scholarly journals Embedded Life Cycle Costing Elements in Green Building Rating Tool

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 750-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jam Shahzaib Khan ◽  
Rozana Zakaria ◽  
Eeydzah Aminudin ◽  
Nur Izie Adiana Abidin ◽  
Mohd Affifuddin Mahyuddin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Development Goals

Green Building rating tools are the essential need of this era, to cope up with the sustainable development goals, climate change, and natural resource degradation through buildings. Realization of green building incentives decently increased within past few decades with abrupt declination in real estate markets and economic depletion has decelerated the interest of investors towards the green building projects. This research calculates influence of costing elements in MyCREST (IS-design) using questionnaire survey distributed amongst qualified professionals (QP’S) of green buildings and expert practitioners. Firstly, factor score and then weightage factor was performed to produce the final result with weightage output for evaluating weighatge and ranking of the relevant criteria of MyCREST and life cycle cost elements respectively. It is found that the criteria of storm water management has weighatge of 0.236 as highest and criteria environmental management plan (EMP) as 0.061 as lowest. Research also identified another perspective by finding association of cost element at design stage of MyCREST and found that management cost is highly associated at design stage with the value of 87.7%. The outcome of this research will add value to green building development and map road towards sustainable development using green building tools to uplift quality of life. Furthermore, this paves a way to integrate various stages of MyCREST with life cycle costing tool to potentially contribute in evaluating cost association through green building rating tool.

Study on Cost of Green Building Based on the Life Cycle Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 228-231
Author(s):  
Yi Lin Yin ◽  
Juan Bai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Green Building ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Cost Characteristics ◽  
Design Construction

Currently, there exsits a Serious resource wasting phenomenon. In order to achieve the sustainable development of construction industry, the development of green building has become the inevitable choice of all countries in the world. This paper based on the sustainable development as the guiding ideology, through the basic theory of green building, based on the life cycle cost theory understanding as the foundation. First of all ,know the current situation of the development of green building cost at home and abroad, then according to the life cycle theory will be divided into green building decision-making, design, construction debugging, operation maintenance and recycling discarded five stages, points out the life cycle cost characteristics of green building.

Life Cycle Cost Accessment of Thermal Power Project under Sustainable Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 26-28 ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Jun Wang ◽  
Chang Huan Tu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Conservation

Enterprise sustainable development emphasizes coordination of the development of economy, environment and society. The life cycle cost based on the sustainable development controls the engineering cost as well as environmental pollution and damage. The thermal power plant burns large amount of fossil fuels and discharge pollutants which cause serious pollution. Therefore the pollution control and ecological conservation make up important parts of construction and production cost, both of which are key parts of life cycle cost. This paper uses analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to estimate the life cycle cost and helps the enterprise to make social or temporal comparison and potentiality exploitation and to improve its sustainable development capability.

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.

An Application of a Generalized Life Cycle Cost Model to BOXN Wagons of Indian Railways

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laxman Yadu Waghmode ◽  
Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Life Cycle Costing ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Railway Vehicle ◽  
Repairable System ◽  
Initial Product ◽  
Finished Steel ◽  
Railway Industry

The objective of this paper is to apply a methodology developed for effective implementation of life cycle costing (LCC) in design and procurement of repairable products/systems to railway wagons. From its origin in defense equipment in US in 1960s, the application of life cycle cost concept has now been extended to other areas of private and public sectors too. This is because the customers are now considering not only the initial product costs but also the cost implications associated with the entire life span of a product. This emerging trend in global markets is gradually forcing the product manufacturers to estimate and optimize the product LCC with reference to performance, safety, reliability (R), and maintainability (M). The life cycle cost of a repairable system is closely coupled to its reliability and maintainability and therefore a careful consideration to the R & M parameters in the product design stage is quite essential from the LCC viewpoint. Taking into consideration these aspects a generalized modeling methodology has been proposed to estimate the life cycle cost of repairable products based on R & M principles. Life cycle costing in railway industry has traditionally been focused on the prediction of investment of railway vehicle. But, today’s mass transit market has rapidly been changed and the suppliers are now forced to treat the LCC of entire railway system. Indian railways are the principle mode of transport for raw materials for steel plants, finished steel from steel plants, coal, oil, iron, cement, petroleum products, fertilizers and food grains in India. To serve this purpose BOXN wagons are used by Indian railways. The BOXN wagons typically have a life span of 35 years and being a repairable system experience multiple failures over their life span. In this paper, a generalized model for LCC of repairable products has been proposed and is applied to BOXN wagon of Indian railways and the results obtained are presented. The methodology presented herein is expected to provide some useful guidelines to the railway industry to predict and analyze the life cycle cost of railway vehicles.

scholarly journals Analysis and Identification of Sustainable Public Policy for Management of Cultural and Natural Heritage in the Maya Region in Line with the Sustainable Development Goals

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 4172-4183
Author(s):  
Kennedy Obombo Magio ◽  
Lilia Lucia Lizama Aranda ◽  
Laureano González ◽  
Christian Alpuche
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Land Use Plan

The present study identifies suitable sustainable public policy for the administration of archaeological zones in Mexico, particularly in the states of Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo (Maya region). Given the rapid economic growth of the Southeastern region of Mexico, it is necessary to implement a comprehensive and sustainable form of administration for the cultural and archaeological heritage. Key components of the ideal policy are aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data is based on researchers’ own experiences on how these SDGs can act as a base for the much needed change in the management of Mexico´s archaeological zones. We are looking at a policy that has clear goals, objectives, concrete strategies and actions including: (1) Comprehensive plan, (2) Regional plan, (3) Land use plan—master plan, (4) Cultural tourism plan which covers ecotourism and nature based tourism, art centers, museums and monuments. The resource management plan should cover aspects like: (1) disaster planning, (2) operations and marketing, (3) interpretation, (4) budgetary issues and (5) financing. Success in the implementation of such a policy requires the strengthening of regional and local federalism, transparency, accountability, corporate governance and planning for sustainable cultural tourism development.

Research on the Life Cycle Cost Control of Urban Complex Based on the Sustainable Development Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 2423-2427
Author(s):  
Jin Hua Li ◽  
Hong Yue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Cycle Cost ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Complex

The developer should apply the idea of sustainable development in each stage and consider the cost comprehensively. In the decision-making phase, the developer should consider the social and economic benefits, demonstrate the feasibility of the project. At the design stage the design unit should make full use of the new technology and renewable resources to design the urban complex. In the implementation stage, the construction unit should control costs within budget and reduce the pollution to the environment. In the operational phase, the tenement and the users should utilize resources circularly and protect environment. Research on sustainable development on the city complex can not only play a positive role for building materials saving, energy saving, resources and the environment protection, but also can have a great impact on the economic benefits of the urban complex and can greatly reduce the operation cost of the late.

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