Social challenge/ impact linked to:

Co-creation phase linked to:

E) Co-monitoring

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

• Project area

Data source and input type

• Indoor air quality 
• Building location 
• Estimated outdoor air quality surrounding the target buildings (O3, CO and PM2.5)
• The methods to monitor air quality surrounding a certain building block smaller than neighbourhood level needs to be considered
• From 2015, examples of wireless sensor networks that have permitted the quantification of pollutants at the sub-neighbourhood scale (Moltchanov et al., 2015).

Connection with SDGs

• Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
• Goal 13: Climate action

Required Data

• Indoor air quality 
• Building location 

Expected Outputs

• Estimated indoor air quality  

Calculation methods

• Estimation of indoor air quality by using outdoor air quality: using the existing research on the correlation between them
• Or place the sensor to measure Indoor air quality

Level of expertise required

• Depending on the methods

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