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Review

Sustainability and Resilience Assessment Methods: A Literature Review to Support the Decarbonization Target for the Construction Sector

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Marta Maria Sesana
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Paolo Dell’Oro
Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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Energies 2024, 17(6), 1440; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17061440
Submission received: 23 February 2024 / Revised: 14 March 2024 / Accepted: 15 March 2024 / Published: 17 March 2024
(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Built Environment, 2nd Volume)
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Abstract

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It is a well-known issue that the 2050 target of carbon emissions neutrality will be reached only with the co-operation of all the interested sectors, and the construction sector could be one of the main contributors to this change. With the built environment globally responsible for about 40% of annual global energy-related CO2 emissions, the construction sector offers an important opportunity to drive transformative change and presents the most challenging mitigation potential among all industrial sectors, which also brings opportunities for adopting sustainability practices and increasing resilience. This paper presents a systematic literature review of those two pivotal concepts to reach the decarbonization goal: sustainability and resilience. Starting from an extensive literature review (2536 scientific documents) based on the PRISMA statement, the definitions and assessment methodologies of those concepts for the construction sector have been studied. The methodological approach followed for their analysis has been conducted on a first selection of 42 documents, further reduced to 12 by using clear inclusion criteria to identify the integrated assessment procedures. The main goal of this study is to clarify the correlation between sustainability and resilience concepts for constructions and their integrated assessment, in line with the latest regulations and market needs. The results show that, currently, sustainability and resilience are mainly evaluated in a distinct way to obtain building energy performance certificates, as well as to quantify the building market value and its complementary contribution to the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle and energy-saving targets towards the emergent issue of climate change. Few works focus on the integrated assessment of both concepts considering the construction industries’ point of view about materials and/or systems for buildings. The novelty of this study is the critical review of the current sustainability and resilience integrated assessment methods used for the construction value chain, declined for four main target groups. Researchers, policymakers, industries, and professionals could gain dedicated insights and practical suggestions to put in practice the elements of circular economy, ecological innovation, and cleaner production, which are essential in order to drive the decarbonization of the built environment.

