Future direction for effective sustainable design: A preliminary study on utilisation of existing tools in the architectural practice

Architects need continuous support in their sustainability choices for building design because of the excessive amount and dispersal of information on sustainability. Currently architects utilize BSA tools that provide them general information with a checklist of sustainability measures. However, it is observed that these tools do not fully...

Future direction for effective sustainable design: A survey on the extent and the format of a decision support tool

This paper – as part of a broader research - summarizes the key findings of a survey based on an online questionnaire which has investigated existing insights, needs and expectations of architects about decision support tools (DSTs) to assess sustainability of buildings. The survey is conducted in Dutch context with architectural professionals....