With reference to the sustainability of buildings and building stock, the paper introduces an innovative user-friendly procedure to support designers in assessing building components and services, fulfilling specific performance requirements. Such a procedure has been developed by the Authors within a research program sponsored by the Region of Lombardy and coordinated by the Milan Polytechnic Foundation together with CIS-E-Milan. It is intended to be applied to newly designed and to existing buildings as well and it uses the following indicators as a support: (1) technological/technical quality; (2) environmental sustainability; (3) energy performance; (4) engineering design; (5) operational quality. In addition, the benefit-cost r...
With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concern...
With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concern...
Nowadays rating systems to assess the sustainability of the built environment are available worldwi...
With reference to the sustainability of buildings and building stock, the paper introduces an innova...
Although sustainable building is a multidimensional concept, attention to the issue often focuses so...
Construction industry is one of the most important European economical sectors, but it still relies ...
The main objective of this work is to develop a sustainability assessment tool to assess the sustai...
The multidimensional concept of sustainable building is often related solely to environmental indica...
The purpose of a sustainability assessment is to gather and report information for during different ...
Over last 15 years it has been increasingly important to understand the sustainability performance o...
Literature review shows that there is no standard method to assess buildings’ sustainability neithe...
In this paper the initiative “sustainability-open” will be introduced. The aim of the initiative is ...
International research has confirmed that the built environment is the most promising sector for a r...
Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of s...
Recently, Level(s) has been developed by the European Commission as a common EU framework to assess ...
With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concern...
With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concern...
Nowadays rating systems to assess the sustainability of the built environment are available worldwi...
With reference to the sustainability of buildings and building stock, the paper introduces an innova...
Although sustainable building is a multidimensional concept, attention to the issue often focuses so...
Construction industry is one of the most important European economical sectors, but it still relies ...
The main objective of this work is to develop a sustainability assessment tool to assess the sustai...
The multidimensional concept of sustainable building is often related solely to environmental indica...
The purpose of a sustainability assessment is to gather and report information for during different ...
Over last 15 years it has been increasingly important to understand the sustainability performance o...
Literature review shows that there is no standard method to assess buildings’ sustainability neithe...
In this paper the initiative “sustainability-open” will be introduced. The aim of the initiative is ...
International research has confirmed that the built environment is the most promising sector for a r...
Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of s...
Recently, Level(s) has been developed by the European Commission as a common EU framework to assess ...
With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concern...
With society turning increasingly to sustainable development, sharper demands are being made concern...
Nowadays rating systems to assess the sustainability of the built environment are available worldwi...