A General Framework for Sustainability Assessment of Buildings: A Life-Cycle Thinking Approach

Construction is a manufacturing industry that consumes substantial amounts of natural resources, human and social capital. Activities occur during building construction utilization negatively impact the environment have direct indirect impacts on surrounding community society. Properly assessing sustainability buildings critical to pursuit achievement sustainable development goals. Also, project decision-makers stakeholders currently lack an effective tool for comparing relative different materials, design approaches, methods, operation alternatives. Thus, integrated framework in terms environmental, economic, aspects developed proposed this paper based life cycle thinking. This applicable types life-cycle assessment scopes provides practical investment reference, implement, use guide decision-making process. may also provide reference other researchers field develop models optimized projects.