of social, economic and environmental sustainable development in China is at a low level. In terms of spatial distribution, cities from eastern coastal areas of China are at relatively higher levels of sustainable development with central and northeastern cities ranking second and western ones lowest. Several spatial clusters of urban sustainable development can be found. The "High-High" clusters, in which cities have high levels of sustainable development, are distributed in urban agglomerations. Finally, some suggestions have been provided to achieve all-round sustainable development in China.

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

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“…In 2011, Reza et al analyse the sustainability of unidirectional slabs by including three different materials as lightening elements. In that study they use seven environmental indicators, three economic and also three social indicators (23). In case of columns, two previous works can be highlighted.…”

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Combined assessment of the environmental, economic and social impacts of structural solutions for residential construction

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“…With this in mind, the use of multi-attribute decision making methods including TOPSIS and AHP for selection of building materials for sustainable buildings has been studied in several previous studies [23,[71][72][73][74]. In particular, in a study focused on embodied carbon of structures, Moussavi et al showed that the selection of building material for a structure should be performed by accounting for the effect such selection may have on the operating carbon of a building [29].…”

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Estimation and Minimization of Embodied Carbon of Buildings: A Review

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Building and construction is responsible for up to 30% of annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, commonly reported in carbon equivalent unit. Carbon emissions are incurred in all stages of a building's life cycle and are generally categorised into operating carbon and embodied carbon, each making varying contributions to the life cycle carbon depending on the building's characteristics. With recent advances in reducing the operating carbon of buildings, the available literature indicates a clear shift in attention towards investigating strategies to minimize embodied carbon. However, minimizing the embodied carbon of buildings is challenging and requires evaluating the effects of embodied carbon reduction strategies on the emissions incurred in different life cycle phases, as well as the operating carbon of the building. In this paper, the available literature on strategies for reducing the embodied carbon of buildings, as well as methods for estimating the embodied carbon of buildings, is reviewed and the strengths and weaknesses of each method are highlighted.

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Sustainability assessment of flooring systems in the city of Tehran: An AHP-based life cycle analysis

Cited by 174 publications

References 25 publications

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

Combined assessment of the environmental, economic and social impacts of structural solutions for residential construction

Estimation and Minimization of Embodied Carbon of Buildings: A Review

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