http://www2.fau.usp.br/cursos/graduacao/arq_urbanismo/disciplinas/aut0221/Material_de_Apoio/Certificacoes/Haapio_2008_Assessement_Tools.pdf

A critical review of building environmental assessment tools

In the last few decades, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has received increasing attention from the international scientific community, political institutions, and environmental governances for improving the comfort, health, and wellbeing of building occupants.[...].

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/11/1286/pdf

Indoor Air Quality and Health

The energy conservation through energy efficiency in the building has acquired prime importance all over the world. The four main aspects for energy efficiency in a building include first and foremost the nearly zero energy passive building design before actual construction, secondly the usage of low energy building materials during its construction, thirdly use of energy efficient equipments for low operational energy requirement and lastly integration of renewable energy technologies for various applications. These aspects have been discussed along with their economics and environmental impacts briefly in this paper. The first aspect is related to the prior design before construction of a solar passive building techniques adapted all over the world not only for passive heating/cooling but also for daylighting the building. Second is utilizing the low embodied energy building materials for building construction. The third aspect deals with the operational energy conservation using energy efficient equipments in the building. Lastly, the building has to include utility of integrated renewable systems for hot water heating, solar photovoltaic electrification, etc.

Renewable energy technologies for sustainable development of energy efficient building

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/1810/260832/1/Pomponi_et_al-2016-Journal_of_Environmental_Management-AM.pdf

Embodied carbon mitigation and reduction in the built environment - What does the evidence say?

Sulphuric acid (H2SO4) was utilized as an activator for the preparation of activated carbon from a biomass solid waste, coconut leaves. The sulphuric acid-treated activated carbon (SAC) was used as low-cost adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue (MB) cationic dye from aqueous solution. Adsorption of MB using SAC from aqueous solution under equilibrium and kinetic conditions in batch mode was evaluated by varying adsorbent dose (0.2–2.5 g/L), solution pH (3–11), initial dye concentration (30–400 mg/L), contact time (0–180 min) and temperature (303–323 K). The Langmuir isotherm model showed better fit to the equilibrium data than the Freundlich model. The adsorption capacity (qm) of SAC increased with temperature where qm varied as follows: 126.9 (303 K), 137.0 (313 K) and 149.3 mg/g (323 K). The kinetic uptake results were well described by the pseudo-second-order (PSO) kinetic for each temperatures. The thermodynamic adsorption parameters (∆G°, ∆H° and ∆S°) were driven by favourable entropic ...

Adsorption of methylene blue onto activated carbon developed from biomass waste by H2SO4 activation: kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic studies

The presented study is focused on the verification of a Building Environmental Assessment System (BEAS). A total of 13 detached family houses representing typical construction sites in Slovakia were chosen for analysis, evaluation and certification by using a BEAS which contains several main fields: A—Site Selection and Project Planning; B—Building Construction; C—Indoor Environment; D—Energy Performance; E—Water Management; and F—Waste Management. The results of this study show that the current construction method for family houses does not respect the criteria of sustainable construction as much as it possibly can. The reason for this is that investment costs for construction are prioritized over environmental and social aspects. Therefore, one house with a score of 1.10 is certified as BEAS BRONZE, ten family houses with scores of 1.56–2.88 are certified as BEAS SILVER and only two family houses with total scores of 3.59 and 3.87, respectively, are certified as BEAS GOLD. The overall results show that the weakest fields of sustainability are Waste management, Energy performance and Building construction. The best-rated fields are Site Selection and Project Planning, Indoor Environment and Water Management. In the future, it is essential to pay attention to those areas where the sustainability criteria have not been reached, as well as to raise project teams’ awareness of sustainability issues and subsequently to transfer them to building practices.

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/16/6524/pdf

Evaluation of Family Houses in Slovakia Using a Building Environmental Assessment System

Comparison of Material Compositions of Roofs in term of Environmental and Energy Performance Eva Kridlova Burdova, Silvia Vilcekova*, Jaroslav Vojtus, Anna Sedlakova Institute of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering,Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia Institute of Architectural Ingineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering,Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia silvia.vilcekova@tuke.sk

Comparison of Material Compositions of Roofs in Term of Environmental and Energy Performance

Construction and using of buildings for many years produce long-lasting impacts on human health and the environment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the rapidly evolving science of clarifying these impacts in terms of their quality, severity, and duration. LCA of three selected new family houses located in Eastern Slovakia is performed with the aim to compare them in terms of built-in materials as well as used technologies. The main goal of the analysis is to investigate and underline the foreseeable reduction rate of environmental impacts resulting from applied green materials and green technologies. LCA impact categories of global warming potential (GWP), ozone depletion potential (ODP), acidification potential (AP), eutrophication potential (EP), and photochemical ozone creation potential (POCP) are selected for this analysis. Investigated family houses are built from conventional materials, such as aerated concrete blocks, reinforced concrete, thermal insulation of silicate mineral slabs, and roofing mineral wool, as well as natural materials, such as clay, straw, wood, cellulose, and vegetation roofs. Product phase contributes greatly to the GWP for houses built of conventional materials. AP, EP, ODP, and POCP impact categories are considerable also in the product phase. Even an operational energy phase contributes a large share of the negative impact on the environment. Adoption of green design and technology in buildings, which can mitigate negative impacts on the environment, has been recognized as a key step towards global sustainable development. The main goal of this article is to make the case that green buildings are important for reducing negative effects on the environment and resources, while simultaneously enhancing positive effects throughout the building life cycle.

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/16/1/19/pdf

Life Cycle Analysis of Single Family Houses and Effects of Green Technologies on Environment

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has an important impact on health and wellbeing of building users. In order to maintain an acceptable IEQ, policies, strategies and guidelines on achieving the required IEQ have been developed. Control and evaluation of indoor air factors is needed for ensuring the sufficient air quality. Impact of emmisions from building materials, furnishings and HVAC systems to indoor air quality should be included in the assessment of indoor environmental quality. In many systems for sustainability assessment of buildings is put a great emphasis on indoor environmental quality. This paper provides an overview of sustainability assessment systems for rating of indoor environmental quality. The criteria included in LEED, BREEAM and other well known systems for assessment of indoor environmental quality are presented. Building environmental assessment system (BEAS) developed for application in Slovakia is also introduced. Worldwide used rating systems were based on the development of BEAS. This is multi-criteria system contained six main fields such as site selection and project planning; building construction; indoor environment; energy performance; water and waste management. System consist from 53 indicators of assessment.

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Rating of indoor environmental quality in systems of sustainability assessment of buildings

The Slovak building environmental assessment system (BEAS) was developed on the basis of existing systems used in many countries. BEAS as a multi-criteria system which is incorporated in proposed main fields: site selectionp building construction; indoor environment; energy performance; water management and waste management. The goal of waste management is to minimize the waste generated from construction, renovation, and demolition of buildings and to minimize waste generated during the building occupancy. The field of waste management will be introduced in the paper. The aim is also weighting and analysis of significance of waste management indicators using AHP method.

Silvia Vilčeková

Papers

Evaluation of Family Houses in Slovakia Using a Building Environmental Assessment System

Comparison of Material Compositions of Roofs in Term of Environmental and Energy Performance

Life Cycle Analysis of Single Family Houses and Effects of Green Technologies on Environment

Rating of indoor environmental quality in systems of sustainability assessment of buildings

Building environmental assessment — waste management