TY - JOUR
T1 - A proposal for environmental indicators towards industrial building sustainable assessment
AU - San-José, José T.
AU - Garrucho, Isaac
AU - Losada, Ramón
AU - Cuadrado, Jesús
PY - 2007/4/1
Y1 - 2007/4/1
N2 - The construction sector carries out a very important role in the development of society. It is a basic component of economic activity, having a great influence on employment generation and country growth. The sector generates appreciable environmental changes and effects throughout the planet, leading to gradual exhaustion of natural resources and contamination of basic elements, such as air, water and soil. Recently, there have been advances in favour of more environmentally friendly buildings. Basically, sustainable construction has centred on residential and office buildings. It could be said that there is a lack of sustainability in the construction of industrial buildings, as they present characteristics which differ from other building typologies. This article aims to assess and analyze industrial building environmental effects, and considers a set of green study criteria, such as: location, materials, energy and water consumption, construction and deconstruction characteristics, and waste management in industrial building. At the same time, the studies are hierarchically structured into different assessment elements, such as: criteria, subcriteria and, finally, indicators, comprising the assessment model.
AB - The construction sector carries out a very important role in the development of society. It is a basic component of economic activity, having a great influence on employment generation and country growth. The sector generates appreciable environmental changes and effects throughout the planet, leading to gradual exhaustion of natural resources and contamination of basic elements, such as air, water and soil. Recently, there have been advances in favour of more environmentally friendly buildings. Basically, sustainable construction has centred on residential and office buildings. It could be said that there is a lack of sustainability in the construction of industrial buildings, as they present characteristics which differ from other building typologies. This article aims to assess and analyze industrial building environmental effects, and considers a set of green study criteria, such as: location, materials, energy and water consumption, construction and deconstruction characteristics, and waste management in industrial building. At the same time, the studies are hierarchically structured into different assessment elements, such as: criteria, subcriteria and, finally, indicators, comprising the assessment model.
KW - Construction sector
KW - Indicators
KW - Industrial building
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34248363560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13504500709469716
DO - 10.1080/13504500709469716
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34248363560
SN - 1350-4509
VL - 14
SP - 160
EP - 173
JO - International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
JF - International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
IS - 2
ER -
