Domestic and Global New Building Construction: A Tool for Selecting Green and Sustainable Building Systems and Components

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odette Mina ◽  
Richard Ciocci
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Weighting Scheme ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Building Components ◽  
Design And Construction

This paper provides an overview of how to design a cost effective and environmentally responsible, green and sustainable, commercial building. Specifically included is the selection process for proper building components which will identify all factors that must receive design phase consideration and ultimately lead to the desired outcome. The process takes into consideration the appropriate aspects of various green building environmental assessment tools, such as, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Green Globes (GG), Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), to identify important elements for design, construction, operation and maintenance of a building. Such a selection process involves many building components, but the focus of this paper is roofing systems. Specifically, the roofing system selection process will use a weighting scheme, which will be described later in this paper. This example selection process will illustrate how to identify all important factors that must be considered when choosing the best environmentally responsible and sustainable building components that are appropriate for the specific design and construction project. The weighting scheme will be useful and applicable not only for specific projects at the local level but globally as well. Factors taken into consideration are building use; geographic location and climate; budget; and any additional considerations deemed necessary by the design and construction project team.

Integrating key aspects of landscape and sustainable building development with the use of environmental assessment tools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gayathiri Gowri Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Full Life Cycle ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
The Uk

In this research, the Building Research Establishment and Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) tool, which is the longest serving tool of its kind in the world, is evaluated using a robust Landscape Framework. The BREEAM tool evolved in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1990 to address critical environmental issues such as climate change, the fossil fuel crisis and rapid urbanisation. The English planning system encourages new buildings and major refurbishment to adopt this tool to promote Sustainable Building Development (SBD). Recently, landscape practitioners in the UK have raised concern that the tool focuses around energy, transport, materials, and ecological aspects (such as native species), while other fundamental landscape values are not considered. Landscape is fundamental in terms of building and infrastructure, as it is a combination of different components such as land use, nature and wildlife and is a key aspect of culture. The SBD context is often characterised as comprising three pillars - environment, society and economy. However, to fully integrate landscape, this research incorporates a fourth pillar, that of culture. A Landscape Framework is developed as part of this research using these four pillars and captures fundamental values of landscape in relation to SBD from both the academics’ and practitioners’ perspective. The evaluation exercise identified that the BREEAM tool has a significant gap, which is in addressing the landscape. The evaluation of other building and infrastructure assessment tools emphasise that a sustainable approach is required from the outset of a building development until the end of its life. Consequently, a Sustainable Landscape Development Framework has been proposed as part of this research to be integrated with the existing BREEAM tool, by setting out five stages to capture the full life cycle of building development. This approach redefines SBD and reconnects people with the surrounding environment.

A Comprehensive Literature Review on Construction Project Risk Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ermias Tesfaye ◽  
Eshetie Berhan ◽  
Daniel Kitaw
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Project Risk Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to present the chronological development of risk assessment techniques and models undertaken in construction project for the past two decades. This research used a systematic review and meta-analysis on risk assessment of construction project literatures. This includes browsing relevant researches and publications, screening articles based on the year of publication, identifying the domains and attributes. Accordingly, findings of major results achieved have been presented systematically based on the chronology of the research and research gaps are identified. From the review, it is found out that the dominant risk assessment tools used for the past twenty years is statistical analysis and fuzzy expert system.

scholarly journals A REVIEW OF MALAYSIAN SUSTAINABLE BUILDING ASSESSMENT TOOLS: THE SOCIAL DIMENSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Razlin Mansor ◽  
Sheau-Ting Low
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
The Social ◽  
Building Assessment ◽  
Development Goals

Building assessment tools have been introduced for nearly two decades to specifically recognize buildings performance towards sustainable development goals. However, the requirements to achieve sustainability in buildings are mainly focused on the environmental and economic aspects, while the significance of social aspects has been scarcely emphasized in many building assessments tools. This paper presents a review of social aspects in the sustainable building assessment tools adopted in Malaysia. In total, four building assessment tools are selected and discussed with the aim to identify to what extent the building assessment tools cover the social dimension. The results of the content analysis indicate that the assessment tools have included partial criteria of social aspects but the scope could further expand to preserve the key features of the social aspects including quality of life, human health, and environmental satisfaction. The findings provide a valuable overview of the building assessment tools and address gaps in existing building assessment tools from a social aspect perspective.

scholarly journals The Assessment of Financial Literacy: New Evidence from Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolini ◽  
Haupt
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Financial Behaviors ◽  
Financial Decisions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literacy Research