1. Introduction

During the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in December 2023, the first global stocktake [1] remarked upon the urgency of reducing the ecological footprint and limiting global warming to 1.5 °C according to the Paris Agreement [2], due to the slow progress and results achieved by all sectors towards the decarbonization target. In particular, looking to the construction sector, which is responsible for the consumption of about 50 percent of extracted raw materials, it globally equals to more than 42 billion tonnes of materials consumed in one year; therefore, it requires a wider vision of the different primary human activities in the function of the whole buildings’ life cycle. In fact, four billion people are exposed to climate risks and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline [3], around 99% of the world population breathe polluted air daily, and the existing building stock is expected to double in rate by 2050, dramatically affecting the environmental impacts, due to their increased demand for natural resources. Considering the increasing frequency of natural hazards because of climate change, and the lessons learned from the pandemic about the opportunities to endorse health and wellbeing, boost the circular economy in the built environment, and tackle the climate crisis, the importance of understanding the connection between sustainability (S) and resilience (R) is becoming an asserted worldwide topic for different target groups. In this context, the major objective of this study is to clarify the correlation between those two concepts and their assessment in an integrated way, focusing only on the Construction Sector, their latest regulations, and the market needs.
The existing knowledge on the topic recognized the importance of closing the environmental, economic, and social gaps, by adopting a systemic and holistic approach to evaluate S and R to: (i) support innovation for the built environment against climate change and decarbonize the sector; (ii) incentivize circularity and regeneration against the old linear economic model, and (iii) improve equity, comfort, and wellbeing for people in buildings. In particular, the previous literature addressed different aspects of their evaluation: Achour et al. [4] underlined the importance of overcoming the limits of the methodological theory, passing through its application on real cases; Mari et al. [5] focuses on the uncertainty assessment level of those concept; while Negri et al. [6] and Lopez-Castro et al. [7] address the analysis only on the supply chain to identify the S and R influence on its network design. More recent studies proposed a unified framework for their assessment of the building value chains, but they remarked on the importance of integrating their evaluation, covering the whole building process (Roostaie et al. [8]) in relation to specific building typology (Phillips et al. [9]), or under environmental risks and hazards (Jia et al. [10]). Murtagh et al. [11] stated that insufficient research has been conducted on climate resilience in the built environment and the assessment approach must address the temporal nature of value and sustainability because the value changes over time. Moreover, they remarked on the need to quantify the performances and the impacts of both existing buildings and future ones, connecting different actors of the value chain to increase their awareness of a safer, healthier, and more sustainable world. In this context, it is important to highlight how ‘energy efficiency first’ is a fundamental principle of EU energy policy as stated also in the revised Energy Efficiency Directive (EU/2023/1791) [12], which establishes a common framework of measures to promote energy efficiency within the European Union (EU), identifying rules to implement energy efficiency as a priority, with a harmonized approach, across all sectors including industry, transport, and the construction and renovation of buildings.
Nevertheless, energy efficiency is only one piece of the larger puzzle of the sustainable development and resilience evaluation for climate change. This is the main goal of this work, the reason why it is worth specifying that, being not the core aspect of the study, it has been cited to remark upon its importance and complementarity, on one hand, to reach the decarbonization target for the construction value chain, and, on the other, to increase the renovation rate of the existing buildings—in line with the “Renovation Wave” initiative—by implementing energy efficiency renovation measures with market-ready and technically mature solutions for professionals [13], promoting new renewable energy solutions [14] and adopting digital logbook and renovation passport tools [15] or emerging solution as blockchain [16] to manage and store data for construction. Salvalai et al. [17], moreover, remark that innovative green technologies and practices play a crucial role in shaping a sustainable future but are part of a broader narrative that seeks to redefine the building relationship with the environment. Innovative and resilience building, in this context, exemplifies how open innovation, when guided by sustainability principles, can create solutions that are not only functional and aesthetically pleasing but also environmentally responsible and energy-resource-efficient throughout their life cycle.
Even at the policy level, as anticipated, the importance of integrating the resilience concept for buildings besides the well-known one of sustainability is becoming a requested issue as testified by the just-launched worldwide initiative called “Buildings and Construction for Sustainable Cities: New Key Partnerships for Decarbonization, Adaptation, and Resilience” at the COP28 [1]. The goal is to join forces and skills between governments and stakeholders to develop innovative technological solutions, regulations, standards, and frameworks concerning the carbon neutrality target by 2050. The core actions agreed upon are strictly linked to the importance of coupling and quantifying S and R, where sustainability refers not only to the environmental impact but also to the economic and social impacts such as investing in nature-based materials and solutions, scaling up low-carbon building traditions, boosting the refurbishment and reuse of existing buildings, and reducing the embodied carbon, not just the operational ones.
The main objective of this research is to fill in the gap between the need to increase awareness and the potentialities of the S and R integrated assessment methods for buildings in the current practice of different target groups (researchers, policymakers, industries, and professionals), clarifying the limits but also the opportunities of applying a coupled approach to those concepts. In this content, the novelty of this study is to provide dedicated insights and practical suggestions for the above-mentioned users’ categories, to introduce the elements of circular economy, ecological innovation, and cleaner production into the current practice of the construction sector to boost its decarbonization path.

