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@MISC{Cherqui_physicalenvironment,
author = {F. Cherqui and L. Mora and F. Allard and E. Wurtz},
title = {physical environment},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The fast and uncontrolled emergence of a will to promote sustainable development in the field of building construction generates new require-ments for urban development. Besides technical solutions, project managers or urban planners must take into consideration the overall impact of his project on the local and global environ-ment as well as social trends, economic devel-opment, health and safety for users. Integration of a huge number of evaluation criteria makes the assessment of such strategy very hard to carry out without a real methodological work. This paper proposes a first methodological ap-proach in order to evaluate sustainability at the district scale. This methodology allows actors in the building sector to consider different sustain-able alternatives for a project. The methodology is based on 8 objectives: four of them concern social and economical aspects and are not ad-dressed now. The next four objectives are Pre-serve the resources (RES), Preserve the ecosys-tem (ECO), Improve the quality of the physical environment (AMB for "Ambiance") and Pre-serve health and manage risks (RIS). Each ob-jective is assessed by a set of indicators, thus professionals can evaluate quantitatively differ-ent alternatives of a district project planning by means of Amoeba diagrams. Also, this method-ology is a contribution to the French research project ADEQUA funded and initiated by the
Keyphrases
physical environment building sector amoeba diagram different sustain-able alternative differ-ent alternative pre-serve health first methodological ap-proach project manager french research project adequa uncontrolled emergence sustainable development social trend real methodological work global environ-ment evaluation criterion urban planner huge number manage risk overall impact besides technical solution district scale new require-ments economical aspect economic devel-opment district project planning urban development
