Journal article
Identifying the criteria for community-centred Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of estate regeneration schemes
S Nava, Z Chalabi, S Bell, P Sendra, E Burman
Heliyon | CELL PRESS | Published : 2024
Abstract
Identifying the overall environmental, and socioeconomic impacts of different estate regeneration scenarios can contribute to the overall sustainability of such schemes. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is an appropriate tool for assessing holistic sustainability. To achieve resilient societies, the interests of communities should be considered in decision making. This paper proposes a method for incorporating community needs in identifying sustainability metrics for the sustainability assessment of estate regeneration schemes. A literature review in the field of sustainability assessment of buildings is conducted followed by a mixed methods empirical research. Collection of data ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research and the collaborative study [62] have followed the ethics' guidance from University College London (UCL) . The collaborative study was a knowledge exchange project and has been approved by the UCL Ethics Committee, Professor Michael Heinrich (Approval ID Number 9089/003) . The rest of the research has obtained a Low Risk Ethics Approval from UCL, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, Dr Francesco Aletta (Approval ID Number 20210907_IEDE_PGR_ETH) . This study complies with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and is registered under the UCL Data Protection (Registration Reference Number Z6364106/2021/06/235) . The main survey and the co-design workshops have been conducted collaboratively with a team of UCL-researchers [62] - Pablo Sendra as the principal investigator, and Sahar Nava as one of the researchers - in partnership with Alton Action and Just Space, funded by the Knowledge Exchange Innovation fund, Higher Education Innovation Fund (Research England) , managed by UCLInnovation & Enterprise. Online written consent was obtained from the participants for the survey study and verbal informed consent was obtained for co-design workshops.This research is funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - Grant Reference EP/N509577/1 and EP/T517793/1.We would like to thank all our participants from the Alton Estate community, and Alton Action group who have generously taken the time and energy to take part in our research.