Abstract
Nowadays researchers and practitioners are oriented towards questioning how effective are the different building life cycle activities contribution to preserving the environment and fulfilling the need for equilibrium. Terminologies such as Building sustainability and Green Buildings have long been adopted yet the evaluation of such has been driven through the use of rating systems. LEED of the United States, BREEAM of the United Kingdom, and Pearl of the United Arab Emirates are namely good examples of these rating systems. This paper introduces a new approach for evaluation of building life cycle sustainability through simulation of activities interaction and studying its behaviour. The effort focuses on comprehending impact and effect of suitability related activities over the whole building life cycle or period of time. The methodology includes gathering a pool of parameters through benchmarking of five selected rating systems, analytical factorization for the gathered parameters is used to elect the most influencing parameters. Followed by simulation modelling using System dynamics to capture the interaction of the considered parameters. The resulting behaviour obtained from simulation is studied and used in designing a tool for prediction of sustainability.
Highlights
The Buildings Sustainability has long been defined as the process of implementing an environmentally efficient resources management
Green building design involves finding the balance between homebuilding and the sustainable environment
Having a tool that can efficiently evaluate practicability and sustainability of buildings has been a vital concern by practitioners, and efforts for interventions resulted in using holistic concepts in introducing rating systems such as
Summary
The Buildings Sustainability has long been defined as the process of implementing an environmentally efficient resources management. LEED, similar to most successive rating systems, has a main objective which is escalating reduction in the overall impact of the building processes on human health and the natural environment. Beside this new technologies were constantly developed to enhance production of greener buildings. All rating systems efficiently evaluated environmental impact and resources use for an instance of the building in its life cycle as it is difficult to assess the relative improvements in sustainability of one decision versus another [3]. The paper presents a structured approach towards interpreting building sustainability behaviour over its life cycle span, and paves the road to a proper debate over rating systems imposed activities
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