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Building sustainability assessment methods for healthcare: proposal of the list of indicators and system of weights suitable for the Brazilian context
| Resumo: | The indication of climate change has increased the necessity for actions to avoid severe consequences for future generations, taking into consideration the activities that have a substantial impact in the natural environment. The recognition of the benefits of the sustainability and energy efficiency led to an involvement in a global scale to the implications associated with it, which has resulted in the development of several methods to estimate and rate the building performance. Healthcare buildings, functional and dynamic structures, are focused on the healing process and comfort of its users, have a significant role in the society and an emerging need of having a greater performance in order to meet the requires from its strategic planning (cost reductions, regulatory compliance, social responsibility and performance improvement) by integrating sustainability into facility’s operations. This research addresses critical issues regarding the sustainability of the Brazilian healthcare sector, by analysing the suitability of the most common international healthcare building sustainability assessment methods to the social, economic and environmental contexts. It presents the current situation of the healthcare environment and its impact (energy, water and waste) in Brazil. Additionally, it analyses the main sustainability assessment methods developed for this type of building by comparing the list of indicators and identifying the possibilities and potentialities for adapting to the Brazilian context. Focused on the adaptation of the Portuguese (HBSAtool-PT) list of indicators and weighting system to assess the sustainability of healthcare buildings to the Brazilian healthcare buildings. For this purpose, a survey to assess the opinion of building construction experts regarding the importance of sustainability indicators was conducted. A weighting system for the proposed indicators was developed using the AHP method. As a result, this research proposes a framework to assess the sustainability of healthcare buildings in Brazil composed by forty-eight indicators, distributed among twenty-three categories. |
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| Autores principais: | Costa, Marília Neves Fonseca Azevedo da |
| Assunto: | Healthcare building Sustainable construction Building sustainability assessment method Sustainable certification Rating systems Edifícios hospitalares Construção sustentável Métodos de avaliação para edificações sustentáveis Certificação sustentável Sistema de classificação |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| 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: | The indication of climate change has increased the necessity for actions to avoid severe consequences for future generations, taking into consideration the activities that have a substantial impact in the natural environment. The recognition of the benefits of the sustainability and energy efficiency led to an involvement in a global scale to the implications associated with it, which has resulted in the development of several methods to estimate and rate the building performance. Healthcare buildings, functional and dynamic structures, are focused on the healing process and comfort of its users, have a significant role in the society and an emerging need of having a greater performance in order to meet the requires from its strategic planning (cost reductions, regulatory compliance, social responsibility and performance improvement) by integrating sustainability into facility’s operations. This research addresses critical issues regarding the sustainability of the Brazilian healthcare sector, by analysing the suitability of the most common international healthcare building sustainability assessment methods to the social, economic and environmental contexts. It presents the current situation of the healthcare environment and its impact (energy, water and waste) in Brazil. Additionally, it analyses the main sustainability assessment methods developed for this type of building by comparing the list of indicators and identifying the possibilities and potentialities for adapting to the Brazilian context. Focused on the adaptation of the Portuguese (HBSAtool-PT) list of indicators and weighting system to assess the sustainability of healthcare buildings to the Brazilian healthcare buildings. For this purpose, a survey to assess the opinion of building construction experts regarding the importance of sustainability indicators was conducted. A weighting system for the proposed indicators was developed using the AHP method. As a result, this research proposes a framework to assess the sustainability of healthcare buildings in Brazil composed by forty-eight indicators, distributed among twenty-three categories. |
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