Maximizing the Sustainability of Integrated Housing Recovery Efforts

An Environmental Impact Causal Model for improving the environmental performance of construction processes

“…The validity and robustness of this study has been previously acknowledged in the literature review (Gangolells et al, 2011;El-Anwar et al, 2010;Li et al, 2010). These impacts were classified into nine main categories: (1) atmospheric emissions, which includes impacts derived from the emission of greenhouse gases, VOCs and CFCs; (2) water emissions, including the dumping of pollutant products and contaminated water which may affect the quality of the surface water, groundwater or the sewage system; (3) waste generation, including human waste, excavated material generated during earthworks or excess off-cuts of construction materials; (4) soil alteration, which includes all the aspects related to land occupancy and potential adverse impacts due to the dumping of pollutant liquids; (5) resource consumption, mainly water, electricity, fuel and raw materials consumption resulting from the construction activities; (6) local issues, related to the potential impacts to the surrounding residents, e.g.…”

Maximising the net social benefit of the construction of post‐disaster alternative housing projects

“…Previous research developed metrics to enable objective quantification of the multiple and significant consequences of decisions on temporary housing and alternative housing for the socioeconomic welfare of displaced families (El-Anwar, El-Rayes, and Elnashai, 2008, 2010b, 2010c. These metrics include:…”

“…With regard to alternative housing, on the other hand, an optimisation model was developed to identify the optimal configuration of alternative housing projects considering the same set of objectives but with enhanced environmental assessment capabilities (El-Anwar, El-Rayes, and Elnashai, 2010b).…”

“…The socioeconomic model is designed to quantify the positive social and economic impacts of offering alternative housing units (instead of temporary housing) on displaced families. Previous research developed metrics to enable objective quantification of the multiple and significant consequences of decisions on temporary housing and alternative housing for the socioeconomic welfare of displaced families (El-Anwar, El-Rayes, and Elnashai, 2008Elnashai, , 2010bElnashai, , 2010c. These metrics include:…”

Multicriteria Decision-Making Method for Sustainable Site Location of Post-Disaster Temporary Housing in Urban Areas

“…All of these research studies have contributed to the development of TH, but only a few have considered TH optimization (El-Anwar et al 2009b) and sustainable construction (El-Anwar et al 2009c). The number of studies in which urban areas have been considered is also small compared to those dealing with rural areas.…”