scholarly journals SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS OF REUSED INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS IN CHINA: AN ASSESSMENT METHOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
Wei Tian ◽  
Xingju Zhong ◽  
Guangmin Zhang ◽  
Yang Miang Goh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Actual State ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rating Agencies ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
Industrial Buildings

The sustainable development of old industrial buildings is in line with the national construction strategy and has an important impact on current urban renewal. Only by achieving a unified balance among economic, social, and environmental factors can reused industrial buildings be considered sustainable. However, there are no relevant sustainability assessment indicators and methods for reused industrial buildings in China. The purpose of this study was to provide a reasonable and effective method for assessing the sustainability of reused industrial buildings. First, this study analysed the factors influencing reused industrial building sustainability through a project investigation. Second, based on the assessment indicator setting procedure, the sustainability assessment indicator system for reused industrial buildings was optimised. Moreover, a multi-level sustainability assessment model based on extenics was established to identify the correlation functions of indicators with different attributes. Finally, a case was considered to verify this assessment method. The results showed that this assessment method in good agreement with the actual state of the case was validated to be more effective and practical. The assessment method could provide a basis for decision-making to improve sustainability and could be adopted by relevant rating agencies to determine the sustainability level of reused industrial buildings.

Research on Assessment of Urban Transportation Low-Carbonization Development

2013 ◽  
Vol 779-780 ◽  
pp. 872-877
Author(s):  
Hong Hua ◽  
Yu Han Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Road Network ◽  
Urban Transportation ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
Set Up

Five influence factors of urban transportation low-carbonization development are analyzed which includes low-carbon transportation planning, road network construction, green travel, energy utilization and transportation management. The assessment indicator system and the assessment method of urban transportation low-carbonization development are set up. A case of assessment in Chengyang District is studied.

scholarly journals Empirical Research on the Evaluation Model and Method of Sustainability of the Open Source Ecosystem

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifang Liao ◽  
Libing Deng ◽  
Xiaoping Fan ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Hui Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Weight Calculation

The development of open source brings new thinking and production modes to software engineering and computer science, and establishes a software development method and ecological environment in which groups participate. Regardless of investors, developers, participants, and managers, they are most concerned about whether the Open Source Ecosystem can be sustainable to ensure that the ecosystem they choose will serve users for a long time. Moreover, the most important quality of the software ecosystem is sustainability, and it is also a research area in Symmetry. Therefore, it is significant to assess the sustainability of the Open Source Ecosystem. However, the current measurement of the sustainability of the Open Source Ecosystem lacks universal measurement indicators, as well as a method and a model. Therefore, this paper constructs an Evaluation Indicators System, which consists of three levels: The target level, the guideline level and the evaluation level, and takes openness, stability, activity, and extensibility as measurement indicators. On this basis, a weight calculation method, based on information contribution values and a Sustainability Assessment Model, is proposed. The models and methods are used to analyze the factors affecting the sustainability of Stack Overflow (SO) ecosystem. Through the analysis, we find that every indicator in the SO ecosystem is partaking in different development trends. The development trend of a single indicator does not represent the sustainable development trend of the whole ecosystem. It is necessary to consider all of the indicators to judge that ecosystem’s sustainability. The research on the sustainability of the Open Source Ecosystem is helpful for judging software health, measuring development efficiency and adjusting organizational structure. It also provides a reference for researchers who study the sustainability of software engineering.

