Assessment of eco-rehabilitation plans: Case study ‘Richordi Berchet’ palace

Ismaeel, Walaa S.E.; Ali, Ahmed AbdelMonteleb M.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120857

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“…Thibodeau, Bataille, and Sie [22] indicate that for building renovation projects, LCA methodologies provide most building environmental assessment information. Ismaeel and Ali [23] address the environmental assessment of deep-renovation projects for historic buildings, considering the "Richordi Berchet" pilot study and comparing green building rating systems such as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system and environmental assessment methodologies such as LCA. Costantino, Benedetti, and Gulli [24] address the issue of circular economy in the construction sector by applying the paradigm of rebuilding to regenerate urban suburbs, using the digital twin strategy as a decision-making tool.…”

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Demolishing or Renovating? Life Cycle Analysis in the Design Process for Building Renovation: The ProGETonE Case

Bragadin,

Guardigli,

Calistri

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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It is well known that a large part of the existing European building stock needs to be renovated to increase structural and energy performance. Unfortunately, deep renovations come with high initial costs, and therefore, owners and real estate developers often prefer complete demolition and reconstruction. Both options depend on specific factors, and to select which option could be the closest to the optimal scenario, it is necessary to evaluate all environmental, social, and economic indicators. Life Cycle Analysis is of great significance to evaluate building sustainability, in particular through the comparison between different design alternatives. However, the life cycle impacts of the construction stage depend on selected materials and technologies that can be subject to change during the subsequent stages of the design process, i.e., moving from preliminary design to detailed design and execution plans. With the aim of understanding the role of LCA during the design process, the case study of “ProGETonE—Proactive Synergy of Integrated Efficient Technologies on Buildings’ Envelopes” has been addressed, leading to the observation that the impacts, in particular the global warming potential (GWP), raised significantly. Building Information Modelling (BIM) helped the information sharing and management of this project, which consists of the deep renovation and architectural reshaping of an existing student residence through the construction of integrated façade systems.

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Demolishing or Renovating? Life Cycle Analysis in the Design Process for Building Renovation: The ProGETonE Case

Bragadin,

Guardigli,

Calistri

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…Equally important, it accounts for any environmental impacts associated with incineration, landfilling or total deconstruction and demolition of the project including transportation to and from the site (Onat et al 2014). The avoided burden method can be applied to investigate the environmental benefit from material recovery, reuse and recycling activities (Ismaeel and Ali 2020).…”

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An integrated building information modelling-based environmental impact assessment framework

Ismaeel

Lotfy

2022

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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The application of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies faces many challenges, especially in developing countries. This problem was investigated in the existing literature and via a designed questionnaire among local practitioners. The reasons were mainly attributed to the seclusion of the EIA process across the project’s phases, as well as the complexity of the EIA procedures. Hence, the research argues that Building Information Modelling (BIM) applications can be the key to resolve several associated problems to EIA either directly, or indirectly by streamlining Environmental Management System (EMS). Thus, a keyword-based scientometric analysis was used to define parameters and interrelations and establish network analysis for a proposed BIM-based EIA framework. The proposed framework presents scoring schemes to support three types of assessments: the efficiency of applying BIM techniques for an EIA process (Score A), proper integration of BIM techniques for different EIA steps (Score I) and proper integration of BIM techniques across project phases (Score B). It also shows the interplay of points between the three schemes via a Sankey diagram. The proposed framework was applied to compare three major construction projects in a developing country, the case of Egypt to pinpoint areas of drawbacks. The results pinpointed poor application of advanced BIM models to support sustainability analysis for EIA studies. This is in addition to imbalance of applying BIM applications across different project phases, it was notably less pronounced for the operation and maintenance stage as well as end of life scenarios. Also, poor integration of BIM tools could not support decisions related to the mitigation step. Hence, applying 6-dimensional BIM model shall enable developing mitigation measures and shall support design optimization during building operation and end of life phase. This novel approach presents the required level of verification and quality control procedure needed by decision-makers and environmental engineers to perform EIA studies and pave the way for further related research. Graphical Abstract

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“…For the topic of the sustainability of materials and resources, some GBRSs offer a prescriptive set of guidelines, while others are based on performance evaluation [7,8]. The former is simpler for practitioners to apply because it is based on physical material attributes (area, weight, and volume) [9]. The latter is based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which scrutinizes all inputs and outputs for a material or product.…”

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The Dynamics of Sustainable Material Selection for Green-Certified Projects

Ismaeel

2023

Buildings

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Material selection is a challenging process in which several parameters should be considered for green-certified projects. Hence, this study investigates the dynamics of sustainable material selection (SMS) across the project life cycle using system thinking. A dynamic model was developed based on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design where relevant environmental categories and credits were represented, and their dependency coefficients (DCs) were computed. This pinpointed the effect of SMS on the point-accrual pattern across project phases, showing that the high leverage points were demonstrated for the operation phase. The result showed that SMS extended beyond the efficient use of materials, which indicated a DC of 100% in the Materials and Resources category to affect other sustainable categories, i.e., the indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency, and sustainability of the project site comprised 68.8%, 57.6%, and 50% of DCs, respectively. Thus, optimal SMS could earn the project 48% of the total possible points, putting it in the ‘Certified’ level. Accordingly, the proposed model can be used to evaluate the level of certification as well as the building performance therein.

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Assessment of eco-rehabilitation plans: Case study ‘Richordi Berchet’ palace

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Demolishing or Renovating? Life Cycle Analysis in the Design Process for Building Renovation: The ProGETonE Case

Demolishing or Renovating? Life Cycle Analysis in the Design Process for Building Renovation: The ProGETonE Case

An integrated building information modelling-based environmental impact assessment framework

The Dynamics of Sustainable Material Selection for Green-Certified Projects

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