PRIORITY business intelligence

Over their life cycle, buildings absorb considerable resources and contribute to the transformation of the environment. As a result, they can have considerable consequences and impacts on the environment. In order to measure and understand this impact, methods of assessment are used to determine the environmental performance of buildings and their related external works.

The framework elaborated in ISO 21931-1:2010, Sustainability in building construction - Framework for methods of assessment of the environmental performance of construction works - Part 1: Buildings, identifies and describes issues to be taken into account in the development and use of methods in assessing the environmental performance of buildings, both new and existing. Such assessments can be used for benchmarking performance and monitoring progress towards improvement and sustainable development.