Greenbuild: An Analytical Tool to Support Decision Making in Green Building Design

Abstract:

Buildings are one of the largest contributors to negative environmental impacts because of the high consumption of energy and materials during their life cycle. The present work proposes a framework, able to make available information, both of general materials and specific commercial solutions; moreover, it overcomes the current state of the art, since, although focused on environmental sustainability, provides the opportunity to compare simultaneously several choices, also considering their properties and characteristics. Based on the proposed methodology, a tool structure and workflow are presented. The main potentiality is represented by the possibility of executing sustainability assessment already in the early stages of building design using the proposed tool when design choices significantly contribute to the global environmental impact of solutions. A validation procedure to quantitatively evaluate the main tool's limits and potentialities is proposed.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 919)
• Pages: 199-209
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-1ich7x
• Online since: May 2022
• Authors: Federica Cappelletti, Roberto Menghi, Marta Rossi*, Michele Germani
• Keywords: Eco-Design, Environmental Impact, Environmental Sustainability, Knowledge

References

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2015.08.006