Orondo, J., Alonso, L., & Bedoya, C. (2017). Herramienta de evaluación para la toma de decisiones sostenibles, durante el anteproyecto arquitectónico = Evaluation tool for sustainable decision-making during the architectural design. Anales de Edificación, 3(1), 51-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.20868/ade.2017.3535

Abstract

 Many experts have long pointed out that the key to incorporating sustainability into a proposal in an economically viable way is to consider sustainable objectives and criteria from the very first steps of the project because the relationship between the effectiveness of the strategies proposed and The cost of implementing them is more beneficial. The main objective of this work has been the development of a tool, called Green Improvement Tool v1.7, which simplifies as much as possible the questions related to sustainability, giving solution to the needs of its potential users and bringing together several characteristics: Clarity in terms and objectives (to avoid confusion and failure to implement), technical and economic feasibility in its application, sufficient flexibility to adapt to different situations and contexts, ability to promote the use of different technologies and, above all, to stimulate interest of these users in a process of continuous improvement. During the validation process, the tests carried out in real cases indicate that the tool allows more than 80% of the results at the end of the process to be anticipated from the initial phases, with an average reliability of more than 95%.