TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a unified set of sustainable building materials criteria
AU - Baharetha, S. M.
AU - Al-Hammad, A. A.
AU - Alshuwaikhat, H. M.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Building materials have a significant impact in achieving more sustainable buildings. At the same time, the huge rates of raw materials consumption and production happened recently made it inevitable to proper select sustainable materials in order to incorporate sustainability principles and criteria in building projects. In this paper, a holistic set of these criteria is developed considering all environmental, economic and social sustainability principles by reviewing state of the art studies concerned with highlighting criteria affecting selecting sustainable building materials. Although there are many organizations considered with the study of sustainable buildings such as LEED, BREEAM and Green Globes, still there is no agreement on categories, number and definitions of criteria affecting selecting sustainable building materials. The significance of this study will help the building industry adopt a unified set of sustainable building material criteria. In addition, it will aid architects and engineers better select more sustainable building materials.
AB - Building materials have a significant impact in achieving more sustainable buildings. At the same time, the huge rates of raw materials consumption and production happened recently made it inevitable to proper select sustainable materials in order to incorporate sustainability principles and criteria in building projects. In this paper, a holistic set of these criteria is developed considering all environmental, economic and social sustainability principles by reviewing state of the art studies concerned with highlighting criteria affecting selecting sustainable building materials. Although there are many organizations considered with the study of sustainable buildings such as LEED, BREEAM and Green Globes, still there is no agreement on categories, number and definitions of criteria affecting selecting sustainable building materials. The significance of this study will help the building industry adopt a unified set of sustainable building material criteria. In addition, it will aid architects and engineers better select more sustainable building materials.
KW - selection criteria
KW - sustainable building industry
KW - sustainable materials
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887334240&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1061/9780784412688.088
DO - 10.1061/9780784412688.088
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84887334240
SN - 9780784412688
T3 - ICSDEC 2012: Developing the Frontier of Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction
SP - 732
EP - 740
BT - ICSDEC 2012
ER -