2. Methodology

The overall methodology followed to perform the analysis summary has been graphically summarized in Figure 1, which also represents the structure of the manuscript. In fact, besides Section 1 where the topic is introduced, Section 2 corresponds to the methodology phase presentation, followed by the results phase divided into two parts (Section 3 and Section 4) to clearly illustrate, respectively, the single concept (S and R). The final phases are the discussion, in Section 5, where the results have been critically reviewed focusing only on the integrated methods for S and R assessment through a SWOT analysis and the conclusions, in Section 6, where the main observations and key takeaway have been described considering different target groups within the construction sector. To achieve this objective, a systematic literature review has been conducted following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses) statement [18].
There are four steps followed to perform this analysis: (i) comprehensive research in multiple databases for the identification of articles of interest; (ii) abstract-level screening of the documents; (iii) full text-level screening of the documents (eligibility), and (iv) final inclusion for the literature review, with two most popular databases for peer-reviewed scientific articles (Scopus and Web of Science).
Table 1 summarizes the number of documents considered, respectively, for S and R, considering the inclusion criteria used per step of the PRISMA statement. Starting from a wide number of documents in the identification step (S = 1521; R = 1015), the analysis led to a reduced number of documents selected by a series of criteria through the intermediate steps of screening and eligibility, until the final step of inclusion (S = 20; R = 22).
The definition of the query and the inclusion criteria are the main important aspect of the PRISMA application statement because they could be affected by subjective judgments; therefore, to ensure a certain grade of scientific data quality, strict filters were used to select a more effective, connected, and feasible definition and methods for S and R assessment within the construction sector. The distinct paths followed for sustainability and resilience analysis are illustrated in detail, and the respective results are graphically represented by a bibliometric network graph using VOSviewer software, version 1.6.20.
The first step of the PRISMA statement application foresees the query definition by the most relevant and used terms to define and clarify the topic on which the state of the art must be conducted. In the case of the presented study, the core subject is the decarbonization of the construction sector by the assessment of sustainability and resilience; therefore, the initial general terms used to conduct the analysis are: decarbonization, construction sector, construction industry, buildings, definition, and assessment method coupled with the term sustainability and resilience, respectively, for their two dedicated path, before the integrated ones. In all cases, a Boolean syntax was used to structure the queries, allowing the combination of keywords with operators such as AND, NOT, and OR, listed as follows: (“building* sustain*” OR “construction sector sustain*” OR “construction industr* sustain*” OR “sustain* of the construction sector” OR “sustain* construction sector” OR “sustain* of the construction industry” OR “sustain* of construction industr*” OR “sustain* construction industr*” OR “sustain* of building*” OR “sustain* building*” OR “sustain* of a building*”) AND (“concept*” OR “definition*).
Moreover, the use of an asterisk at the end of the query allows the possibility to consider in the research all the potential alternative endings, such as “sustainable”, “sustainability”, “industry”, “industries”, etc.
Titles, keywords, and abstracts are the chosen fields on which the query of the above-mentioned terms has been performed (TITLE-ABS-KEY). As anticipated, this procedure allows us to better address and filter the results; in fact, the 2274 manuscripts identified by Scopus and Web of Science became 1521 after the removal of duplicates.
Figure 2 graphically represents the most common keywords used in at least five of those publications. The most recurrent keywords are sustainability (218 occurrences); sustainable building (131); green building (59); energy efficiency (49); and construction industry (29). During the second step of the PRISMA statement, the selection of the manuscripts focused only on documents written in the English language and which are open access (544 documents). The eligibility step allowed the reduction of the manuscript to 226 documents, excluding the ones with goals out of the scope of the abstract evaluation.
Only 20 out of the 226 documents were then included in the final list after a full-text screening because they contain a clear and consistent definition of sustainability for the construction sector.
The analysis for the definition of resilience in construction followed the same steps and inclusion criteria used for the sustainability path. The main difference was the definition of a specific query by selecting the most relevant and used term and concepts to define “resilience for the construction sector”, presented as follows: (“building* resilien*” OR “construction sector resilien*” OR “construction industr* resilien*” OR “resilien* of the construction sector” OR “resilien* construction sector” OR “resilien* of the construction industry” OR “resilien* of construction industr*” OR “resilien* construction industr*” OR “resilien* of building*” OR “resilien* building*” OR “resilien* of a building*”) AND (“concept*” OR “definition*”). This step allows for targeting and filtering the results; in fact, the 1532 manuscripts identified in the databases become 1015 after the removal of duplicates.
Figure 3 illustrates the most common keywords used in at least five of those publications. The most recurrent keywords are: resilience (314 occurrences); climate change (51); vulnerability (30); sustainability (27); and urban resilience (25). The inclusion of the term ‘sustainability’ as one of the most frequently used keywords is particularly noteworthy, as it demonstrates the interconnection of the two concepts. Following the same criteria used for the sustainability analysis, the screening step allowed us to reduce the number of manuscripts to 398, and then, in the eligibility step, only 104 out of those 398 documents were selected. Finally, only 22 documents remain in the inclusion step, due to a full-text screening, maintaining only ones that contain a clear and agreed definition of resilience for the construction sector.
The results obtained from the sustainability path (20 documents) and the resilience path (22 documents) led to the results step of the methodology in which the SR definition and methods were combined to identify and select only the results with a consistent integration of the two concepts in term of definition and assessment. The application of this inclusion criteria determines the selection of 12 documents.
The final step of the methodology corresponds to the core aspect of the overall approach because the critical review of the selected documents aims to highlight the challenges, potentialities, and limits of the SR assessment methodologies to boost the decarbonization target from different points of view. To address this scope in a precise and complete way, the authors applied the SWOT analysis to the 12 final selected documents by reviewing and describing them by strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and potential threats, due to the integration of sustainability and resilience assessment and the clusterization by four main target groups of the construction sector (researchers, policymakers, industries, and professionals).

