TITLE:
Development an Adaptive Environmental Assessment Method for Buildings
AUTHORS:
Amal Kamal Mohamed Shamseldin
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Assessment Methods of Buildings, Spatial Variables, Temporal Variables, Natural Periodical, Sequential, and Sudden Variables, Adaptability
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research,
Vol.4 No.1,
March
15,
2016
ABSTRACT: The idea behind this work is developing an adaptive method for the environmental assessment of
buildings, to configure different versions according to the variables affecting them (spatial, temporal
and associated with building characteristics) to suit different evaluated projects. This method
may be applied using an electronic tool, which is in a development stage. Amending different
assessment versions of the adaptive method is done by including the variables effect, according to
set of steps, such as modifying the formulation of the assessment items, adjusting their estimation
weights, and amending their achievement evaluation levels and their returned scores. When using
the adaptive method, the assessment result of a building using a certain version differs from the
results using other versions, even in the same country, so configuring an appropriate version due
to the variables affecting the assessment helps getting more accurate results than the ones currently
provided. The main goal of that research is to introduce the adaptive method that is proposed
to ensure a fairer assessment results from the perspective of Green Architecture, and allow
a more credible and accuracy of results comparison according to the environmental performance
of buildings. The researcher analyzed the different main features she used in developing the adaptive
method, the Comparative aspects between it and the current assessment methods, and the
expected reached advantages from its usage. The paper arrived to the importance of adapting the
environmental assessment of buildings according to the different affecting variables, and recommended
developing the adaptive method and its tool to the stage of application to benefit its advantages.