Sustainable neighbourhoods: Assessment tools for renovation and development

Blum, Andreas; Grant, Marcus

Abstract

The main results of the of the European FP5 Project “Sustainable Renovation of Buildings for Sustainable Neighbourhoods” (HQE²R – Haute Qualité Environnementale et Economique Réhabilitation; http://hqe2r.cstb.fr) are a general approach and the necessary tools to promote sustainable development and quality of life on the crucial and likewise challenging level of urban neighbourhoods: The HQE²R toolkit for sustainable neighbourhood regeneration.
This paper presents one of the major parts of the toolkit, the “HQE²R index and directory of assessment tools for the built environment”. After a short section on “What is a sustainable neighbourhood”, theoretical basics of the assessment of urban development projects are presented. The third part gives a brief description of selected examples of existing European evaluation approaches and certificates for sustainable construction on building and neighbourhood scale including an introduction to the HQE²R tools “INDI” (INDicator based sustainability Impact assessment), “ENVI” for environmental concerns and “ASCOT” for the estimation of sustainability related construction costs. The paper concludes with a summary of the assessment experience made within the demonstration neighbourhoods being partners within the project.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: May 27, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 2, 2016
• Journal: Journal of International Research Publications: Ecology and Safety
• Print ISSN: 1313-7999
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 37-54
• Keywords: European union (EU), neighbourhood, regeneration, research and development, sustainability, assessment, evaluation, urban regeneration
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1043022
• Publisher URL: http://ecology-safety.ejournalnet.com/volume-1/research_papers.htm
• Contract Date: Dec 2, 2016