3. Sustainability in Construction: Definitions and Assessment Methods

Section 3 presents the results of the systematic literature review performed on the sustainability in construction concept in a wider approach that comprehends the analysis of the main sustainability definitions, to clarify the possible declination of the term, and also the main assessment methodologies currently used in practice.

3.1. Sustainability Definitions for the Construction Sector

The results of the review analysis highlight the multiple declinations and approaches to the definition of the sustainability concept for the construction value chain, depending on the field, perspective, methods, and objectives considered. They all derive from the specific declinations of the notion of sustainable development towards the three areas: environment, society, and economy. One is the aspect that appears in all the studied sustainability definitions, summarized and presented chronologically in Table A1 (Appendix A), for the construction sector: the implementation of sustainable development principles along the entire building life. This includes all the building stages, from the initial planning and design to the sourcing of raw materials, the use until the demolition, and waste management processes.
Sustainability in construction is a comprehensive approach that endeavors to keep a harmony between the impacts of the three above areas [19] with no single aspect overshadowing the others, but, in analyzing literature, a disparity in the attention given to these three dimensions emerges.
In the construction industry, environmental sustainability focuses on promoting and increasing the efficient utilization of natural sources for decreasing consumptions and ameliorating the comfort of the surrounding environment [20]. Social sustainability includes various factors such as community progress, health and safety, public participation, user comfort, and equality [21], while the economic sphere focuses on the financial advantages derived from the construction process and industry, which comprehends not only the economic cost of the products and materials but also the overall impacts and external benefits of the global building life [22].
Lima et al. [23], in their critical review spanning from 2000 to 2017 on the implementation of sustainable aspects in construction, underlined that the social sphere covers 0.2% of the overall studies against a value of 37.9% for the environmental sphere. Then, combining those two spheres, the values reached 5.5%, while the three spheres together covered 35.3%. These results underlined, on one hand, the need to further evaluate the social sustainability in construction and, on the other, the increased interest in combining the whole sphere in the sustainability assessment for construction, similar to the single environmental one.

