Towards Sustainable and Smart Cities: Replicable and KPI-Driven Evaluation Framework

Ana Quijano; Jose L. Hernández; Pierre Nouaille; Mikko Virtanen; Beatriz Sánchez-Sarachu; Francesc Pardo-Bosch; Jörg Knieilng

doi:10.3390/buildings12020233

Towards Sustainable and Smart Cities: Replicable and KPI-Driven Evaluation Framework

Ana Quijano^*
, Jose L. Hernández
, Pierre Nouaille
, Mikko Virtanen
, Beatriz Sánchez-Sarachu
, Francesc Pardo-Bosch
, Jörg Knieilng

^*Corresponding author for this work

Tecnalia Research & Innovation (TRI)
ESADE Business School
HafenCity University Hamburg
Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning (CEREMA)
CARTIF Technology Center

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Abstract

Sustainability is pivotal in the urban transformation strategy in order to reach more resourceefficient, resilient and smarter cities. The goal of being a sustainable city should drive the decisions for city interventions, and measuring city progress is a key step for this process. There are many initiatives aiming at defining indicators and assessment procedures, but there is no convergence in the definition of terms and application methodologies, making their real implementation complex. Within mySMARTLife project (GA#731297), a KPI-driven evaluation framework has been defined with the aim of covering the multiple pillars of a smart and sustainable city (i.e., environment, energy, mobility, ICT, citizens, economy, governance) in a holistic way. This methodology also defines the concepts and terms to guide urban planners and/or experts at the time of implementing the framework for any specific city. The evaluation framework has been deployed in the cities of Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki, and some lessons have been learned, such as the necessity of providing a definition of measurement boundary to avoid biased interpretations. Due to a co-creation strategy, the main issues from the cities have been taken into consideration in order to increase the replicability of the results.

Original language	English
Article number	233
Number of pages	12
Journal	Buildings
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020233
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank, first, the EC for funding and supporting mySMARTLife project under GA#731297. Second, the authors would like to thank the rest of consortium of mySMARTLife for the contributions in the definition of the framework. Funding: The work presented in this paper is the result of the EU-funded project mySMARTLife, under the H2020 programme with grant agreement no. 731297.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Electromobility
Energy efficiency
Evaluation framework
Indicator
Renewable solutions
Smart city
Sustainable cities

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Towards Sustainable and Smart Cities: Replicable and KPI-Driven Evaluation Framework

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