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Ahern, E (2022) A framework for improving the process of building certification to enhance energy efficiency: the case of Ireland, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Akande, O K (2015) Factors influencing operational energy performance and refurbishment of UK listed church buildings: towards a strategic management framework, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Alkhraisha, A (2023) Approaches for enhancing the construction and demolition waste management strategy in Jordan, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Bispham, J (2008) Historic imported softwood in eastern England: past knowledge, current perceptions and conservation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Burrell, P A (2017) Structural errors and failures in construction: is knowledge hidden?, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering & the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Crabtree, P J (2014) The optimisation of construction management higher education to promote professional competencies and professional capability, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Crascall, L M (2021) Re-imagining built environment education: investigating the pracademic through autoethnography, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Gale, K (2013) An evaluation of performance improvement within public sector construction framework agreements, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Hobart, C (2019) Building sustainability assessment schemes: The role of criteria in translating aims into effect, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: commercial; evaluation; feedback; improvement; occupancy; post-occupancy evaluation; standards; valuation; sustainability; wellbeing
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- URL: https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/705066/
- Abstract:
Building sustainability assessment schemes (BSAS) such as BREEAM and LEED are used to generate a comprehensive design stage assessment of the sustainability of a building. Their use as a means of setting sustainability standards for new and refurbished buildings has achieved international political and commercial acceptance. However, BSAS are widely criticised within academic literature for lacking either a sound theoretical basis or empirical evidence of success. To be effective in their assumed role, BSAS must reliably differentiate buildings in terms of sustainability. In practice the broad range of indicators employed, the range of building types assessed and the lack of any feedback loop make quantitative assessment of efficacy challenging. Consequently, after over 20 years of use it remains unclear to what extent BSAS are effective in stimulating either specific or general sustainability improvements in buildings. This knowledge gap is addressed in this study, through examination of the application of the energy, water and health and wellbeing sections of the BREEAM scheme, to four recently constructed university buildings. A review of assessment reports is combined with a post-occupancy evaluation to enable intended cause and effect paths to be identified and validated. Through examination of this data understanding of previously proposed theoretical limitations is expanded. This facilitates identification of both theoretical and observed strengths and weaknesses within the individual criteria employed. The underlying importance of well-configured criteria in producing overall effect clearly emerges. This allows specific recommendations to be made for their improvement in terms of appropriateness of content, appeal to users, potential for robust evidencing, scope and complexity. Although produced using a single BSAS, the above recommendations have potential to be generalised across similar scheme formats. The research methodology employed has potential to be replicated, with certain refinements, across a range of scheme and building types. The increased understanding of BSAS criteria generated by this study and its potential expansion offer great potential to improve the functional capabilities of BSAS. Given the global importance of managing the sustainability of the built environment and the current lack of any viable alternative to BSAS, any such improvement should be of great interest to scheme operators and policy makers alike.
Muleya, F (2014) Modelling wheeled construction plant performance in clay and sandy terrain : a terramechanics perspective, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Engineering and the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Powell, M J V (2003) Built environment and biblical theology: Making connections: Discerning relationships, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Quarterman, M (2017) Acquisition of higher-order professional competencies: a new synergistic learning model, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering & the Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University.
Talbot, B (2021) A novel data-driven tool to improve construction schedule accuracy, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Vohmann, B (2019) Authentic assessment to enhance undergraduates' learning and development as effective practitioners in built environment disciplines, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Anglia Ruskin University.
Zhao, Y (2016) Green supply chain management drivers/pressures, practices and performance in Chinese construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Lord Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University.