Environmental performance assessment: perceptions of project managers on the relationship between operational and environmental performance indicators

Eco-friendly building designs that use building information modeling (BIM) have become popular, and a variety of eco-friendly building assessment technologies that take advantage of BIM are being developed. However, existing building environmental performance assessment technologies that use BIM are linked to external assessment tools, and there exist compatibility issues among programs; it requires a considerable amount of time to address these problems, owing to the lack of experts who can operate the programs. This study aims to develop eco-friendly templates for assessing the embodied environmental impact of buildings using BIM authoring tools as part of the development of BIM-based building life cycle assessment (LCA) technologies. Therefore, an embodied environmental impact unit database was developed, for major building materials during production and operating stages, to perform embodied environmental impact assessments. Moreover, a major structural element library that uses the database was developed and a function was created to produce building environmental performance assessment results tables, making it possible to review the eco-friendliness of buildings. A case study analysis was performed to review the feasibility of the environmental performance assessment technologies. The results showed a less than 5% effective error rate in the assessment results that were obtained using the technology developed in this study compared with the assessment results based on the actual calculation and operating stage energy consumption figures, which proves the reliability of the proposed approach.

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A climatic environmental performance assessment method for ecological city construction: Application to Beijing Yanqi Lake

Advances in Climate Change Research ◽

10.1016/j.accre.2015.08.001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 23-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Xiao-Yi Fang ◽

Chen Cheng ◽

Yong-Hong Liu ◽

Wu-Peng Du ◽

Xiao-Jun Xiao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Performance Assessment ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Assessment Method ◽

Environmental Performance Assessment ◽

City Construction

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Urban resource use and environmental performance indicators. An application of decomposition analysis

Ecological Indicators ◽

10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.04.022 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 16-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Amalia Zucaro ◽

Maddalena Ripa ◽

Salvatore Mellino ◽

Marco Ascione ◽

Sergio Ulgiati

Keyword(s):

Resource Use ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Decomposition Analysis ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

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CRITERIA AND PRINCIPLES OF THE TECHNICAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS APPLICABLE IN ECOLOGY

GEOLINKS Conference proceedings, Book 2 Volume 2 ◽

10.32008/geolinks2020/b2/v2/17 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Stefan Trandafir ◽

Adrian Ioana ◽

Roxana Marina Solea ◽

Daniela Tufeanu ◽

Diana Cristina Labes (Craciun)

Keyword(s):

Economic Analysis ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Community Relations ◽

Environment Protection ◽

Dual Purpose ◽

New Religion ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators ◽

Comparable Time

Environment protection, like a new religion consists of: environmental programmes, objectives and targets, training, incentive schemes, audit frequency, site inspections, administration and community relations. This paper presents the main environmental performance indicators. They should therefore be cost-effective and appropriate to the size and type of organization and its needs and priorities. Organizations should make the optimum use of the environmental information they collect. To this end the indicators should fulfill the dual purpose of assisting the management of the organization and providing information to stakeholders. In article we present a set of Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI). These indicators should therefore be cost-effective and appropriate to the size and type of organization and its needs and priorities. We present many categories of environmental performance indicators: comparability (indicators should enable a comparison and show changes in the environmental performance); balance between problematic (bad) and prospective (good) areas, continuity (indicators should be based on the same criteria and should be taken over comparable time sections or units); timeliness (indicators should be updated frequently enough to allow action to be taken); clarity (indicators should be clear and understandable).

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The use of environmental performance indicators in “the greenest city in Europe”

Baltic Journal of Management ◽

10.1108/bjm-01-2018-0028 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 122-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jan Alpenberg ◽

Tomasz Wnuk-Pel ◽

Philip Adamsson ◽

Johannes Petersson

Keyword(s):

Performance Indicators ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Environmental Indicators ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Content Type ◽

Study Approach ◽

External Stakeholders ◽

Municipal Managers ◽

Environmental Performance Indicators

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine why and how municipal managers and CEOs for municipally owned companies use the environmental performance indicators. Design/methodology/approach A case study approach as a research design was used. In total, 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted among managers for administrative departments and municipal company CEOs. Findings This study found that the environmental performance indicators are used by department managers mainly for resource allocation, control and for teaching the employees. The CEOs of the municipal companies use the environmental indicators for communicating with external stakeholders and see the indicators primarily as marketing tools. The main reason why the environmental performance indicators are used in the municipality can be the strong demand from the local politicians to push the “green agenda,” and therefore the managers have to comply. Research limitations/implications As in any case study, generalizations from the research should be made with care, but since this is only one municipality, further research is needed to find additional evidence. Practical implications The findings of this study have a number of implications for future practice, and it is worth mentioning that clear guidelines for how the information could be made more useful for managers at the managerial level in Växjö municipality (VM) are requested for both the municipal managers and the CEOs. Social implications Overall, this study strengthens the idea that environmental performance indicators could be used to a larger extent for communicating with external stakeholders both for municipal departments and companies. Originality/value The research adds to the literature by examining different patterns of using environmental performance indicators in a unique setting – in VM, which is called “the greenest city in Europe” and is one of the “pioneers” in environmental work and extensively uses performance indicators.

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