Green Buildings Case Study Analysis Using AHP and MAUT in Sustainability and Costs

Doczy, Ryan; AbdelRazig, Yassir

doi:10.1061/(asce)ae.1943-5568.0000252

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“…Unlike with current methods, the developed approach combines AHP and MAUT to identify the significant influence of the identified main and sub-criteria in selecting lighting systems for residential buildings from a design point of view. Combining AHP and MAUT is relatively new in the selection process of complex problems e.g., [14]. AHP and MAUT are utilized to develop the proposed approach by applying the two techniques, based on experts' opinions, across the community services organizations in the third and fourth stages described above.…”

Section: Application Of Ahp and Mautmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A midpoint value, which has a utility score of 0.5 is then identified by the experts. The midpoint value is a halfway value between the most-and least-preferred values [13,14]. After the identification of the midpoint value, 'quarter point' value, having a utility score of 0.25, is identified by the experts, which is a halfway value between the midpoint and least preferred values.…”

Section: Measuring the Performance Of The Identified Alternativesusinmentioning

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Analytic Hierarchy Process & Multi Attribute Utility Theory Based Approach for the Selection of Lighting Systems in Residential Buildings: A Case Study

2018

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This paper presents an approach developed for selecting lighting systems in residential buildings using an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Multi Criteria Decision Making Technique (MCDMT). The developed approach considers four selection criteria of lighting systems: life-cycle cost, illumination, environmental performance, and life-span. The criteria of selection, along with the most widely used lighting systems in residential buildings, were determined through questionnaire surveys with suppliers, maintenance managers, and lighting experts. The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Multi Attribute Utility Theory were utilized to assess the significant influence of the identified main and sub-criteria on the selection process, from the design point of view. The developed approach was tested on a real case project in selecting the lighting system for aresidential building in Saudi Arabia. The obtained results show that the life-cycle cost and illumination proprieties, followed by the service life were found to be the most influential measures in the selection process. The results also show that Light-Emitting Diode(LED) lighting systems prove to bear the highest initial cost while sustaining the best overall performance.in finalizing the selection of a lighting system forongoing projects can cause cost-effective projects to waste time and money. Delays and/or cost overruns affect business portfolios, since theyleads to delays in other activities, and cause disruptions inthe projects globally.The selection of a new lighting system, or replacing an old one, is usually carried out based on personal experience, and is therefore not subject to the needs and constraints that actually govern the selection of the best system based on the evaluation of performance against certain measures.The literature reveals that over the years, a wide range of methods and techniques havebeen introduced to facilitate the selection process where multi criteria of selections are considered. There are several studies in the literature for selecting lighting systems in buildings. Most of these studies have focused on technical aspects of the selection, such as efficiency, safety, visual comfort, satisfaction, and energy consumption, etc. e.g., [3,5,6].Since its introduction in 1980s, AHP alone, or combined with other techniques, has beenextensively utilized to facilitate the selection process in many complex applications in the building industry. AHP divides a complicated problem into a simple and manageable hierarchy of factors [3]. For example, in selecting lighting systems, [7] proposed an AHP-based framework which consists of various criteria for the installation of the median barriers for national highways. The selection criteria considered in the study were regional equity, safety, efficient economy, and installation possibilities, while giving high priority to safety. Lv et al. [3] also introduced an AHP-based evaluation system for an efficient lighting project. The system accounts for public policies combined with evaluation facto...

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Section: Application Of Ahp and Mautmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Measuring the Performance Of The Identified Alternativesusinmentioning

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Analytic Hierarchy Process & Multi Attribute Utility Theory Based Approach for the Selection of Lighting Systems in Residential Buildings: A Case Study

2018

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“…Based on a literature review and identification of the main areas of focus in the green building materials industry (Akadiri et al, 2013;Doczy & Abdelrazig, 2017), we aggregated factors of the same type and ranked items that the experts believed are important in the order of their proportion. The present study constructed the AHP hierarchical structure, which includes the dimensions of "safety," "use of natural resources," "usability," and "energy efficiency."…”

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“…These materials' process of obtainment, product manufacturing, usage, and recycling following usage also must not harm human health. Based on health and environmental needs and regulatory trends (Doczy & Abdelrazig, 2017), green building materials are a contemporary trend that cannot be ignored. This research is a case study of the functions of green building materials and explores the practical experiences of the use of green building materials in public construction in order to examine the functionality of green building materials and whether their market usage has become universal.…”

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Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Investigate the Functions of Green Building Materials

Shen¹,

Lin²,

Shie³

2017

Topics in Economics, Business and Management (EBM)

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The present study examines customer acceptance of the use of green building materials to replace traditional building materials in the context of the global trend towards sustainable development. To ensure the performance of green building materials, the study constructed a certification system for green building materials by developing suitable measures for the "safety," "use of natural resources," "energy efficiency," and "usability" of green building materials. For "safety," the research proposed the concepts of "natural building materials" and "chemical building materials." For "use of natural resources," the concepts of "abundant resources" and "green processes" were proposed. For "energy efficiency," the concepts of "resource recycling" and "resource reduction" were proposed. For "usability," the concept of "high-performance building materials" was proposed. These dimensions were used to collect data in order to develop the most appropriate usage based on business cultures in the green building materials industry. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings.

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“…Regarding environmental sustainability, there are two broad elements that are explicitly or implicitly present in most of the previous studies, namely the reduction in the use of materials and energy [13][14][15][16]18,19,21,[35][36][37][38][39] and the reduction in the company s emissions [13,15,16,[18][19][20][21][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

André

Valenciano-Salazar

2020

Sustainability

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We propose addressing an organization’s adoption of an environmental certification as a multicriteria problem considering environmental sustainability as well as economic and strategic aspects. Our methodological approach uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which we use in an empirical application to analyze the adoption decision of several Costa Rican firms and institutions. Firstly, we select a set of economic, strategic, and environmental criteria that seem relevant for the organization’s direction. We select these criteria according to our literature review and a series of face-to-face interviews with scholars and companies’ managers. As an environmental certification, we focus on Carbon Neutral (CN), which is a domestic certification aimed at reducing or offsetting carbon emissions. For the sake of comparison, we also consider ISO 14001, which is a well-known international standard aimed at compliance with environmental norms. We conduct the AHP analysis using the answers given by 24 companies and institutions, which in aggregate terms, give CN a higher score than ISO 14001. This result is mainly due to the fact that CN ranks above ISO 14001 when attending to environmental sustainability, although ISO 14001 tends to be preferred in economic and strategic terms.

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Green Buildings Case Study Analysis Using AHP and MAUT in Sustainability and Costs

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Analytic Hierarchy Process & Multi Attribute Utility Theory Based Approach for the Selection of Lighting Systems in Residential Buildings: A Case Study

Analytic Hierarchy Process & Multi Attribute Utility Theory Based Approach for the Selection of Lighting Systems in Residential Buildings: A Case Study

Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Investigate the Functions of Green Building Materials

Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

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