3.2. Sustainability Assessment Methods for the Construction Sector

The sustainability assessment methodologies for the construction sector have been in use for more than three decades with the scope to check and describe the building’s characteristics under specific and verifiable standards and the use of selected criteria from the three main sustainability spheres.
The aim is to collect and manage in a common database the information along all the steps of the building design from the early phase to construction, use, and maintenance, based on key performance indicators to quantify the sustainability value or ranking score, both for new or existing buildings, and, principally, to gather green or energy performance certification.
Hastings and Wall [24] analyzed the pivotal experiences of sustainability building assessment methods, clustering them into four groups which, respectively, focus on the following: cumulative energy demand (CED); life cycle analysis (LCA) focusing on the ecological aspects; and total quality assessment (TQA) quantifying the three spheres.
Years later, Berardi [25] deeply analyzed the first three groups highlighting the importance of not rigidly considering the division, because some sustainability assessments partially belong to different categories, but, at the same time, his work provides further insights into the sustainability assessment, clarifying which and how many different parameters are evaluated.
Most of the CED methods focus only on one parameter that belongs to the energy measurement field, while LCA evaluates the impacts of more than one parameter.
Therefore, those two first categories follow a quantitative approach assessment; instead, the last one could provide a qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation. Using the Berardi classification to further complete this work on sustainability assessment, this study analyzed the results collected within the eligibility PRISMA phase, intending to update the characterization of the sustainability assessment method of the most recent one in use and respondent to regulations and standards for the construction value chain.
Starting from the results of the literature review, the work of Akadiri et al. [26] appears to be in line with the CEM group, presenting a comprehensive quantitative framework that aims to enhance the accuracy of evaluating the energy demand and consumption for both new and existing building properties, but, considering that the duration of their model evaluation covers the entire building life, it can be also used as a complementary tool of TQA methods.
The Hill and Bowen [27] method is one of the first frameworks that outlined a multi-domain procedure. Similar to this, other studies emphasized the benefits of life cycle thinking, which are perfectly classified as an LCA category.
Similarly, Sev [28] highlights the importance of using an LCA method in his research enlarging the system boundary conditions, which also incorporated the use of renewable energy sources and a performance-based design to provide a comprehensive outline of a sustainable system.
The LCA methodologies, outlined according to the ISO 14040 series [29], are usually structured according to four specific steps—goal and scope definition, inventory creation, impact assessment, and result interpretation—and they were pivotal to the integration of sustainability and resilience assessment [30].
A further declination of the LCA method is the life cycle costing (LCC) one, which places a greater emphasis on the economic aspect, providing not only a more precise estimation of the global ownership cost from cradle to gate, but also a valuable analysis in order to quantify the building’s present value, useful for supporting professionals, owners, and policymakers in building investments [31].
The last presented methods belong to the TQA category, focusing on a different and more qualitative evaluation of multidomain sustainability assessment related to the management and procurement procedure, construction site, stakeholder engagement, and social role and impacts.
Lam et al. [32] proposed a comprehensive management approach feasible for public and private buildings with a focus on procurement, costs, and the operation of projects, providing to the stakeholders a strategic and clear roadmap for construction interventions. Presley and Meade [33] developed a sustainability benchmarking framework that incorporated strategic and activity-based criteria feasible for different kind of building projects to compare with specific indicators.
Additionally, Oyegoke et al. [34] prioritized the application of the Specialist Task Organization (STO) procurement approach to achieve the three goals of sustainability by incorporating sustainable environmental requirements from the beginning of the building construction, employing value engineering management and whole-life costing in the initial phases to enhance overall value, and recognizing the positive impact of professionals’ participation in the public and social benefits for stakeholders.
Tan et al. [35] proposed a comprehensive approach to stakeholder engagement concerning sustainability, taking into account the contractor’s competitiveness and performance, in line with the findings of Holloway and Parrish [36], who emphasized the pivotal contractors’ responsibility for the accomplishment of sustainable buildings. Bal et al. [37] identified six essential steps for ensuring stakeholder engagement, including identifying key stakeholders, linking them to specific sustainability targets, prioritizing their involvement, managing their expectations, measuring performance, and translating objectives into actionable plans. In terms of addressing sustainability in onsite construction, several articles offered specific solutions. Sameh [38] advocated for the utilization of conventional building materials and technological solutions to support the three core sustainability aspects.
Similarly, Bae and Kim [39] explored the advantages of implementing lean construction to contribute to sustainability by enhancing project efficiency. However, the feasibility of adopting sustainable and lean construction practices depends on factors like project size and worker awareness. Edum, Fotwe, and Prince [40] focused on the social sphere of the sustainability assessment on their developed methodology, within the SUE-MoT (Sustainable Urban Environment—Model and Toolkit) project, to address the metrics, models, and toolkits for the evaluation of urban development. The outcome of the project is a toolkit that serves as a thorough and transparent framework that motivates important decision-makers to evaluate the sustainability of urban environments systematically, considering factors such as the scale, life cycle, location, context, and values held by all stakeholders.
In conclusion, the comprehensive critical review of the overall sustainability’s studied definitions remarked upon the importance of tackling the three pillars (economic, environmental, and social) under which the concept has been developed since its initial definition, and, regarding the sustainability assessment, the core topic included in almost all the investigated methodologies is the energy performance evaluation along the whole life cycle which recalls the CEM and LCA categories. The methods clustered into those categories result as the most continuously updated according to the respective regulations and standards. One CEM example is the well-known instrument, the so-called energy performance certification (EPC), introduced in Europe by the Energy Performance Building Directive for the first time in 2002 [41] and recently improved by the EPBD recast in 2023 [42] to increase the data quality of the tool further and to introduce new indicators for supporting the decarbonization target goal by 2050.
The EPC assessment, in fact, being mandatory for any property transaction (buying or renting), has become a hot topic in the last decades, and an extensive literature review coupled with EU-funded projects’ results are available, in which they underlined the positive effects and the potentialities they might have on supporting the decarbonization goals, and the use of a qualified sustainability assessment method since the early design phase of building projects, combined with the access to a valuable and consistent database from the public building repository [43,44,45,46,47].

