ENERGY-SAVING BUILDING PROGRAM EVALUATION WITH AN INTEGRATED METHOD UNDER LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT

Min Huang,Jurgita Antuchevičienė,Xinli Zhang,Ruxue Ren,Huchang Liao,Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

doi:10.3846/jcem.2020.12647

Abstract

In the context of sustainable development, building energy conservation has become the development trend of the construction industry. The selection of energy-saving building program, as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, has a direct influence on the actual energy-saving effect. In this paper, an integrated MCDM method combining the extended best worst method (BWM) and Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS) method is proposed to solve the energy-saving building program selection problem under the linguistic Pythagorean fuzzy environment. The Linguistic Pythagorean fuzzy sets (LPFSs) are used to model the uncertain evaluation information of experts. The extended BWM is developed to determine the weights of criteria, while the extended WASPAS method is proposed to determine the ranking of alternatives. To validate the applicability and reliability of the proposed method, this paper presents a numerical example of the selection problem for energy-saving building programs. Some managerial insights are also given for practitioners to use the proposed method.

Highlights

The United Nations convened the Conference on Environment and Development with sustainable development as its core content in 1992
Motivated by the above analysis, this paper aims to develop an integrated multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method integrating the extended best worst method (BWM) and Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS) method to handle the energy-saving building program selection problem in the LPF environment
3) We develop an MCDM model based on the extended BWM and WASPAS method under the LPF environment, and apply it to the evaluation of energy-saving building programs to verify the performance of this method in practice

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Introduction

The United Nations convened the Conference on Environment and Development with sustainable development as its core content in 1992. All countries in the world have realized the importance of sustainable development and made efforts to put it into practice. Sustainable development refers to the coordinated development of economy, society, resources and environmental protection, in which saving resources and energy and protecting natural ecological environment are important contents. The global economy and society are developing fast, and the demand of energy is increasing constantly. The construction industry is one of the major energy consumers. The construction industry consumes more than 10% of water resource and generates more than 30% of waste, which leads to great harm to the environment (Si & Marjanovic-Halburd, 2018). To realize the sustainable development of the construction industry, it is critical to adopt building energy-saving measures to increase the efficiency of energy use and lower the environmental pollution

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