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October 24-25, 2016 | Valencia, Spain

International Conference on

Environmental Health & Safety

Volume 4, Issue 5 (Suppl)

Occup Med Health

ISSN:2329-6879 OMHA, an open access journal

Environmental Health 2016

October 24-25, 2016

MODELING LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY IN BUILDINGS USING SYSTEM THINKING

Mohamed Marzouk

and

Mostafa El-hawary

Cairo University, Egypt

he worldwide interest for a formal tool to efficiently evaluate sustainability of buildings is increasing. Many interventions have

been documented for using holistic concepts by introducing rating systems such as LEED of the United States, BREEAM of the

United Kingdom, Pearl of the United Arab Emirates, GPRS of Egypt. All rating systems efficiently evaluated environmental impact

and resources use for an instance of the building in its life cycle. This paper investigates the use of system dynamics to evaluate

building life cycle sustainability though activities interaction behavior. In other words, a way for comprehending impact and effect

of suitability related activities over the whole building life cycle or period of time. A generic framework was developed with an

initial task of selecting key parameters through benchmarking of worldwide rating systems. The output from the benchmarking was

analysed to generate correlation ideas in order to identify the system thinking relationships.

Mohamed Marzouk et al., Occup Med Health Aff 2016, 4:5 (Suppl)