4. Resilience in Construction: Definitions and Assessment Methods

Similarly to the approach used for the sustainability focus, in this section, the results of the literature review performed on the resilience concept are presented, starting from an overview of resilience definitions, followed by a critical analysis of the main assessment methodologies currently in use.

4.1. Resilience Definitions for the Construction Sector

The resilience concept has been declined and studied in various forms concerning the diverse areas of application including psychology, urban planning, and civil engineering [48]. A general definition of the resilience concept refers to the positive adaptation or the capacity to slightly adapt the original condition of the system to a new setup after adversity. For decades, and according to the scientific sector of analysis, the concept evolved simultaneously to scientific knowledge of the specific area of interest, and, notwithstanding the term use expanding rapidly, there is no consensus on a common operational and assessment description of the concept.
Focusing on the construction sector, the critical review of the resilience definitions collected with the application of the PRISMA statement reveals the presence of two recurrent perspectives to which the concept has been declined: the ecological and engineering points of view. Ecological resilience refers to systems with multiple regimes that can be shifted due to a disturbance. Meanwhile, resilience engineering, also called “bounce-back” resilience, highlights the ability of a system to quickly change back to its original state, after a disruption [49]. This perspective applies to systems that operate in a unique and steady model, whereas ecological resilience is relevant to systems with various steady models, for example, ecological and social models, ICT, or even energetical model networks [50].
Another distinction that emerges specifically for construction is the possibility to categorize the definitions according to four main dimensions: (i) technical resilience, which encompasses all aspects related to construction and other technological considerations; (ii) organizational resilience, which pertains to the management plan, maintenance activities, and emergency response strategies; (iii) social resilience, the third dimension, which involves examining the impact on society and implementing measures to mitigate adverse effects; and (iv) economic resilience, which addresses both direct and indirect costs associated with the using and maintenance of the building.
Bruneau et al. [51] presented a comprehensive study on resilience encompassing this classification and providing examples for each dimension. In parallel to this distinction, various studies [9,49,50] presented the resilience concept by four key properties, called “4R”, to properly design and build resilient buildings: (i) robustness; (ii) redundancy; (iii) resourcefulness; and (iv) rapidity.
The interdependent nature of the 4R attributes means that they inseparably interact with each other. For instance, the velocity and efficacy of the recovery process are largely determined by the properties of redundancy and resourcefulness. In other words, a higher level of resourcefulness and redundancy results in a faster recovery process. Moreover, numerous studies analyze the connection between the concepts of resilience and readiness, emphasizing that the capacity of a system to effectively address future challenges relies heavily on its level of preparedness and the capacity of social actors to learn from past experiences [9]. Besides those characterizations, a specific declination for buildings is recurrent in recent publications referring to the resilience of buildings to different hazards, including natural disasters and energy supply interruptions, and is frequently related to the principles of adaptability, recovery, and resistance, strictly connected to the architectural and technological solutions and system of the built environment.
Furthermore, from a deep analysis of the literature review results, there are two parameters often cited in the R definitions as a metric to define the resilience and resistance building level: the reduction of damage and the time it takes for recovery are influenced by the extent of the damage to building components. In this context, Folke et al. [52] emphasize the resilience capacity of buildings to withstand various disruptions and emergencies, such as air pollution and pandemics, by returning quickly to their original state.

