Social challenge/ impact linked to: | Environmental |
Co-creation phase linked to: | A) Understanding & establishing co-creation |
Level of importance | 1 - High Importance / must have |
Description | Degree to which buildings are designed to be environmentally friendly with respect to energy efficiency, water consumption, waste production, indoor environmental quality, and implementation of NBS (unitless value). Environmental design is a broad concept concerning the structural, design and systemic features of buildings defining their impact on their environment. It is related to the concept of green buildings, which refers to environmentally sustainable design, construction, operation, maintenance and end of life of buildings. |
Scale as linked to D2.2 framework | |
| - Building energy efficiency
- Indoor air quality
- Building location
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Connection with SDGs | - Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
- Goal 13: Climate action
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Required Data | - Energy efficiency (using secondary data or survey)
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Expected Outputs | - Annual measurements
- The score of the building quality
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Calculation methods | - The area is divided into buildings, groups of buildings or blocks that represent similar building stock, as seen suitable. Each component is assessed on its environmental design considering incorporated environmental design considering parameters listed in Table 1. The building(s) being assessed are scored from 0 to 1 with respect to each parameter.
- Parameter: Energy efficiency
- Methods to consider (examples):
- Existing national energy efficiency rating - need to consider making comparable measurement over five cities
- Survey on- Improved insulation/ Reflecting windows, Improved ventilation/ Heat exchangers in ventilation/Smart lighting, smart electronics/ Renewable electricity (solar/wind)/ Heat pumps
- Scoring: 0 points: No design incorporated / 0.5 points: some measures taken / 1 point: Good measures taken
- Parameter: Indoor air quality
- Methods to consider (examples):
- Estimation of indoor air quality by using outdoor air quality: using the existing research on correlation between them
- measurement on: Indoor air quality
- Scoring: 0 points: No design incorporated / 0.5 points: some measures taken / 1 point: Good measures taken
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Level of expertise required | |
Links and references | - Doan, D. T., Ghaffarianhoseini, A., Naismith, N., Zhang, T., Ghaffarianhoseini, A., & Tookey, J. (2017). A critical comparison of green building rating systems. Building and Environment, 123, 243–260.
- Sharifi, A., & Murayama, A. (2013). A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 38, 73–87.
- Sharifi, A., & Murayama, A. (2014). Neighborhood sustainability assessment in action: Cross-evaluation of three assessment systems and their cases from the US, the UK, and Japan. Building and Environment, 72, 243–258
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