The Application of Matrix Analysis in Recycling Projects of Old Industrial Building in the Post-Evaluation on Social Assessment

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 1467-1471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Jun Fan ◽  
Hui Min Li ◽  
Hong Yan Jiang ◽  
Hua Tang
Keyword(s):  
Indicator System ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Matrix Analysis ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Social Assessment ◽  
Post Evaluation ◽  
Industrial Buildings

The old industrial buildings can be rebuilt into competitive projects with better economic benefits, along with these, more have been transformed into socially welfare projects. Upon afterwards-evaluating on the old industrial building recycling projects which have been transformed into public welfare projects, its social benefits should be focused on. Based on the content and features of the evaluation of these old industrial building recycling projects, indicator system has been developed. With examples and the method of matrix analysis, the post-evaluation on renewable projects has been on.

scholarly journals Assessment of Power Plant Based on Unsafe Behavior of Workers through Backpropagation Neural Network Model

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Juan Shi ◽  
Dingyi Chang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
Bp Neural Network ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Electric Power Plants ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
Unsafe Behavior

Safety is an essential topic for electric power plants. In recent years, accidents caused by unsafe behaviors of electric power plant employees are frequent. To promote the sustainable development and safety of electric power plants, studies on the assessment of unsafe behavior are becoming increasingly important and urgent. In this study, accident statistical analysis, literature review, and expert survey are adopted to select more comprehensive and accurate assessment indicators of unsafe behavior of the workers in electric power plants. Data about indicator and unsafe behavior were obtained through a questionnaire survey, and 27 indicators were used as inputs, and the unsafe behavior was taken as the output of a backpropagation (BP) neural network based unsafe behavior assessment model. An assessment indicator system about power plant workers’ unsafe behavior composed of 4 first-level indicators and 27 second-level indicators was established and the weights of the assessment indicators were determined. A three-layer feedforward BP neural network assessment model of “27-13-1” layers was found to be a suitable model. The proposed model can demonstrate the nonlinear complex relationship between the assessment indicator and the unsafe behavior of power plant workers. The model can be helpful to evaluate, predict, and monitor the safety performance of electric power plants.

scholarly journals A Contextual Framework for the Development of a Building Sustainability Assessment Method for Iran

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahrzad Malek ◽  
David Grierson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
The One ◽  
National Framework

As one of the fastest growing countries in the Middle East, and the one most vulnerable to climate change, the main challenge now facing Iran today is how to house its growing population in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. However, in the absence of a national framework to guide the sustainable development of the built environment, responding to this challenge is problematic. The articulation of a comprehensive assessment method that would enable issues of sustainability to be addressed and incorporated within building construction projects is urgently required. The research that underpins this paper takes account of current tools in aiming to support the development of a national building sustainability assessment method (BSAM) for use in Iran that involves the identification of sources of impact, specific benchmarks, and priorities for a weighting system for assessment criteria. This paper profiles the basis of a contextual framework that will inform the development of such a regional-based tool, taking account of Iran’s current climate change adaptation policies and priorities, its environmental conditions and socio-economic challenges, building typologies, standards and benchmarks.

scholarly journals Sustainability-Related Decision Making in Industrial Buildings: An AHP Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Cuadrado ◽  
Mikel Zubizarreta ◽  
Eduardo Rojí ◽  
Harkaitz García ◽  
Marcos Larrauri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Industrial Buildings

Few other sectors have such a great impact on sustainability as the construction industry, in which concerns over the environmental dimension have been growing for some time. The sustainability assessment methodology presented in this paper is an AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) based on Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) and includes the main sustainability factors for consideration in the construction of an industrial building (environmental, economic, and social), as well as other factors that greatly influence the conceptual design of the building (employee safety, corporate image). Its simplicity is well adapted to its main objective, to serve as a sustainability-related decision making tool in industrial building projects, during the design stage. Accompanied by an economic valuation of the actions to be undertaken, this tool means that the most cost-effective solution may be selected from among the various options.

Indicators of Sustainable Development of the Province of Warmia and Mazury in the Environmental Aspect

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-309
Author(s):  
Mirosława Witkowska-Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Indicator Method ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Assessment Indicator ◽  
Area Unit

The purpose of this study has been to identify the degree of sustainability in the development of the Province of Warmia and Mazury. The theoretical and empirical investigations were conducted between 2003-2014 based on data from the Local Data Bank. Using a comparative indicator method, 20 indicators were developed, with different directions of preference. The evaluation involves the concept of uniform preference, hence the higher the assessment indicator, the better the situation in the evaluated area unit. Our studies on the sustainable development of the Province of Warmia and Mazury suggest that the indicators measuring the environmental dimension and consequently the quality of life of the residents (in this aspect) score higher than the country's average values. It is also optimistic that some progress, however small, can be seen in this area based on the analyzed dynamics of changes.

