Artículo
Development of a plug-in to support sustainability assessment in the decision-making of a building envelope refurbishment
Autor/es | Soust-Verdaguer, Bernardette
Gutiérrez, José Antonio Llatas, Carmen |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I (ETSA) |
Fecha de publicación | 2023-06-06 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-10-19 |
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Resumen | Existing studies provide evidence that buildings and the construction sector are the largest consumers of natural resources and carry the greatest responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reverse this ... Existing studies provide evidence that buildings and the construction sector are the largest consumers of natural resources and carry the greatest responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reverse this situation, future challenges involve utilising the lowest amount of resources possible. To this end, building refurbishment has become a crucial strategy, given its potential to improve operational energy efficiency and to extend the life span of existing building stock, thereby reducing the environmental impact while also providing social and economic benefits to our cities. Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) has become one of the scientific community’s most widely recognised methodologies for the evaluation of the social, economic, and environmental dimensions (triple bottom line), as it assesses sustainability using quantitative metrics. However, the implementation of this methodology to support the refurbishment process at the project stage in building design tools, such as BIM, remains scarce. One of the main obstacles lies in the difficulties of accessing building information, given that the system boundaries only cover new materials and products. Hence, this study proposes a BIM plug-in developed to support multi-dimensional building material selection in the early design steps based on the LCSA of a building during the refurbishment stage and validates its application in a case study. The results show the viability of using this tool during the early design stages and demonstrate the consistency of the results for evaluating various material and product alternatives for the refurbishment of the envelope system of a multi-family residential building. This study contributes towards the integration of decision-making by providing real-time assessment of a building envelope. |
Agencias financiadoras | Junta de Andalucía European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) Agencia Estatal de Investigación. España |
Identificador del proyecto | P20_00541
TED2021-129542B-I00 MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 US.20-03 |
Cita | Soust-Verdaguer, B., Gutiérrez, J.A. y Llatas, C. (2023). Development of a plug-in to support sustainability assessment in the decision-making of a building envelope refurbishment. Buildings, 13(6) (1472). https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061472. |
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