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People in developed and developing countries spend 80-90% of their time inside buildings while 40% of the global energy production and half of the resources consumed are related with the building sector which at the same time represents 10% of the global economy. These figures alone are indicative of the major role that
buildings play today as regards the environment, the economy and the human factor. The international and European community driven principally from environmental related issues that are high on the agenda (i.e. climate change, global warming), has endorsed over the last few years the concept of environmental and energy assessments of buildings. Legislative framework in EU steers in that direction with the Directive on the energy performance of buildings (2002/91/EC) being a major landmark. Likewise, a plethora of assessment methods and tools like BREEAM (UK) and LEED (USA) have been developed and used by an ever-growing part of the
building market. Nevertheless, this otherwise positive progress in building sector seems rather limited as regards the scope of sustainable development. Today, buildings are only assessed
against environmental issues, while social and economic parameters are largely ignored by assessments. LEnSE project is a European research project that responds to the growing need in Europe for assessing a building’s sustainability performance, counting for all three pillars of sustainability: Environment – Society – Economy. The
main objective was to develop a methodology for the assessment of the sustainability performance of existing, new and renovated buildings, which is broadly accepted by the European stakeholders involved in sustainable construction. To facilitate this process, the author of this dissertation developed two kinds of assessment tools; one ExcelTM based aimed for testing the developed methodology
and one web-based application (http://emttu.stef.teiher.gr) as a proposed final tool for end-users opting for market-value by means of functionality, reliability and userfriendly interface. At the end, the results of the testing of the method in actual buildings are discussed and conclusions are drawn about the future of integrated assessment and labelling of sustainable buildings in the EU.
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Προς μια μεθοδολογία ολοκληρωμένης αξιολόγησης και πιστοποίησης κτιριακών υποδομών στην Ε.Ε. στα πλαίσια της αειφόρου ανάπτυξης
