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A State-of-the-art Review and Evaluation of Tools for Factory Sustainability Assessment

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: The type of tools for sustainability assessment is manifold and is growing consistently to meet more and more of society's needs. This paper presents a review and evaluation study of existing assessment tools collected from a variety of sources. The aim is to clarify the difference between those sustainability assessments tools and increase factory planner's awareness towards the different tool properties. In this work representative assessment tools are evaluated and described with respect to their specific focus and benefits as well as drawbacks. Based on that a research gap is identified and further research directions can be derived.

Source: Procedia CIRP

DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2013.06.173

Authors: Danfang Chen, Timo Schudeleit, Gerrit Posselt, Sebastian Thiede

Institutions: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Language: English

Topic: Sustainable Building Design and Assessment

Subfield: Building and Construction

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: European Commission, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan