A Comparative Sustainability Assessment of Standard Housing Blocks in Hong Kong and Proposed Integer Concept Tower Alternative
| Autor: | Richard Frewer, Alex Amato, Steven Humphrey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
South china business.industry Strategy and Management Environmental resource management Context (language use) Building and Construction Construction industry Management of Technology and Innovation Sustainability Life cycle costing business Activity-based costing Tower Life-cycle assessment Environmental planning |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Construction Management. 3:93-108 |
| ISSN: | 2331-2327 1562-3599 |
| Popis: | This study endeavours to establish an internationally recognised methodology to undertake comparative assessments of the relative ‘sustainability’ of buildings and in future civil engineering projects. The methodology devised (in particular the materials database of environmental impacts) to achieve this, has been specifically tailored to Hong Kong’s Construction Industry, and thereafter with some further development will be applicable to the broader South East Asia Region.Hong Kong and the South China region are strongly driven by costs so, in this context, Life Cycle Costing (LCC) sometimes referred to as Whole Life Costing, must be included in any assessment. Life Cycle Costing (LCC), together with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are the sustainability impacts measured. Therefore in this study, two of the three recognised environmental aspects of sustainability are measured: economics and environment. Social impacts were omitted because at present there is not an established consensus of which soci... |
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