Sustainability in construction projects: analysis of a building with two sustainable assessment tools

Sustainable Development has found its application in urban scope with the appearance of Agenda 21 in Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and in the construction sector with Sustainable Construction concept in 1994. Since then, the use of sustainability indicators have settled down as necessary means for the control and monitoring of new sustainable objetives within the construction projects. As well, sustainable indicators are used as a tool for decision-making process. In this paper it has been studied the state of knowledge of sustainability indicators system in building sector by means of a revision of the documentation and the analysis of a building case study by two different tools and it is marked the future research in this knowledge area.