Abstract
This article analyses sustainable urban construction-related indicators
in terms of concerns and trends addressed in the EU Thematic Strategy on the
Urban Environment and its preparatory work results. The indicators developed
for and used by cities were analyzed with the help of the TISSUE browser,
which includes 57 sets of indicators. The indicators were assessed with regard
to their relevance with sustainable urban construction-related concerns. The
concerns considered were as follows: environmental impacts of building; health
and comfort, quality of building; ageing and consideration of disabled;
availability of housing and buildings; readjustment for new business
environment, full exploitation of new technological challenges; age of
building stock, activities in refurbishment and renovation. The article
analyses the consideration of these concerns and related trends in the sets of
indicators under scrutiny, and gives recommendations of indicators that
should be developed in order to support cities in target setting and
monitoring of sustainable urban construction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 247-259 |
| Journal | Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
