37º IAHS World Congress on Housing: - Universidad de Cantabria

XXXVII <strong>IAHS</strong><strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> on HousingOctober 26 – 29, 2010, Santander, SpainCODE: 277“METHODOLOGY TO MEASURE SUSTAINABILITY IN THELIFE CYCLE OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS”Ramón Losada 1; Eduardo Rojí 2; Jesús Cuadrado 3; Marcos Larrauri 41, 2, 3, 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of the Basque Country.e-mail: ramon.losada@ehu.es, eduardo.roji@ehu.esKey words: Sustainability, requirement, criteria, indicators, industrial buildings.Abstract:The growing importance today of establishing a policy orientated towards minimizing thedegradation of our environment of any kind of action, brings to building the need to carry outsustainability studies which accompany these new developments.Development of new economic activities generally leads to the materialization of thecorresponding buildings, which occasionally may mean an important deterioration in theenvironment where it is settled if the necessary measures are not taken. This articleestablishes the analysis bases for sustainability optimization of industrial buildings in eachstage of their life cycle.37º <strong>IAHS</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Congress</strong> On Housing Science 159