Making decisions by integrating social and environmental concerns beyond the financial
dimension involves complex decision‐making processes in which innovative approaches …

The paper presents a new multi-criteria decision-making technique to select criteria for
building sustainability assessment. The methodology of building certification system is …

Despite the worldwide promotion of the sustainable building (SB) approach, its associated
interdependence has seldom been explored. This knowledge gap is significant given the …

The city of Loviisa in Finland is planning a new sustainable residential area with a total of
240,000 m 2 of residential houses and apartment buildings with services. The city wants to …

The selection of an appropriate Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis method or a combination
thereof, is essential to support sustainability decision-making in the waste management …

Few other sectors have such a great impact on sustainability as the construction industry, in
which concerns over the environmental dimension have been growing for some time. The …

Timber is a renewable material with excellent strength-to-weight ratios, insulating properties
and it plays an important environmental role, acting as a CO 2 sink. Public awareness of …

Making sustainable decisions is a major concern for government departments seeking to
develop best practices and innovative methods to deal with complex decision-making …

Few other sectors have such a great impact on sustainability as the construction industry,
which has expressed growing concerns in this regard for a long time, mainly focusing on the …

The residential sector is multi-faceted by nature. Although evidence shows that the UAE is
among the countries in the world that take sustainability seriously, there is a lack of …