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Jelena Nikolic
Department of Physics, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

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Review
Published: 22 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Considering the serious challenges our planet is facing, the building environment and construction sector must minimize their high negative impacts and maximize their contribution to sustainability. Many alternatives could promote this change, but to effectively optimize our architecture, we must take the step of quantifying and qualifying the sustainability of our constructions by choosing the best assessment alternative in each case. Many assessment methodologies and tools exist and there have been numerous reviews of them. The main objective and novelty of this review is to present an updated critical overview of all the sustainability evaluation alternatives developed in research studies in the fields of architectural design, construction, refurbishment and restoration. To achieve this, the analysis follows a specific methodology based on recent similar reviews. The result is a database with 1242 eligible documents analyzed in this review and attached as supplementary material available for future studies. As a main conclusion, rating tools and life cycle methods were found to be the most commonly applied methodologies, while the most recent tendencies use combined methods and probabilistic scenarios. This review could be useful to move towards a more sustainable building environment.

ACS Style

Oriol Pons-Valladares; Jelena Nikolic. Sustainable Design, Construction, Refurbishment and Restoration of Architecture: A Review. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9741 .

AMA Style

Oriol Pons-Valladares, Jelena Nikolic. Sustainable Design, Construction, Refurbishment and Restoration of Architecture: A Review. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9741.

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Oriol Pons-Valladares; Jelena Nikolic. 2020. "Sustainable Design, Construction, Refurbishment and Restoration of Architecture: A Review." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9741.

Journal article
Published: 18 July 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Rooftop-farming technologies can transform unexploited roofs into agricultural areas; and though studies have quantified the sustainability of diverse rooftop-farm systems, researchers lack a direct comparison between these farms using a unified sustainability index. Therefore the proposed bottom-up model aims to quantify the sustainability of rooftop-farm technologies application in school building stocks, thus permitting an objective comparison and ultimately selection of the best-fitted farm system. This model handles large building samples by combining Statistical Mining Techniques with the Integrated Value Model for Sustainability Assessment. It uses data on the economic, environmental and social aspects of the farms, and relates them to the technical limitations and functionality found in the host buildings. The model has three consecutive stages: 1) in the City Stage reference buildings are identified from the stock, 2) the Building Information Stage determines the logistics and infrastructure requirements; and, 3) the Farm Technology Stage quantifies the farms' sustainability. This model was used to assess the potential implementation of three rooftop-farms (edible-green roofs, rooftop greenhouses and integrated rooftop greenhouses) in the primary school stock in Quito, Ecuador. Two reference buildings represented the primary school stock of the city; and, in both typologies, edible-green roofs obtained the highest sustainability values of 0.62 and 0.65. The environmental pillar was the most discriminant in which green-roofs achieved twice the sustainability values for the rooftop-greenhouses due to their larger rainwater harvesting capacity, thermal resistance and contribution to the increment of urban greenspaces.

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Gabriela Ledesma; Jelena Nikolic; Oriol Pons-Valladares. Bottom-up model for the sustainability assessment of rooftop-farming technologies potential in schools in Quito, Ecuador. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 274, 122993 .

AMA Style

Gabriela Ledesma, Jelena Nikolic, Oriol Pons-Valladares. Bottom-up model for the sustainability assessment of rooftop-farming technologies potential in schools in Quito, Ecuador. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 274 ():122993.

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Gabriela Ledesma; Jelena Nikolic; Oriol Pons-Valladares. 2020. "Bottom-up model for the sustainability assessment of rooftop-farming technologies potential in schools in Quito, Ecuador." Journal of Cleaner Production 274, no. : 122993.

Concept paper
Published: 03 May 2018 in Energies
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Post-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade and its special form of integrated prefabrication has been analyzed with a strong interest in transformation capacity of industrialized building model (IBM) on different technical levels. Research field is massive housing up to 23 floors, 400 dwellings per building and different housing layouts—to be evaluated for potential retrofitting at the dwelling level. IBM for massive housing built with IMS construction technology represents an integration of systems’ components into hierarchy assemblies by simple joints. IMS Building Technology by IMS Institute is the system for high-rise structures with prefabricated elements of the skeleton. In order to assess the current situation regarding the selection and implementation of energy savings measures and the role of industrialized technology in supporting the rehabilitation of post-war housing in Belgrade—building configuration model and IMS construction technology has been analyzed, providing in-depth information on the way building components and systems are put together into IBM. In which way retrofit may be approached? IBM is represented with graph model (GM) diagram to describe a number of value-added processes according to independent systems/components and flexible connections. This paper highlights the technological aspects of “open” prefabrication industry and building with the systems that should be assessed in the future retrofitting of massive housing based on industrialization and energy efficiency. The paper proposes an IBM that provides concrete description of massive housing buildings, the requirements for information to be provided to approving refurbishment processes. The research also addresses both: challenges as well as opportunities for advancing Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards in off-site re-construction of massive housing with new “infill” industry.

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Jelena Nikolic. Building “with the Systems” vs. Building “in the System” of IMS Open Technology of Prefabricated Construction: Challenges for New “Infill” Industry for Massive Housing Retrofitting. Energies 2018, 11, 1128 .

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Jelena Nikolic. Building “with the Systems” vs. Building “in the System” of IMS Open Technology of Prefabricated Construction: Challenges for New “Infill” Industry for Massive Housing Retrofitting. Energies. 2018; 11 (5):1128.

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Jelena Nikolic. 2018. "Building “with the Systems” vs. Building “in the System” of IMS Open Technology of Prefabricated Construction: Challenges for New “Infill” Industry for Massive Housing Retrofitting." Energies 11, no. 5: 1128.