Current building assessments and Sustainability
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/bei.2023.25Keywords:
Building Assessments, TREES, Sustainability, Sustainable DevelopmentAbstract
This research aims to review current building assessments in order to gain a deeper
understanding of their concept framework as well as their scopes and limitations from the
sustainability perspective. Sixteen current building assessments were explored and analyzed by
comparing with the indicators of the ‘Circles of Sustainability’ including Ecology, Economics, Politics
and Culture. Opinions from the experts on related fields were also surveyed using questionnaires.
It was found that the current building assessment aims on encouraging the building design and
construction industry toward sustainable development. Most of the assessments were also found
to focus the most on ecology issues, followed by economics, politics and culture. From sixteen
assessments, only six have been shown to adopt all the four pillars of sustainability including
BREEAM, CASBEE, GB-Tool, VERDE, Estidama and DGBN. Moreover, it was found that most of the
assessments focused only on the designing and construction stage of the building’s life cycle, while
the stage of its operation and maintenance were neglected.
According to opinions from the 25 experts, most of the respondents adopt building
assessments in order to improve the company image, follow related laws and codes and to give
them an additional competitive edge. The experts thought that the current assessments have
neglected the diversity of area’s context of infrastructure and geography, the participation of local
and community, were too costly, and also solely restricted to qualified persons. The experts also
agree that the preferred building assessments should take into account natural ecology protection
and enhancement, local and community development, diversity of an area’s context, have
alternatives and be more accessible. These results and opinions are fruitful information for improving
the existing assessments or developing an alternative building evaluation.
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