ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF SITE SELECTION AND PROJECT PLANNING INDICATORS IN BEAS

11th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2011, www.sgem.org, SGEM2011 Conference Proceedings/ ISSN 1314-2704, June 20-25, 2011, Vol. 3, 303-310 pp

ABSTRACT

Building environmental assessment systems and methods has been introduced in many
countries. Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method
(BREEAM) designated as a first building environmental assessment method was
developed in the United Kingdom in 1990. The Slovak building environmental
assessment system (BEAS) has been processed in the recent times. Systems and tools
used in many countries were based on the new system development for applications
under Slovak conditions. The fields and indicators are proposed on the base of available
experiences database analysis from environmental performance of buildings. The
foundation of system development was mainly based on the SBTool. BEAS is a multicriteria
system which included environmental, social and cultural aspects. The building
environmental assessment systems deal with site selection and project planning,
building constructions, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, waste management during
building constructions and operations and water management. The building site and
project planning field will be introduced in the paper. This paper summarizes analysis of
weights the significance of environmental indicators to measure this field in BEAS by
Saaty method of Analytic hierarchy process. Also the proposal and verify of this field
will be presented for selected office buildings.

Keywords: building environmental assessment, assessment system, site selection, Analytic hierarchy process