Influence of Sustainability on Comprehensive Assessment of Buildings

Abstract

Present design of buildings and the way of building assessment focus primary on decreasing of energy consumption, efficient energy management and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions having significant impact on climate change. This emphasis stems from European Union 2020 targets. However, in the issue of comprehensive building assessment are missing headline targets or limits to achieve type-stable level of indoor environment quality. Under the scope of sustainable building assessment can be considered aspect of acoustics, natural and artificial lighting, air quality or thermal behaviour. By means of sustainable development are applied wider targets directly and indirectly influencing overall building performance. This contribution describes connection between application of specific aims of sustainability applied by BREEAM with final influence on energy efficiency and indoor environment in terms of evaluation of thermal comfort using predicted mean vote and predicted percentage dissatisfied indices. The subject of analysis is office building in Brno.