Adaptive reuse offers significant opportunities for energy efficiency and sustainability in the built environment. Design of energy-efficient and high-performance adaptive reuse requires that building performance and simulations tools are used and integrated with the design process. The objectives of this research is to provide building researchers and practitioners with a better understanding ...

Purpose-To determine whether the organisations more strategically committed to its stakeholders present better social and financial performance and, based on this relationship, know the state of the art of the Spanish sectors' approach to the sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach-This paper analyses the sustainability approach of a sample of 52 Spanish listed firms. This process ...

Previous studies of public transport sustainability in cities have been very limited to date, particularly in more developing countries located throughout Asia and the Middle East. This paper assesses the sustainability of urban public transport systems in cities by adopting a quantitative measurement framework containing 15 public transport sustainability indicators. It compares aggregate sust...

Corporate sustainability reporting and the measurement of environmental, social, economic and governance performance are discussed in the paper. These are necessary tools of top management for the company strategy choice of sustainable success. In doing so, the relationship between company performance and these factors is important, therefore, the need to develop the modern and advanced methods...

In this paper, we present the irst generic framework for selecting comprehensive material/energetic sustainability performance indicators (SPIs) for technical systems: the S-Cycle Performance Matrix (SCPMatrix). This novel matrix is comprised of 6 generic sustainability goals, 11 SPI archetypes, and 23 corresponding metrics identiied from our previously developed model of technical system susta...

Sustainability has been assessed by measuring the environmental, social and economic performance. Such diverse measurements could include contrasting attributes in sustainability measures namely environmental, social, and economic attributes. Our research argues that it is necessary to use a multidimensional approach for sustainability knowledge improvements that consist of all sustainability d...

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is a still relatively new technique. One of its main application challenges is interpreting the three dimensions of its results in combined fashion. This paper presents the first attempt at an integrated solution-oriented approach in the LCSA, while simultaneously interpreting the results of the three assessments in a combined fashion toward improving...

This paper addresses the sustainability performance measurement framework as a strategic management approach to integrate social, environmental and economic issues into organizational practice. Resulting on empirical research, the paper presents four broader dimensions that build up the framework: stakeholders, strategies, processes and capabilities. This paper, therefore, proposes an approach ...

Measuring organizational performance is diffi cult, especially when what has to be measured keeps changing. Sustainability concepts have dramatically widened the scope of measurement options and leading organizations are grappling with sustainability reporting, but there is no sign of consensus on a common reporting standard and the competing frameworks are impossibly complex. This paper recogn...