How Actors Can Implement in Practice the General Principles of Sustainability in Their Buildings and Civil Engineering Projects
In order to implement sustainability thinking in the construction sector, actors need to have in mind the general principles of sustainability and to rely on guidance for practical implementation. The complexity and multidimensional character of sustainability leads to the necessity of a well-structured tool able to accompany the actors in their construction projects, and to recommend relevant questions, actions and decisions at each phase. In 2014 the technical specification ISO/TS 12720 Sustainability in buildings and civil engineering works-Guidelines for the application of the general principles was released, based on nine general principles, described in ISO 15392:2008. These principles are: continual improvement, equity, global thinking and local action, holistic approach, involvement of interested parties, long-term consideration, precaution and risk management, responsibility, and transparency. The ISO 15392 standard is very general and difficult to implement in real projects without application guidance. ISO/TS 12720 is able to provide this guidance to actors during the different phases of a construction project, combining different sustainability issues and detailing practical recommendations. Starting from a vision of what a sustainable building should be, inspired from a European R&D project, the technical specification (TS) describes a multi-dimensional framework with different view angles. This TS is a powerful tool to facilitate integration and concrete implementation of the sustainability general principles. This paper presents the contents of this TS and its application as a guideline in the elaboration of an ISO standard on visual environment developed by ISO TC 205.The ISO 15392 standard is currently under revision, which presents an opportunity to analyse if new practices like BIM, integrated design, smart-cities, circular economy and resilience, may generate new general principles or bring a new light on existing ones.
sustainability principles ISO standard design process
Sylviane NIBEL Thomas L(U)TZKENDORF Guido HOFF Gérard SENIOR Jabeen QUADIR
Centre Scientifique et Technique du B(a)timent, France Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany Deutsches Institut für Normung-Consumer Council, Germany GermanyArchitecte, A.E.T.I.C., France Sustainability Edge Solutions, Canada
国际会议
2017世界可持续建筑环境大会(the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference)
香港
英文
611-616
2017-06-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）