A sustainable building assessment model proposal for new residential buildings in Turkey

The building sector accounts for 40 percentage of the primary energy use and 36 percentage of the energy related carbon dioxide emissions in the industrialized countries In order to reduce the impact of the buildings, measurement of the current status is needed. Rating systems were created according to need for measurement of environmental performance. The main aim of this thesis is developing a building assessment model according to Turkish construction market needs. In order to develop an assessment model first well known systems such as LEED, BREEAM, SBtool, CASBEE, Open House, LenSe, SBAllience and CEN TC 350, ISO TC 59 SC 17 documents have been evaluated. According to review and evaluation of literature and existing systems the main framework of the model has been prepared; main issues and criterion which generates the framework of the model has been prepared in full, mid, core versions. A questionnaire is prepared with core version?s issues and criterion and 84 energy identity document experts from Ordu, Adana, Bursa and İzmir fulfilled these questionnaires. Building assessment systems? issues and criterion weightings are determined according to developer countries needs. This becomes a problem when using these systems in different regions. For that reason Turkey needs to develop an assessment system which is suitable for Turkish construction market needs. The importance of the issues and criterion to each other has been determined with the help questionnaires by using pair wise comparisons. By assessing the questionnaires with analytic hierarchy process the weightings of issues and criterion have been evaluated according to Turkish expert?s decisions. In order to adopt LCA to this model most common 241 different details have been prepared. And these 241 details evaluated by the help of SimaPro software. All these details got a point according to their environmental performance. In adition to these 241 details different window wood, aluminium, PVC window frames have also been evaluated by using SimaPro program?s database. Keywords: Sustainability, life cycle assessment, energy efficiency, energy identity document, green house gas emissions.