4.2. Resilience Assessment Methods for the Construction Sector

Resilience assessment methods for the construction sector register a more recent diffusion instead of the sustainability ones and they mainly focus on the estimation of the building sector’s capability to face both adaptation and risks concerning climate change. In reviewing the literature review results for the R evaluation, there are four key recurrent metrics used by the most in-use resilience assessment methods for construction: risk, resistance, costs, and labelling.
Considering these categories, Levine [53] identifies functionality quantification as a straightforward approach to measuring resilience due to its clear definition, variable-based description, purposeful management, evaluation against known hazards, and critical objective of quantifying resilience. If, on one hand, he acknowledges the existence of tools and models such as ASPIRE and MCEER for assessing infrastructure resilience, on the other, he also highlights the difficulties in creating robust models to quantify damage, shocks, costs, recovery times, and other factors.
Besides those quantitative indicators, other factors such as the financial cost of repairs, the duration of repairs, and the number of casualties is commonly included for the building’s resistance [54]. Resource diversity and disaster management are instead qualitative indicators less frequently assessed by community resilience frameworks, challenging their quantification [55].
The labelling system is a widely employed method for measuring and quantifying resilience. Similar to the rating systems that assign points to assess sustainability in buildings, new tools have emerged to evaluate and quantify the resilience of buildings to hazards. One of these methods is the Certification of the Predisposition of Resistance of Edifices to Disasters (CePRED). CePRED utilizes a “blue shields” labelling system to assess buildings, with five blue shields representing a very high level of resistance against potential disasters and extreme conditions. In contrast, one blue shield indicates poor performance in withstanding such conditions [56].
Nevertheless, to meet the increasing demand for measuring and quantifying resilience, various other methods have been employed, including benefit assessment models, cost-to-benefit assessment models, a resilience index, decision flow diagrams, and performance-based frameworks, among others [57].
In conclusion, the implementation of those R methodologies is strictly linked to the contingent needs or goals for the specific projects or sector to trigger adaptation and lead construction sector adaptation in line with the decarbonization target. Moreover, similarly to the sustainability assessment methodologies, they cover a variety of contexts and metrics, attributable to the three spheres of environmental, economic, and social. This aspect is a key starting point for the integrated definition and assessment of S and R, as deeply described in Section 5.

5. Discussions

The distinct presentation of the literature results for S and R highlights a strong correlation and interdependence between those two concepts and, consequently, their assessments. The sustainability paradigm plays a fundamental responsibility in the development of its goals, the so-called SDGs, that request mutual attempts to be inclusive, sustainable, and resilient forthcoming both for the environment and society. In parallel, the resilience paradigm has revolutionized the understanding of risk, emphasizing the need for system adaptation after extreme events. The growing concerns surrounding climate change have further prompted the exploration of the interconnection between these two concepts and their integration within the built environment.
In literature, several authors have examined the potential connections or disparities between the concepts of resilience and sustainability. Some of them perceive the two concepts as slightly different viewpoints on the same issue [58].
For instance, Walker and Holling [59] observed the importance of considering resilience in a participatory framework to manage the sustainability of the social–ecological system. On the other hand, there are also studies in which sustainability and resilience are viewed as distinct but interconnected conceptual paradigms, where, for example, resilience is a precondition for achieving sustainable development.
Similarly, Levin et al. [60] emphasized the dependency of the resilient assessment through a quantitative approach for environmental and social sustainability for technical systems. Arrow et al. [61] underlined that economic activities can only be sustainable if they are supported by resilient ecosystems. Perrings [62] further claimed that a development approach cannot be considered sustainable if it lacks resilience.
Lebel et al. [63] debated on the need to enhance society’s capability of handling resilience and reaching sustainable development.
Lastly, Gencturk et al. [64], referring to a hazard-prone built environment, stated that a building cannot be considered sustainable without an adequate level of structural resilience. Lew et al. [65] argued that the existing reluctance to assess sustainability and resilience in an integrated way is a consequence of the lack of a clear and precise definition and conceptualization of those terms and the presence of shared assumptions, methods, and metrics.
In this context, Marchese et al. [66] studied the potential synergic integration of sustainability and resilience for 17 existing management methodologies clustering them into three relationship typologies: (i) resilience as a component of sustainability; (ii) sustainability as a component of resilience; and (iii) sustainability and resilience as separate conceptual objectives. In the first typology, resilience is considered a crucial component for the broader and integrated system assessment, under the premise that a resilience increase proportionally contributes to the overall sustainability level, but it does not work in the reverse direction.
The second relationship typology described the opposite situation of the first one, remarking upon the dependency of sustainability from the resilience concept. The third typology is characterized by a clear distinction of the two concepts with independent goals, without any hierarchical relation, either complementing or competing.
Considering also the assessment methodologies of sustainability and resilience for constructions, the results presented, respectively, in Section 3.2 and 4.2 highlighted that the approaches shared certain similarities but showed also some disparities, above all in terms of boundary conditions, and assumptions for the system to model and metrics. Precisely, these aspects are the added values found in the 12 S and R integrated assessment methodologies [67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79] selected with the inclusion criteria, as graphically represented in the methodological framework in Figure 1.
The evaluation of those approaches, corresponding to the last phase of this study, highlighted multiple benefits both for different context applications and target groups. The critical review of these results has been performed by a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis to identify all the possible challenges and limits for the use of those approaches and to draft a multidomain vision under different perspectives.
Considering the different and important considerations obtained by the critical review of the selected documents, the results are presented in two distinct ways: Figure 4 highlights the keywords per each SWOT plot to visualize immediately the respective importance by a word cloud representation, while Table 2 (strengths and opportunities) and Table 3 (weaknesses and threats) deeply analyzed the SR integrated methodologies by identifying the respective authors and year of definition, and providing a more detailed description of the concepts.

