BSA 2012 - 1st International Conference on Building Sustainability Assessment
is co-organised by the Greenlines Institute for Sustainable Development and the University of Minho and will be held in Porto, Portugal, from 23rd to 25th of May 2012.

Building sustainability involves various relations between built, natural and social systems and therefore comprises a complex of different priorities that require consideration at each stage of a building’s life-cycle. To cope with this complexity and to support sustainability systematic, holistic and practical approaches to building design need to be developed. These approaches are aimed to support the development of a building design that achieves the most appropriate balance between the different sustainability dimensions and can be used with two different objectives: to support the sustainable building design; and to assess and recognized the efforts of the design teams in developing high-performance buildings. Building sustainability assessment methods and tools can be used since the very beginning of the design stage in order to gather and report information for decision-making during the different life-cycle stage of a building.
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BSA 2012 IS A BLIND PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE.

For the first time, it was possible to gather with the Scopus of an international conference the presentation of the most relevant international tools and methodologies for Building Sustainability Assessment (BSA) and Life-cycle Analysis (LCA).

This will be a great opportunity both to practitioners and academia to get in contact with the state-of-the-art of BSA and LCA tools and methods and to understand the main contribution of each approach for the sustainable development of our societies.

Read all about topics, coordinators and schedule HERE.

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BSA 21012 WILL BE HELD AT HOTEL HF IPANEMA PORTO****

Additional information available HERE.