RT Journal Article T1 A proposal for environmental indicators towards industrial building sustainable assessment A1 San-José, José T. A1 Garrucho, Isaac A1 Losada, Ramón A1 Cuadrado, Jesús AB The construction sector carries out a very important role in the development of society. It is a basic component of economic activity, having a great influence on employment generation and country growth. The sector generates appreciable environmental changes and effects throughout the planet, leading to gradual exhaustion of natural resources and contamination of basic elements, such as air, water and soil. Recently, there have been advances in favour of more environmentally friendly buildings. Basically, sustainable construction has centred on residential and office buildings. It could be said that there is a lack of sustainability in the construction of industrial buildings, as they present characteristics which differ from other building typologies. This article aims to assess and analyze industrial building environmental effects, and considers a set of green study criteria, such as: location, materials, energy and water consumption, construction and deconstruction characteristics, and waste management in industrial building. At the same time, the studies are hierarchically structured into different assessment elements, such as: criteria, subcriteria and, finally, indicators, comprising the assessment model. SN 1350-4509 YR 2007 FD 2007-04-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4307 UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/4307 LA eng NO San-José , J T , Garrucho , I , Losada , R & Cuadrado , J 2007 , ' A proposal for environmental indicators towards industrial building sustainable assessment ' , International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology , vol. 14 , no. 2 , pp. 160-173 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13504500709469716 DS TECNALIA Publications RD 29 jul 2024