Evaluation of sustainability assessment tools for road construction projects applied on an asphalt road rehabilitation project in Germany

Road Construction ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Evaluation Tool ◽

German Market ◽

Standards And Guidelines ◽

European Standards ◽

General Demand ◽

The increasing awareness of the need for sustainable development in road construction and the growing number of different assessment tools worldwide has led to a general demand for a tool specific to the German market with its current environment and regulations. This thesis briefly reviews the overall development of the sustainability concept and then applies different tools for the evaluation of road constructions using the example of a small rehabilitation project in Germany. Further, a brief overview of the existing international and European standards and guidelines will be given, followed by a more detailed description of the Swiss method NISTRA, the application of the British asPECT, the Canadian Athena Pavement LCA and the French SEVE. Partly limited access to the tools and the small amount of available data due to the project size has led to rather limited results and it remains to be seen if a bigger project and a better access would result in a more sophisticated outcome. It can therefore be concluded that the sustainability evaluation tool for small rehabilitation projects specific to Germany would need a more simplified handling and structure then what is currently available.

Verification of the Adequacy of the Portuguese Sustainability Assessment Tool of High School Buildings, SAHSBPT, to the Francisco de Holanda High School, Guimarães

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11174559 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (17) ◽

pp. 4559

Author(s):

Tatiana Santos Saraiva ◽

Manuela Almeida ◽

Luís Bragança ◽

Maria Teresa Barbosa

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High Schools ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

School Buildings ◽

School Building ◽

Evaluation Tool ◽

Sustainability Assessment Tools ◽

Phd Thesis

Sustainable development can be achieved through several activities. The building and construction sector (B & C sector) is one of the major industries, and it can play a crucial role in the improvement of the most relevant environmental impacts. Nowadays, there are major concerns related to sustainability in construction. All types of buildings have different technical aspects; therefore, it is required to develop specific sustainability assessment tools. A school building has peculiarities connected to aspects of sustainability, as it is a building planned to offer adequate environments for the education of adolescents and children. This article shows the application of the SBTool methodology developed specifically for Portuguese high schools, SAHSBPT (Sustainable Assessment for High School Buildings) methodology, that is being elaborated by the first author in her PhD Thesis. This methodology allows architects, engineers and designers to improve sustainability in school buildings, in projects or in the rehabilitation of buildings. The objective of this research is to apply that evaluation tool in order to verify the efficiency of this methodology, as well as to recognize the level of sustainability of the Francisco de Holanda High School Building, in Guimarães, Portugal. The values found in the application of the Sustainable Assessment for High School Buildings in that high schools demonstrate a good result, as the overall value is A, 75% of the total result.

Sustainability assessment tools for higher education: An empirical comparative analysis

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.05.194 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 812-820 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

A. Berzosa ◽

M.O. Bernaldo ◽

G. Fernández-Sanchez

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Comparative Analysis ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

Environmental Impact Assessment Review ◽

10.1016/j.eiar.2012.06.006 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 73-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 256

Author(s):

Ayyoob Sharifi ◽

Akito Murayama

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Sustainability Assessment Tools

Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_300243 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1595-1595

Keyword(s):

Assessment Tools ◽

Social criteria to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool: UHU2SAT

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123704031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 237 ◽

pp. 04031

Author(s):

Antonio Sánchez Cordero ◽

Marta Videras Rodríguez ◽

Sergio Gómez Melgar ◽

José Manuel Andujar Márquez

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Human Comfort ◽

Operation And Maintenance ◽

Holistic Assessment ◽

Recently, several urban sustainability assessment tools (USAT) have appeared to reduce the human impact provided by the built environment. Few of them focus on the assessment of urban spaces like squares, streets, and parks, etc., but they don’t operation and maintenance (OM) phase is not considered. It would be necessary to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool (UHU2SAT) to specifically assess urban spaces under OM phase. This paper provides a qualitative research among 188 studies, with the aim to classify them according to the impacts they pursue: environmental (ENV), social (SOC) economic (ECO) and Others. Finally, the SOC criteria are reduced up to 21 and arranged into 4 different groups: Human comfort, Urban mobility, SOC Cohesion, and Health & safety. These SOC criteria have been discussed and revised according to the literature review to identify the most suitable indicators for the UHU2SAT. Finally, it can be concluded that this methodology could also be useful to obtain ENV and ECO criteria to provide a holistic assessment of the sustainability.