The application of two sustainability assessment tools on a passive office in Flanders: a user-approach

Q4 Engineering

International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development Pub Date : 2014-10-02 DOI:10.1080/2093761X.2014.948101

E. Meex, G. Verbeeck

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Abstract

During the last decade, a large number of building sustainability assessment tools have been developed, with the aim of determining the sustainability level of buildings through a range of evaluation themes and criteria. As these tools are meant to contribute to the sustainability of building design, insights in the usability of these tools in practice is required. Therefore, we compared two frequently used sustainability assessment tools in Flanders, namely BREEAM-NL Building in Use for existing offices and Assessment of Office Buildings, on their degree of user-friendliness and applicability in a post-construction assessment. In this research paper, the outcome of this comparison is discussed. In general, the user-friendliness and applicability turned out to be quite good. However, the time and labour input needed might be a substantial threshold for new users. Further research will be done in the near future on the user-friendliness and applicability of such tools along the design process.

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两种可持续性评估工具在法兰德斯被动式办公室的应用:用户方法

在过去十年中，开发了大量的建筑可持续性评估工具，目的是通过一系列评估主题和标准来确定建筑物的可持续性水平。由于这些工具旨在促进建筑设计的可持续性，因此需要对这些工具在实践中的可用性有深入的了解。因此，我们比较了法兰德斯两种常用的可持续性评估工具，即BREEAM-NL现有办公室使用中的建筑和办公楼评估，比较了它们在施工后评估中的用户友好程度和适用性。在本文中，对这种比较的结果进行了讨论。总的来说，用户友好性和适用性是相当不错的。但是，对于新用户来说，所需的时间和人力投入可能是一个很大的门槛。在不久的将来，将进一步研究这些工具在设计过程中的用户友好性和适用性。

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International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development Engineering-Building and Construction

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development is the official publication of the Sustainable Building Research Center and serves as a resource to professionals and academics within the architecture and sustainability community. The International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development aims to support its academic community by disseminating studies on sustainable building technology, focusing on issues related to sustainable approaches in the construction industry to reduce waste and mass consumption, integration of advanced architectural technologies and environmentalism, sustainable building maintenance, life cycle cost (LCC), social issues, education and public policies relating to urban development and architecture .