TITLE:
Building Sustainable Score (BSS)—A Hybrid Process Approach for Sustainable Building Assessment in China
AUTHORS:
Jiani Liu, Grace K. C. Ding, Bijan Samali
KEYWORDS:
Building Sustainability; Hybrid Process Approach; LCA; AHP
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Power and Energy Engineering,
Vol.1 No.5,
November
26,
2013
ABSTRACT: Sustainable building in China has gained
attention both domestically and abroad. Despite the fast increase in sustainable
assessment tools developed locally or adopted from overseas, there are still criticisms
about the current situation of weak implementation and lack of comprehensive
consideration. The lack of consideration of economic and social aspects or
building performance on whole building life cycle all lead to departure from
the true meaning of sustainable development. And lack of participation on the
part of stakeholders makes it too theoretical to be carried out. This research
aims to develop a model to address this problem. This research started with
review of current sustainable assessment tools applied in China. As the
assessment indicators have clear regional disparities, and almost no current
tool considers all three pillars of environmental, economic and social in
building life cycle. An industry survey was therefore designed for generation
of indicators at different building stages, and personal interviews relevant to
different occupation in building industry were conducted to complement the questionnaire survey. After that, the model Building Sustainable
Score (BSS) was developed based on the stakeholders’ participation. Finally,
the model is verified by a case study.