A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Measuring the environmental sustainability of buildings in the global south is relatively new, especially within rapidly developing economies like Nigeria where most conventions for quantifying sustainability are hinged on declarations that come from self-assessed developers and material producers. The absence of any consensus method to ascertain what constitutes a "green" building or material in the Nigerian building industry creates a gap for whole building assemblies to lay claim to a range of unverifiable environmental performances. This study examines quantifying building sustainability in Nigeria based on the principle that whole life cycle impacts assessment of a building presents an opportunity to audit the sustainability of the materials used for its construction, energy expended on construction activities, ecosystems destabilized, emissions generated and non renewable resources used. Hence it explores the theoretical use of such a framework according to the internationally established approach for analyzing the environmental impacts of building products and processes set aside by ISO 14041 standards and interpreted within a Nigerian built environment context.
Measuring the environmental sustainability of buildings in the global south is relatively new, especially within rapidly developing economies like Nigeria where most conventions for quantifying sustainability are hinged on declarations that come from self-assessed developers and material producers. The absence of any consensus method to ascertain what constitutes a "green" building or material in the Nigerian building industry creates a gap for whole building assemblies to lay claim to a range of unverifiable environmental performances. This study examines quantifying building sustainability in Nigeria based on the principle that whole life cycle impacts assessment of a building presents an opportunity to audit the sustainability of the materials used for its construction, energy expended on construction activities, ecosystems destabilized, emissions generated and non renewable resources used. Hence it explores the theoretical use of such a framework according to the internationally established approach for analyzing the environmental impacts of building products and processes set aside by ISO 14041 standards and interpreted within a Nigerian built environment context.
Environmental Profiling As an Approach for Quantifying the Environmental Sustainability of Residential Buildings in Nigeria
International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Construction 2012 ; 2012 ; Fort Worth, Texas, United States
ICSDEC 2012 ; 431-440
2012-11-14
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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