Aproximación al impacto ambiental de edificios desde la ISO 14040

Abstract

Urban sustainability taken from the ecological approach allows an objective analysis of the physical city , in the process of realization of the built environment. This analysis facilitates qualify a city as environmentally sustainable, based on its basic unit (the building). When measuring the impact the building has on the environment from a life cycle analysis, it is possible to construct models that throw us predictability indicators to interpret the actual behavior of the sustainable city. Current models of environmental assessment as LEED, CASBEE, GBTool or BREAM, measure the energy and materials use stage of the building, ignoring the relationship between the construction process and environment. From this perspective, The research proposal falls from 4 basic levels of analysis organized from the general to the particular, and include: city, urban sustainability, building and construction process in order to understand the direct relationship between from physical materialization process of city and urban environmental sustainability.