Sustainability Assessment Criteria for Building Systems in Iran

Building construction plays crucial role in sustainable development, so Applying sustainability assessment tool in building systems can be effective in optimized decision- making to use them. The main objective of this research is presenting assessment criteria to investigate sustainability in building systems. In this study, assessment criteria firstly are made based on resources review and review of literature. In the following, these criteria are completed, arranged, measured and weighted by questionnaires. the final grouping of criteria are done and sustainability criteria are divided into three general groups as environmental, social and economical criteria and each group is consisting of sub-criteria.the table of criteria and weights and values from questionnaires and checklists, presents a simple scoring system to evaluate and assessment of sustainability. Determination of sustainability criteria is the first step of presenting a local model for sustainability assessment of building systems in coming researches.