Sustainability-Related Decision Making in Industrial Buildings: An AHP Analysis

Cuadrado, Jesús; Zubizarreta, Mikel; Rojí, Eduardo; García, Harkaitz; Larrauri, M.

doi:10.1155/2015/157129

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“…On the environmental side, the respondents consider that sub-criterion S 1 , related to materials and energy use reductions during the production and distribution processes is slightly more important than S 2 , which refers to reducing the amount and damage of emissions generated by the company (relative weights 0.52 vs. 0.48). The same or similar motivations were identified in previous studies applied to European [16,21,35,36], Asian [13][14][15][17][18][19]21,38], and American [36,37] companies.…”

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confidence: 76%

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Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

André

Valenciano-Salazar

2020

Sustainability

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We propose addressing an organization’s adoption of an environmental certification as a multicriteria problem considering environmental sustainability as well as economic and strategic aspects. Our methodological approach uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which we use in an empirical application to analyze the adoption decision of several Costa Rican firms and institutions. Firstly, we select a set of economic, strategic, and environmental criteria that seem relevant for the organization’s direction. We select these criteria according to our literature review and a series of face-to-face interviews with scholars and companies’ managers. As an environmental certification, we focus on Carbon Neutral (CN), which is a domestic certification aimed at reducing or offsetting carbon emissions. For the sake of comparison, we also consider ISO 14001, which is a well-known international standard aimed at compliance with environmental norms. We conduct the AHP analysis using the answers given by 24 companies and institutions, which in aggregate terms, give CN a higher score than ISO 14001. This result is mainly due to the fact that CN ranks above ISO 14001 when attending to environmental sustainability, although ISO 14001 tends to be preferred in economic and strategic terms.

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“…Regarding environmental sustainability, there are two broad elements that are explicitly or implicitly present in most of the previous studies, namely the reduction in the use of materials and energy [13][14][15][16]18,19,21,[35][36][37][38][39] and the reduction in the company s emissions [13,15,16,[18][19][20][21][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

André

Valenciano-Salazar

2020

Sustainability

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“…Evaluation Indicators e selection of sustainability performance indicators, for instance, technical, social, environmental, and economical, in evaluating sustainability of construction material is found enormously in the literature (technical indicators: [3,[16][17][18][19]; environmental indicators: [20][21][22][23][24]; socioeconomic indicators: [7,[25][26][27][28].…”

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Selection of Sustainable Supplementary Concrete Materials Using OSM-AHP-TOPSIS Approach

Ahmed

Qureshi

Mallick

et al. 2019

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Due to resource scarcity, environmental impact, and socioeconomic constraints, sustainable criteria should be given prime importance in the construction industry. The sustainability in concrete can be attained using supplementary materials. The numbers of supplementary concrete materials (SCMs) are available ranging from industries by-products, agro-products, waste product, and newly engineered materials. The selection of the supplementary materials is challenging due to the wide range of environmental, technical, and economic constraints. The paper proposes a decision support framework considering technical, environmental, social, and economic sustainability criteria for ranking of concrete supplementary material. The decision framework includes the optimal scoring method- (OSM-) based shortlisting of supplementary materials, with technical and cost characteristics, and subsequent prioritizing material according to sustainable potentiality order using AHP-TOPSIS. The stability of the ranking of sustainable concrete supplementary materials has been verified using sensitivity analysis. The present study develops decision support framework by employing technical characteristics of the most technically sound material used as concrete material. The technical, environmental, and socioeconomic sustainable performance indicators have considered its selection to obtain much needed sustainability and to boost the eco-friendly environment. From the proposed MCDM framework, it is found that engineered siliceous materials and agriculture-based industrial waste products as SCMs will prove to be most sustainable in the construction industry.

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“…While the integrated sustainability is the biggest concern of Sinou and Kyvelou (2006) there are only very few studies (Cuadrado, Zubizarreta, Rojí, García, & Larrauri, 2015;Cuadrado, Zubizarreta, Rojí, Larrauri, & Álvarez, 2016) including the current study given a major focus on it. In comparison, the current study can be applied to building elements and later on to the whole building by aggregating the elements; however, few other studies can mostly be applied to whole buildings.…”

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Prioritising Sustainability Factors for Australian Community Buildings’ Management Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (Ahp)

Kalutara

Zhang

Setunge

et al. 2018

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Abstract. The essence of Australian community buildings' sustainable management drives through a previously established decision-making structure with four sustainability aspects and accompanying 18 criteria. Informed decisions are supported with a decision-making model that generates sustainability impacts of building components based on this decision-making structure. Building components' individual impacts can be assigned using a numbering scale incorporated with linguistic terms. However, similar importance given to each aspect or criterion is arguable when the combined effect is considered. Hence, they should be given different weightings and their combination with individual impacts will produce final sustainability impacts. For calculating weightings, the study uses Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), widely used technique in Multi Attribute Decision-Making (MADM). The study also conducted an industry-wide questionnaire across Australian local councils because pair-wise comparison data is essential for weighting calculation. This paper presents the survey data and analysis results that captured weightings of sustainability aspects and criteria.

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Sustainability-Related Decision Making in Industrial Buildings: An AHP Analysis

Cited by 33 publications

References 31 publications

Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

Selection of Sustainable Supplementary Concrete Materials Using OSM-AHP-TOPSIS Approach

Prioritising Sustainability Factors for Australian Community Buildings’ Management Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (Ahp)

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