Evidence that the construction sector is aware of sustainability issues may be found in the large number of tools and methodologies that exist to perform sustainability evaluation. The great majority centre on environmental parameters and only in a few cases are economic and social components studied. Within the sector, it is the industrial building that is the least familiar with sustainability, in an area where tools and methodologies for practical applications hardly exist at all. A methodology for sustainability evaluation that is applied to industrial buildings is proposed in this work. It not only takes account of environmental parameters but also examines economic and social ones, in order to generate a sustainability index value for industrial buildings.
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May 2012
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May 01 2012
Sustainability index for industrial buildings
Jesús Cuadrado, D Eng;
Jesús Cuadrado, D Eng
Assistant Professor
UPV-EHU, ETSI, Bilbao School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Spain
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Eduardo Rojí, D Eng;
Eduardo Rojí, D Eng
Assistant Professor UPV-EHU
ETSI, Bilbao School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Bilbao, Spain
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José Tomás San José, D Eng;
José Tomás San José, D Eng
Senior Engineer at Tecnalia R&I
Assistant Professor UPV-EHU, ETSI, Bilbao School of Engineering, Department. of Science of Materials, Bilbo, Spain
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Juan Pedro Reyes, D Eng
Juan Pedro Reyes, D Eng
Senior Engineer
Tecnalia R&I
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Revision Received:
May 03 2010
Accepted:
March 17 2011
Online ISSN: 1751-7702
Print ISSN: 0965-0911
ICE Publishing: All rights reserved
2012
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Structures and Buildings (2012) 165 (5): 245–253.
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Revision Received:
May 03 2010
Accepted:
March 17 2011
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Cuadrado J, Rojí E, José JTS, Reyes JP (2012), "Sustainability index for industrial buildings". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Structures and Buildings, Vol. 165 No. 5 pp. 245–253, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/stbu.10.00029
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