The research is focused on the concept of ‘utility’ regarding the sustainable building assessment methods. The study presented is part of a wider research that analyses the sus-tainable building assessment methods regarding the challenge of sustainability. Keeping in mi...

The International Conference on Sustainable Construction took place in Sevilla last November. The meeting was organized by the Andalusian Institute of Technology (IAT) in collaboration with the Professional Association of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of S...

Welcoming words from SB11 conference chair, Mr. Pekka Huovila (VTT Finland) on how the conference differs from the past World Sustainable Building conferences. For more information, visit http://www.sb11.org/

Welcoming words from SB11 conference chair, Mr. Pekka Huovila (VTT Finland) on how the conference differs from the past World Sustainable Building conferences. For more information, visit http://www.sb11.org/

There is considerable variation in the extent to which environmental measures are adopted in housing construction in various European countries. Whereas sustainable housing is dearly part of day-to-day building practice in some countries, in others the topic seldom rece...

There is considerable variation in the extent to which environmental measures are adopted in housing construction in various European countries. Whereas sustainable housing is dearly part of day-to-day building practice in some countries, in others the topic seldom rece...

etween the human being and the protective building space, always a relationship with a reciprocal character a permanent arrangement, where the human being interest is to create the necessary poise to his different well-unfolded activities, under that cover as space. The...

"Sustainable development" has been defined best by the Brundtland Commission as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Adequate and affordable energy supplies have been key to ec...

This report is presents and summarises the results of the European SuPerBuild-ings project. The project developed and selected sustainability indicators for buildings, de-velop understanding about performance levels considering new and existing buildings, different buil...

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