Sustainability Certifications, Labels and Tools in the Built Environment

How to evaluate, certificate and reduce the energy and environmental impacts of buildings
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70513-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components. Many protocols, tools and labels have been proposed in recent years, both at international and local level, and the aim of the book is to classify, describe and discuss all the different approaches and options.

The chapters offer a comprehensive, up to date and critical review of all the different certification methods which have been proposed at different levels in the building sector. The first chapter introduces the topic and its importance, providing data on the impact of the building sector and the construction industry. The following chapters are dedicated respectively to tools and protocols for cities and neighbourhood sustainability assessment, tools and protocols for buildings sustainability assessment and certification and finally for building materials and components. Finally, the book includes an overview of the legislation and standards in the field and case studies to exemplify the application of the different tools and labels.

This is a key reference for decision-makers, researchers, scholars, students, and professionals approaching research and work in the field of energy and environmental impact of the building sector be they engineers, architects, planners, owners, developers, or facility managers.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asdrubali, Francesco

Berardi, Umberto

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Immobilienwirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Energie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Bauindustrie, Baugewerbe
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Immobilien & Anlagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

About the Authors

List of Contributors                 

Chapter 1 Introduction

Francesco Asdrubali and Umberto Berardi             

Chapter 2 The impact of the building sector

Francesco Asdrubali, Umberto Berardi, and Roberto Stasi              

Chapter 3 Tools and protocols for cities/neighbourhood sustainability assessment

Umberto Berardi, Paolo Civiero, Ursula Eicker, Oriol Gavalda, Ilaria Montella, Joana Ortiz, Hadise Rasoulian, and Jaume Salom              

Chapter 4 Tools and protocols for buildings sustainability assessment and certification

laria Ballarini, Franz Bianco Mauthe Degerfeld, Vincenzo Corrado, Matteo Piro, Álvaro Sicilia Gómez, Boris Sucic, Mark Gorgolewski, Margarita-Niki Assimakopoulos,  Fabio Bisegna, Chrysanthi Efthymiou, Denia Kolokotsa, Flavia Vespasiano, Monica Lavagna, Alexander Passer, Lise Mouton, Damien Trigaux, and Karen Allacker                

Chapter 5 Labels for building materials and components sustainability assessment and certificatio

Francesco Asdrubali, Maurizio Cellura, Antonino D’Amico, Francesco Guarino, Dante Maria Gandola, Gianluca Grazieschi, and Sonia Longo                      

Chapter 6 Other sustainability certifications and labels

Francesco Asdrubali, Dario Ballarano, Dante Maria Gandola, Sergio Maria Patella, and Luca Quadrifoglio      

Chapter 7 Conclusions

Francesco Asdrubali and Umberto Berardi

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Asdrubali is full professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems and vice-Rector at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia (Italy) since 2023, after 8 years as full professor at Roma Tre University (2015-23). Previously he served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Perugia.  Graduated in Civil Engineering in 1990, he obtained a PhD in Thermophysical properties of materials in 1995. He served as Director of CIRIAF, an Inter-University Research Center in the field of environment and pollution, based at the University of Perugia, from 2004 till 2013 and as President of the Acoustical Society of Italy from 2021 till 2024. His teaching activities include the courses of Building Physics, Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, Energy systems and Environment, Environmental and Room Acoustics, in the Universities of Perugia and Roma Tre. The areas of scientific research cover a wide range of topics, such as energy and buildings, thermophysical properties of materials, Life Cycle Assessment in the building sector, renewable and alternative energies, acoustical properties of materials, environmental noise and soundscape. Francesco Asdrubali is author of more than 400 scientific papers, most of them with international diffusion in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of various book chapters and Co-Editor of the Book: F. Asdrubali, U. Desideri "Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings - A Life Cycle Approach”; Elsevier, 2018. He is member of the Editorial Board of various international Journals and Editor in Chief of two Journals in the field of acoustics: Building Acoustics and Noise Mapping. The international activities include the coordination of various national and EU-funded Projects (LIFE, Intelligent Energy Europe, VII FP; Horizon 2020) and the participation to a COST Action on acoustic innovative materials.Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees and Session Organizer of several international conferences, such as ICSV16 (2009), ICAE International Congress on Applied Energy (2011), ECOS (2012), EAA Euroregio (2013), ICSV22 (2015), Euronoise (2015), ICSV23 (2016), ICSV24 (2017), Internoise (2017), Building Simulation (2019), ICSV26 (2019), Forum Acusticum (2023).

 

Dr. Umberto Berardi is Canada Research Chair in Building Science and Director of the BeTOP laboratory and Full professor at Politecnico di Bari, Italy. He worked from 2012 to 2014 at the Worcester Politechnic Institute in Masschussetts, and then at the Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario Canada, where he served as full professor since 2018. His main research interests are related to the study of innovative solutions and new materials for improving the performance within the built environment. Dr. Berardi is the current President of the Canadian Acoustical Association and of the International Association of Building Physics (IABP). Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record, including 200 peer-reviewed journals, 250 international conference papers, and ten books. Dr. Berardi’s publications have received 20,000 citations in Google Scholar.Dr. Berardi contributes to several academic and scientific communities. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Canadian Acoustics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Building Engineering. He has been the editor of several special issues for journals such as Energy and Buildings, Building and Environment, Journal of Building Performance Simulation, Sustainable Cities and Society, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of the following journals: Energy and Buildings, Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal of Building Performance Simulation, Building Simulation, Sustainable Development, Intelligent Building International, Buildings, Sustainability, and Energy and Policy Research. His awards include (among others): Frontiers in 2024, the 2023 European Thermophysical Properties ECTP-NETZSCH AWARD; the 10th Canada's Clean16 award and Clean50, 2021; the Young Researcher Award by the AIGE in 2019; among others. Dr. Berardi has a body of funded research comprising over $2.5M in government and private sector sponsored research. He has been awarded a CFI-JELF; NSERC Discovery Grant; Early Research Award from the MRI - Ontario; Building Excellence Research and Education Grants from the BC Housing - Homeowner Protection Office; OCE-VIP projects; Ryerson Research Fund for Tools and for Undergraduate Research Experience and several NSERC Engages.