Sustainability assessments of buildings / / edited by Umberto Berardi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Berardi, Umberto,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 pages) :; illustrations

International research has confirmed that the built environment is the most promising sector for a rapid transition to sustainability. In this scenario, many examples of sustainable urban environments are showing the advantages of sustainability. Meanwhile, an increasing request for tools to assess their sustainability is recorded. The assessment of sustainability of the built environment is an essential step toward its promotion. However, large difficulties exist creating useful and measurable assessment indicators since sustainability is time- and location-dependent. Meanwhile, the need to assess both products and processes for sustainable buildings has been considered particularly important for a sector as inertial as that of the built environment. This books contains ten recently published papers in the Special Issue about "Sustainability assessments of buildings." The demand for this Special Issue raised from the floor, as more and more papers dealing with this topic were submitted to Sustainability in the last few months. The need to collect the recent research in this field became evident, and the respond to the call showed the high attention of the scientific community towards this topic. A selection of ten papers among those published in the special issue will guide the reader thorough the variety of approaches in sustainability assessments of buildings and their main challenges.

Table of Contents

About the Special Issue Editor -- Preface to "Sustainability Assessments of Buildings" -- Elena Bernardi, Salvatore Carlucci, Cristina Cornaro and Rolf André Bohne An Analysis of the Most Adopted Rating Systems for Assessing the Environmental Impact of Buildings Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(7), 1226; doi: 10.3390/su9071226 -- Yan Ning, Yadi Li, Shuangshuang Yang and Chuanjing Ju Exploring Socio-Technical Features of Green Interior Design of Residential Buildings: Indicators, Interdependence and Embeddedness Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(1), 33; doi: 10.3390/su9010033 -- Rui Jiang and Rongrong Li Decomposition and Decoupling Analysis of Life-Cycle Carbon Emission in China's Building Sector Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(5), 793; doi: 10.3390/su9050793 -- Vidushini Siva, Thomas Hoppe and Mansi Jain Green Buildings in Singapore; Analyzing a Frontrunner's Sectoral Innovation System Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(6), 919; doi: 10.3390/su9060919 -- Joseph Amoako-Attah and Ali B-Jahromi The Impact of Different Weather Files on London Detached Residential Building Performance-Deterministic, Uncertainty, and Sensitivity Analysis on CIBSE TM48 and CIBSE TM49 Future Weather Variables Using CIBSE TM52 as Overheating Criteria Reprinted from: Sustainability 2016, 8(11), 1194; doi: 10.3390/su8111194 -- Jian Yao and Rongyue Zheng Stochastic Characteristics of Manual Solar Shades and their Influence on Building Energy Performance Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(6), 1070; doi: 10.3390/su9061070 -- Li Zhao and Zhengnan Zhou Developing a Rating System for Building Energy Efficiency Based on In Situ Measurement in China Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(2), 208; doi: 10.3390/su9020208 -- Guangdong Wu, Kaifeng Duan, Jian Zuo, Xianbo Zhao and Daizhong Tang Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Public Rental Housing Community Based on a Hybrid Method of AHP-Entropy Weight and Cloud Model Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(4), 603; doi: 10.3390/su9040603 -- Young-Sun Jeong Assessment of Alternative Scenarios for CO2 Reduction Potential in the Residential Building Sector Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(3), 394; doi: 10.3390/su9030394 -- Patrizia Lombardi, Francesca Abastante, Sara Torabi Moghadam and Jacopo Toniolo Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems for Future Urban Energy Retrofitting Scenarios Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9(7), 1252; doi: 10.3390/su9071252.