Sustainable Building Plan-Design, Construction, Performance, and Renovation Criteria

Abstract

Published data or available literature on sustainable building plan-design, construction, performance, and renovation criteria have covered some stages or some parts of each stage. These data usually have been published partially in many different papers―there have not been any papers that published these data together. Hence, this paper aims to collectively review these data and publish them together. The collection and review of these data were carried out by our twenty-five team members who specialized in sustainable urban, architectural, and civil engineering and construction management. The gathered and reviewed outputs were combined and validated based on a general group consensus. This consensus decision-making proceeded through two major group meetings with several follow-up meetings. The first major meeting was to combine and improve the gathered reviewed sustainable building criteria for Cambodia. The second major meeting was to validate the improved reviewed sustainable building criteria for Cambodia. The several follow-up meetings were to discuss the relevance and importance of the validated data “criteria and their classifications and descriptions” in all stages and more focused on their importance and applicability to Cambodia. The collective reviewed data in this paper would be useful to researchers in the fields. They could also be useful collective knowledge and information for policymakers from governmental agencies and development partners, particularly for sustainable building and construction companies.

The Consensus Planning and Design Criteria for Sustainable Buildings in Cambodia

“…The materials used for this research are gathered data on planning and design criteria for sustainable buildings printed here [11] as data descriptor. There data were resulted from reviewing literature that are relevant and available.…”

“…Therefore, effective planning and design are the sustainable building goals at the early stage towards reducing or eliminating environmental impacts. The gathered and reviewed sustainable building planning and design criteria, which were initially posted here [11], are summarily shown in Table 1.…”

“…As shown in Table 1, the finalized reviewed criteria for sustainable building planning and design were 116 in total and classified by 13 categories. The descriptions of these criteria were posted here [11] as Data Descriptor.…”

“…As we know building sustainability criteria developments are not easy tasks, especially while research outputs are currently limited in Cambodia. This shows a missed scientific contribution to criteria developments for sustainable building assessment in Cambodia while these are a lot in other developed countries around the world [11]. The lack of scientific results is considered missed an important input because the research generally provides useful information, including verifying the related context to the topic, which is completely useful to policy makers, as well as the government committee to use as evidence and baseline for making decision.…”

Overview of Risk Analysis as a Reach of Sustainable Construction

“…The sustainable construction project can be reached by an effectively and acceptably method that is accepted by all participarts on that project. It can be happened by managing risk with considering safety at the design and planning stages, building efficient communication between both designer and constructor, also make the effective and safety management planning during the contruction period [22]. Risk management is an important tool to achieve sustainable development, this is because risk management is an important key to maximizing activities in achieving sustainable development goals [4] [23].…”