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Al-saeed, Y W, Ahmed, A and Pärn, E A (2020) An 80-year projection of nZEB strategies in extreme climatic conditions of Iraq. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 472–92.

Cooper, J, Lee, A and Jones, K (2020) Sustainable built asset management performance indicators and attributes. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 508–22.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Key Performance Indicator (KPI); Performance Attributes; Sustainability; Building Asset Management; Housing;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 2398-4708
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-08-2019-0069
  • Abstract:
    This paper aims to identify key performance indicators (KPIs), and their corresponding attributes, required to successfully manage asset management sustainably in a built environment context. Improving the sustainability of existing housing stock is a major challenge facing the UK social housing sector. There is a lack of support to navigate the growing and often incongruent information relating to sustainable development and how to operationalise it. The problem is twofold; first, the current (single criterion) condition-based approach to maintenance planning constrains asset managers and does not fully address the social, environmental and economic aspects of sustainability. Second, the toolkits available for assessing the sustainability of housing are often generic and are time consuming and expensive to implement.Design/methodology/approach This paper reports the findings of a participatory research project with a leading London-based housing association, using a series of landlord and tenant workshops to derive a set of attributes associated with KPIs to fully reflect the local requirements of the landlord and their interpretation of the sustainability agenda. Five KPIs are considered to be measurable, directly affected by maintenance work and independent of each other were identified by this landlord (comfort, running costs, adaptability, maintenance costs and community).Findings The resulting outputs, in a policy context, will provide a clear route map to social housing landlords of how to improve the sustainability of their housing stock with the additional benefits of addressing fuel poverty and carbon emission targets, whilst at the same time, help create and maintain housing in which people want to live.Originality/value The proposed approach is flexible enough to incorporate the individual requirements of landlords and be able to adapt to changes in government policy (local and central) in a timely, robust, transparent and inclusive format.

Hoxha, V (2019) Measuring embodied CO2 emission in construction materials in Kosovo apartments. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 405–21.

Mohamed, I F, Edwards, D J, Mateo-Garcia, M, Costin, G and Thwala, W D D (2019) An investigation into the construction industry’s view on fire prevention in high-rise buildings post Grenfell. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 451–71.

Oladunjoye, O A, Proverbs, D G, Collins, B and Xiao, H (2019) A cost-benefit analysis model for the retrofit of sustainable urban drainage systems towards improved flood risk mitigation. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 423–39.

Sharifi, A A and Farahinia, A H (2020) Evaluation of the adaptive reuse potential of historic buildings and proposition of preventive-protective measures. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 493–507.

Wang, Z (2019) Building internal heat dissipation of special shaped columns composed of concrete-filled square steel tubes based on thermal bridge models. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(03), 441–9.