Functional and aesthetic transformation of industrial into housing spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Stanojevic ◽  
Aleksandar Kekovic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Industrial Architecture ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Xix Century

Buildings preservation by the conversion of their function has become a domain of interest in the field of industrial heritage. Due to the need to expand existing housing capacities in urban areas, a large number of industrial buildings are nowadays converted into multi-family and single-family housing. The paper deals with the analysis of the functional and aesthetic internal transformation of industrial into housing spaces. The research goal is to determine the principles of conceptualization of housing functional plan within the framework of the original physical structure of the industrial building, at the architectonic composition level and housing unit (dwelling) level. Besides, the paper aims to check the existence of common patterns of the aesthetic transformation of converted spaces, examined through three epochs of the development of industrial architecture: the second half of the XIX century, the first half of the XX century and the post-WWII period.

scholarly journals Optimizing the Environmental and Economic Sustainability of Remote Community Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie E. Filer ◽  
Justin D. Delorit ◽  
Andrew J. Hoisington ◽  
Steven J. Schuldt
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Model Performance ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Remote Community ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
Study Results

Remote communities such as rural villages, post-disaster housing camps, and military forward operating bases are often located in remote and hostile areas with limited or no access to established infrastructure grids. Operating these communities with conventional assets requires constant resupply, which yields a significant logistical burden, creates negative environmental impacts, and increases costs. For example, a 2000-member isolated village in northern Canada relying on diesel generators required 8.6 million USD of fuel per year and emitted 8500 tons of carbon dioxide. Remote community planners can mitigate these negative impacts by selecting sustainable technologies that minimize resource consumption and emissions. However, the alternatives often come at a higher procurement cost and mobilization requirement. To assist planners with this challenging task, this paper presents the development of a novel infrastructure sustainability assessment model capable of generating optimal tradeoffs between minimizing environmental impacts and minimizing life-cycle costs over the community’s anticipated lifespan. Model performance was evaluated using a case study of a hypothetical 500-person remote military base with 864 feasible infrastructure portfolios and 48 procedural portfolios. The case study results demonstrated the model’s novel capability to assist planners in identifying optimal combinations of infrastructure alternatives that minimize negative sustainability impacts, leading to remote communities that are more self-sufficient with reduced emissions and costs.

scholarly journals Sustainability Assessment of Public Transport, Part I—A Multi-Criteria Assessment Method to Compare Different Bus Technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 825
Author(s):  
Jonas Ammenberg ◽  
Sofia Dahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
County Level ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Problem Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

This article departs from the perspective of Swedish regional transport authorities and focuses on the public procurement of bus transports. Many of these public organizations on the county level have the ambition to contribute to a transition involving the continued marginalization of fossil fuels and improved sustainability performance. However, there are several renewable bus technologies to choose between and it can be difficult to know what alternative (or combination) is preferable. Prior research and the authors’ experiences indicate a need for improved knowledge and supportive methods on how sustainability assessments can support public procurement processes. The purpose of this article is to develop a multi-criteria assessment (MCA) method to support assessments of public bus technologies’ sustainability. The method, which was established in an iterative and participatory process, consists of four key areas and 12 indicators. The article introduces the problem context and reviews selected prior research of relevance dealing with green or sustainable public procurement and sustainability assessments. Further on, the process and MCA method are presented and discussed based on advice for effective and efficient sustainability assessments. In the companion article (Part II), the MCA method is applied to assess several bus technologies involving biodiesel, biomethane, diesel, electricity, ethanol and natural gas.

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