Evaluation of sustainability indicators of industrial buildings focused on petrochemical projects

Heravi, Gholamreza; Fathi, Medya; Faeghi, Shiva

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.133

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“…On the other hand, Higham et al [41] found that economic criteria are perceived as more important than the social or environmental factors in housing projects' feasibility stage investment decisions. Actually, as it was noted by Heravi et al [2] and Shen et al [63] that the social dimension of sustainability is to some extent challenging. Although there is an agreement on indicators such as cultural effects and public related issues, as social ones, some of them such as employment, safety, and indoor air quality are sometimes considered economic and environmental indicators [2].…”

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“…The construction industry has a long history in developing and using of indicators, alongside of many general efforts to develop sustainable development indicators [23]. However, social and economic indicators are often neglected in the literature [2,9,24] and, as Berardi [25] notes, the social aspect is the most ignored dimension of sustainability.…”

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Ranking of Sustainability Indicators for Assessment of the New Housing Development Projects: Case of the Baltic States

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Sustainable development is inconceivable without healthy real estate market. A housing project can be regarded as sustainable only when all the dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, and social) are dealt with. There has been an increased interest in using sustainability indicators for evaluating the impacts of the new development projects. Although international literature is rich in sustainability assessments, there are no tools developed for assessment of new residential projects in the specific context of the Baltic States. Therefore, the aim of this article is to fill this gap and to propose an integrated, hierarchically structured system of sustainability indicators to be used for assessment of the new housing development projects. This aim is achieved through accomplishing three objectives. First, based on a review of literature related to assessing building project performance and sustainable development in construction, the paper proposes an original hierarchically structured system of sustainability indicators suitable for the Baltic context. Second, based on a survey of experts, significances of criteria are estimated by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Finally, paper proposes recommendations to government authorities and real estate developers as to how to enhance the performance of new residential projects according to the principles of sustainability.

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“…Over the past decades, sustainability indicators underwent a significant advance [15,33]. Since the existing benchmarking methods adopted ex-post evaluation, most sustainability indicators utilized ex-post lagging indicators that track construction project performance outcomes after project completion.…”

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“…Most benchmarking approaches use lagging indicators, which typically measure performance outcomes after project completion, to assess cost, schedule, changes, safety, and productivity, the traditional goals of project management. However, the existing benchmarking studies of construction projects [15][16][17] have recently paid attention to sustainability issues of a construction project, focusing on environmental sustainability. Efforts to develop effective sustainability measures to evaluate the organizational capability and performance required to meet green requirements in the construction industry, such as requirements for energy efficiency, renewable energy use, and CO 2 emission, are recent [15,17,18].…”

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“…However, the existing benchmarking studies of construction projects [15][16][17] have recently paid attention to sustainability issues of a construction project, focusing on environmental sustainability. Efforts to develop effective sustainability measures to evaluate the organizational capability and performance required to meet green requirements in the construction industry, such as requirements for energy efficiency, renewable energy use, and CO 2 emission, are recent [15,17,18]. Furthermore, existing sustainability studies in project benchmarking focus more on developing indicators for environmental sustainability for building or infrastructure projects than for industrial facilities projects [7,19].…”

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Benchmarking Sustainability Practices Use throughout Industrial Construction Project Delivery

Yun

Jung

2017

Sustainability

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Despite the efforts for sustainability studies in building and infrastructure construction, the sustainability issues in industrial construction remain understudied. Further, few studies evaluate sustainability and benchmark sustainability issues in industrial construction from a management perspective. This study presents a phase-based benchmarking framework for evaluating sustainability practices use focusing on industrial facilities project. Based on the framework, this study quantifies and assesses sustainability practices use, and further sorts the results by project phase and major project characteristics, including project type, project nature, and project delivery method. The results show that sustainability practices were implemented higher in the construction and startup phases relative to other phases, with a very broad range. An assessment by project type and project nature showed significant differences in sustainability practices use, but no significant difference in practices use by project delivery method. This study contributes to providing a benchmarking method for sustainability practices in industrial facilities projects at the project phase level. This study also discusses and provides an application of phase-based benchmarking for sustainability in industrial construction.

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Sustainability assessment of demolition based on quantitative external costs

Li,

Ueda

2024

Structural Concrete

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Rapid urbanization brings us challenges, but it is meant to bring us well‐being. The short lifetime of buildings and urban renewal policies have led to the demand for demolition. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the benefits of implementing an advanced demolition system and to fill the sustainability assessment gap in the demolition sector. This approach will help reduce obstacles to conducting sustainable demolition. To achieve this goal, an assessment system based on external costs was built, which mainly focused on the costs of damage due to global warming and environmental pollution. A case study employing two advanced demolition systems was used to show how the assessment works and the effects of demolition. According to the assessment results, the total external damage for the two advanced demolition systems is 37.6% and 19.6% of that of the conventional demolition method. Excellent waste management causes damage due to global warming in only 9.4% of conventional demolition projects, but noise impacts are still a crucial issue in the demolition field, as they contribute to 74.4% of the total damage. Based on the case study results, the benefits of sustainable demolition and the future of demolition are revealed. Further development should be sought for future demolition through new design theory or new technology.

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Evaluation of sustainability indicators of industrial buildings focused on petrochemical projects

Cited by 85 publications

References 41 publications

Ranking of Sustainability Indicators for Assessment of the New Housing Development Projects: Case of the Baltic States

Ranking of Sustainability Indicators for Assessment of the New Housing Development Projects: Case of the Baltic States

Benchmarking Sustainability Practices Use throughout Industrial Construction Project Delivery

Sustainability assessment of demolition based on quantitative external costs

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