The hypothesis that people with more financial literacy make better financial decisions and show positive financial behaviors is crucial for more than one stakeholder. A weak connection between financial literacy and financial behaviors jeopardizes the opportunity to invest in financial education and to develop a consumer protection framework based on the chance to develop aware and responsible financial consumers. This study uses data from different countries (Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the UK), using surveys devised and fielded specifically to measure financial literacy and in order to assess if the availability of a broad set of items on financial literacy allows to develop new measures of financial literacy to better understand the relationship between financial literacy and financial behaviors. The well-established Lusardi–Mitchell questions are compared with measures that differ in terms of number of items (the “50-items” index), range of topics (the “5-specific” index), or selection process of the items (the “unbiased” index). Results support the hypothesis that the Lusardi–Mitchell questions remain a good measure in a first-step analysis, but a deeper understanding of the connection between financial literacy and financial behaviors benefits from the measures proposed in the study, that should be considered as additional assessment tools in financial literacy research.

scholarly journals Comparison of Four Environmental Assessment Tools in Swedish Manufacturing: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha Shahbazi ◽  
Martin Kurdve ◽  
Mats Zackrisson ◽  
Christina Jönsson ◽  
Anna Runa Kristinsdottir
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Value Stream Mapping ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Waste Flow ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tools And Methods

To achieve sustainable development goals, it is essential to include the industrial system. There are sufficient numbers of tools and methods for measuring, assessing and improving the quality, productivity and efficiency of production, but the number of tools and methods for environmental initiatives on the shop floor is rather low. Incorporating environmental considerations into production and performance management systems still generally involves a top-down approach aggregated for an entire manufacturing plant. Green lean studies have been attempting to fill this gap to some extent, but the lack of detailed methodologies and practical tools for environmental manufacturing improvement on the shop floor is still evident. This paper reports on the application of four environmental assessment tools commonly used among Swedish manufacturing companies—Green Performance Map (GPM), Environmental Value Stream Mapping (EVSM), Waste Flow Mapping (WFM), and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)—to help practitioners and scholars to understand the different features of each tool, so in turn the right tool(s) can be selected according to particular questions and the industrial settings. Because there are some overlap and differences between the tools and a given tool may be more appropriate to a situation depending on the question posed, a combination of tools is suggested to embrace different types of data collection and analysis to include different environmental impacts for better prioritization and decision-making.

Readiness Criteria: Indonesias’ New Initiative to Ensure Sustainable Development Program

2015 ◽  
Vol 776 ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Alit Merthayasa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
National Development ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Donor Funding

Government of Indonesia through Ministry of National Development Planning/Head of BAPPENAS, recently launched a new initiative in regard to Sustainable Development Program/project criteria called Readiness Criteria. The purpose of the criteria is to select proposed development program / project submitted by local governments as well as donor/funding agency especially related to grant or loan funds, through assessment or screening process. The main criteria consist of: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact criteria. The screening process implemented using design and monitoring framework (DMF), which is introduced and developed by ADB funded project’s in Indonesia. Decision of the selection process was made based on project assessment tools (PAT). Nowadays, readiness criteria will be implemented during pre-design phase or during proposal submission stages under the planning and budgeting period as stated by Indonesia Development Planning Board/BAPPENAS.

A STATE-OF-THE-ART SHORE CROSSING

2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 551
Author(s):  
E.P. Jas ◽  
A.T. McPhee
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Pipeline System ◽  
Directional Drilling ◽  
Horizontal Directional Drilling ◽  
Trenchless Technology ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Western Victoria ◽  
Design And Construction

An insight is provided into the design and construction of the shore crossing of the export pipeline system for the Otway Gas Project in Western Victoria. The development of the Otway Gas Project, which is now underway, requires the installation of a 20-inch gas pipeline and a 4-inch glycol service line across the shoreline in the Port Campbell National Park along the Great Ocean Road, one of the major tourist attractions in Australia. An account is given of the landfall site selection process, the collection of required site data, the identification of geo-hazards, the development of a unique construction method based on a combination of retractable micro-tunnelling and horizontal directional drilling, and an outline of the construction challenges. These include the complex geo-technical conditions, the ever present high-energy Southern Ocean swell, and the environmental significance of the site. The design and construction work performed demonstrates that trenchless technology can successfully be applied for the installation of pipelines across shorelines provided detailed attention is paid to a number of design and construction aspects; bearing in mind that horizontal directional drilling design guidelines are generally limited with respect to these crossings.

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