Sustainability Assessment of Built Environment

Gopal Alapure is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering DPES’s Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune. Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.Abraham George is Professor and Former Head at Department Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is a Registered Architect (CoA), Fellow of Indian Institute of Architects (FIIA), Fulbright Fellow (Cornell University, NY).

• List of figures viii List of tables x About the Authors xii Foreword xiv Acknowledgments xvii List of abbreviations xviii 1 Sustainability Assessment Model for Built Environment 1 2 Green and Sustainable Built Environment 12 3 Green and Sustainability Assessment Systems 25 4 Identification and Categorization of Sustainability Assessment Parameters 60 5 Weights and Priorities of Sustainability Assessment Parameters 85 6 Development of Sustainability Assessment Model 97 7 Validation of the Sustainability Assessment Model 111 Bibliography 151 Appendix A: Reconnaissance Survey Questionnaire: I 167 Appendix B: Conventional Delphi – Survey Questionnaire: II 173 Appendix C: AHP – Survey Questionnaire: III 190 Appendix D: Fuzzy Logic Scoring Performance – Survey Questionnaire: IV 212 Appendix E 264 Index 351