Triple objective evaluation model of green building based on whole life-cycle

2014 ◽  
pp. 463-468
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS IN EGYPT: A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Azouz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Building Materials ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Sustainable development has become a significant worldwide concern. The past few years have seen a lot of changes. Some of these affect how we do approach - and how we should approach - environmental issues. Because of their adverse impacts to sustainability, knowledge about building materials became a crucial dimension of green change in building and design. The problem is that in Egypt there is still no database for green building ma-terials. In spite that there are currently over 120 international green labelling programs for building materials worldwide, they cannot be locally used. This is because building materials and the way they are extracted, manufactured, used, transported, recycled or disposed differ from country to country. All these factors result in insufficiency of data & information on green building materials and those who are involved in the design, construction & man-agement of building materials are acutely lacking the basic information on materials that would allow them to make constructive changes. That's why the introduction of a system for specification, assessment & se-lection of green building materials is considered to be one of the corner-stones of promoting sustainable green building development in Egypt as an attempt to fulfil Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals developed by the United Nations to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030. The aim of the research is to develop a framework for a system for evaluat-ing sustainability of building materials in Egypt to achieve greener steps to-wards sustainability with a new way of scoring sustainability of building materials that evaluates both positive & negative ecological, social & health and economic impacts through the whole life cycle. This system could be applied in the development of the New Cites that considers the unique chal-lenges of the region and the local market and could be applied all over the country taking into consideration the nature of each region with its available building materials and specific climatic conditions and the different regional priorities and requirements. The research was based on an inductive approach through studying & analy-sis of the life cycle of the building materials, the different aspects and crite-ria for the evaluation of green building materials, currently available re-sources of information about building materials in Egypt and the interna-tional & national reference values & benchmarks that could be used as a base for the new system. Findings will lead to a proposed framework of a system for specification and assessment of green building materials in Egypt. This framework de-scribes all the kind of information required and the procedures that should be taken for the development of the system from collecting data till the es-tablishment of online guide for green building materials and a digital library for accessible and reliable information on green building materials that ena-bles building designers, constructors and developers to make reasoned choices based upon the health & environmental impacts of their decisions and eases the use & selection of Green Building materials in Egypt over the coming years.

Safety Performance Evaluation of Green Building Based on Structural Equation Modeling

2013 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 150-156
Author(s):  
Liu Xing Hu
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Construction Enterprises ◽  
Production Safety ◽  
The Impact

In order to give a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the work of construction enterprises and production safety, this article is based on the importance of production safety and service quality to explore the impact of construction factor of safety in production of construction enterprises. It uses the KPI theory to construct the four dimensions of management systems, construction equipment, and environmental conditions and other key performance indicators, and studies the structural equation theory to construct the SEM evaluation model, summarizing that the evaluation of the general program with examples from a quantitative point of view of safety performance evaluation. The results showed that the index system was built and SEM performance evaluation model can accurately evaluate the safety performance of the enterprise.

scholarly journals A Methodology for Energy Simulation of Risedential Buildings: A Case Study for Amman

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 772-781
Author(s):  
Ahmad Altarabsheh ◽  
Ibrahim Altarabsheh ◽  
Sara Altarabsheh ◽  
Nisreen Rababaa ◽  
Ayat Smadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Zero Energy Building ◽  
Net Zero ◽  
Whole Life Cycle ◽  
Zero Energy Buildings

Green buildings have been gaining in popularity over the past few years in Jordan. This is attributed to environmental and financial reasons directly related to energy consumption and cost. Energy sector in Jordan faces two main challenges which are the fast growing of energy demand and the scarcity of resources to fulfill this demand. Green buildings can save energy by designing them as near Zero Energy Buildings, where they produce amount of energy almost equal the amount of energy they consume. In special cases green buildings can be designed as Net zero energy buildings, where they produce as much energy as they consume. Jordan government encourage people to adopt net zero green buildings by issuing the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Law No. 13 of 2012, that allows selling excessive electricity to electricity companies. Despite these benefits of green buildings, they are not yet the norm in the building sector in Jordan. This can be attributed to the high construction cost of green building compared to traditional one. However, this may not be true if the whole life cycle cost of the building is considered, in which the cost not only include design and construction but also operation and maintenance as well. This paper aims to provide real life cycle cost analysis for a typical residential building in Jordan, and to search different effective building strategies and design scenarios that will lead to a successful near Zero Energy Building. The search will apply main green building strategies recommended for Jordan climatic zone. The outcome of this study is a list of best economically feasible design solutions and system selections that result in near Zero Energy Building in Jordan for residential buildings.

scholarly journals Economic Analysis and Evaluation of Energy-efficient Renovation of Existing Buildings Based on the Whole Life Cycle

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 02093
Author(s):  
Han Xue
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Economic Evaluation Model ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

There has long been a lack of understanding of the costs and benefits of energy-efficient renovation of existing buildings, which discourages the participation of stakeholders. This paper studied the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings, analyzed the incremental cost and incremental benefit based on the whole life cycle, and constructed the economic evaluation model of energy-saving renovation of existing buildings to provide a scientific theoretical basis for the economic evaluation of the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings and provide references for the decision-making of stakeholders, and promote the energy-saving renovation of buildings from an economic point of view.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development of Prefabricated Buildings from the Perspective of Green Supply Chain Management

CONVERTER ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Yanli Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Whole Life Cycle ◽  
Prefabricated Building

As a green, environment-friendly, energy-saving and efficient building, prefabricated building has become an important way for the development of building industrialization in China. In this paper, the green supply chain structure model of prefabricated building is constructed from the perspective of green supply chain life cycle, and the evaluation index system of sustainable development of prefabricated building is established. This paper analyzes the whole life of assembly green supply chain and applies hierarchical clustering TOPSIS comprehensive evaluation model to evaluate and identify the key nodes of assembly green supply chain. This provides theoretical support and decision-making basis for green supply chain optimization management of prefabricated buildings. At the same time, this paper puts forward some suggestions for the operation of the key links of the prefabricated green supply chain, and realizes the green sustainable management of the whole life cycle of the prefabricated building supply chain. The test results show that this method can promote the sustainable development of prefabricated buildings.

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