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Developing assessment tool for new and retrofit residential building in West Bank, Palestine
| Resumo: | Developing countries have to introduce sustainability in the construction industry, especially in the residential buildings to solve their issues according to the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Construction in Developing Countries (2002). West Bank, Palestine, is a part of a developing country and a special case, suffering from occupation since 1967, and is in need for an urgent sustainable construction application. Therefore, the goal of this master thesis is to contribute to a better understanding about the concept of social sustainability in the residential building because it is the most important component of the sustainable housing. In order to pursue this goal, a framework to assess the societal performance of West Bank’s residential building is proposed. Assessing the sustainability in buildings is constantly evolving and differ from place to place. Because of that, the framework presented in this master thesis is above all, based on the sustainability indicators of international sustainability assessment methods (Code for Homes, LEED for Homes and SB Tool) and their applicability in the Palestinian context. As a next step this preliminary list of indicators was validated through interviews with professionals in the field. The next step was to rank each societal sustainability indicator according to their importance in the Palestinian context, by considering the opinion of a panel composed by experts and building occupants. For this purpose, two surveys to assess the opinion of the building construction experts and residents regarding the importance of the social sustainability indicators were conducted. Then, the importance of each indicator was defined using the AHP method. As a result, this research proposes a framework to assess the societal sustainability of West Bank, Palestine, buildings that is composed by twenty-one indicators distributed among six sustainability categories. |
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| Autores principais: | Ardda, Nisreen Mohammad |
| Assunto: | Building sustainability assessment methods Social sustainability Residential buildings Rating system Developing countries West Bank Palestine Construindo métodos de avaliação de sustentabilidade Sustentabilidade social Construção residencial Sistema de classificação Países em desenvolvimento Palestina |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Developing countries have to introduce sustainability in the construction industry, especially in the residential buildings to solve their issues according to the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Construction in Developing Countries (2002). West Bank, Palestine, is a part of a developing country and a special case, suffering from occupation since 1967, and is in need for an urgent sustainable construction application. Therefore, the goal of this master thesis is to contribute to a better understanding about the concept of social sustainability in the residential building because it is the most important component of the sustainable housing. In order to pursue this goal, a framework to assess the societal performance of West Bank’s residential building is proposed. Assessing the sustainability in buildings is constantly evolving and differ from place to place. Because of that, the framework presented in this master thesis is above all, based on the sustainability indicators of international sustainability assessment methods (Code for Homes, LEED for Homes and SB Tool) and their applicability in the Palestinian context. As a next step this preliminary list of indicators was validated through interviews with professionals in the field. The next step was to rank each societal sustainability indicator according to their importance in the Palestinian context, by considering the opinion of a panel composed by experts and building occupants. For this purpose, two surveys to assess the opinion of the building construction experts and residents regarding the importance of the social sustainability indicators were conducted. Then, the importance of each indicator was defined using the AHP method. As a result, this research proposes a framework to assess the societal sustainability of West Bank, Palestine, buildings that is composed by twenty-one indicators distributed among six sustainability categories. |
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