6. Conclusions

The presented work aims to support different target groups in enhancing comprehension and use of the existing integrated sustainability and resilience assessment methodologies for the construction sector. Starting from a systematic literature review on both concepts, the work focused then on the integration of those aspects, being remarked upon in the existing literature [9,50,58] the urgent need to have a more holistic vision considering the climate changes, the correlated environmental risks and impacts, and the decarbonization targets, instead of limiting the construction sector goals to the energy efficiency.
The critical review was performed through the application of the SWOT analysis to better understand the opportunities, challenges, potential threats, and benefits of the existing sustainability and resilience integrated methodologies for buildings and the actors of this value chain. The results benefit multiple target groups, which can help them to identify the pros and cons of each methodology, according to their point of view.
Referring to the results collected and summarized in Table 2 and Table 3 of Section 5, the main tentative scenarios for the four potential target groups (researchers, policymakers, industries, and professionals) have been described as follows:
(i)
Researchers can identify in each reviewed method a starting point for structuring integrated sustainability and resilience analysis methodologies for each value chain of the construction sector. In particular, researchers can find in the framework developed by Chhabraet al. [70] a rational probabilistic approach that can be easily integrated with LCA analyses to calculate the trade-offs within different design alternatives.
(ii)
Policymakers can find in the methodologies developed by Angeles et al. [73] and Asadi et al. [72] a unified multi-criteria framework to promote the adoption of specific construction methods, sustainable and resilient materials, and energy-efficient technologies. In particular, Angeles et al. [73] studied a method that easily integrates life cycle assessment (LCA) analyses and BIM methodology in order to evaluate building SR levels. At this stage, however, the studies on the application of the two methods are restricted to low- and mid-rise buildings with specific characteristics.
(iii)
Industries of the construction value chain have increased their interest and awareness about their sustainability assessment and resilience evaluation level in recent decades with a higher peak after the pandemic emergency. The initial application of those concepts was focused principally on the economic sphere of both sustainability and resilience, specifically for the production and selling categories of the industry. With the increased awareness of the potentialities of the S and R assessment also for other spheres such as social and environmental ones, industries have started to invest in procedures to certify their overall sustainability level concerning market needs and requests for technologically resilient and innovative products. Referring to the Roostaie et al. [76] and Sesana [79] studies, they can implement some lessons learned for the decarbonization path sector, assessing their SR level in comparison with the currently available results for some companies. Using the DEMATEL approach, they can assess whether their operations are sustainability enhancers or detractors based on their impacts. However, the application and diffusion into practice of this method are limited by the long duration and large number of queries on which it is structured and the need for advanced skills to perform the assessment. While the SARIA methodology [79], being developed specifically for steel construction industries, is a user-friendly ready-to-use assessment methodology for these specific industries and needs an adaptation for use by other value chains, nevertheless, being a tool developed in such a clear and modular structure, it can be easily adapted, slightly integrating specific details for another industry value chain.
(iv)
Professionals may use the frameworks proposed by Yang et al. [69] and Asadi et al. [71] to analyze and compare the available materials and construction solutions and categorize them according to stakeholders’ preferences and risk levels. Additionally, professionals can also take into consideration the use of the Taherkhani et al. [75] method to study the possibility of executing building renovations through urban district regeneration. All those methods are limited by the need for advanced skills to perform the analysis and detailed data available only by a specific data-monitoring collection and campaign.
Theoretically, the presented work advances the existing literature by detecting the main potentialities and limits in the field of the construction sector for the integrated sustainability and resilience assessment. The analysis of the literature through the PRISMA statement allows the emergence of different perspectives to interpret the relationship between sustainability and resilience clearly and in the function of the goal of the assessment. From the practical point of view, the analysis provides to the building sector community a clearer idea about the concepts of sustainability and resilience according to their relationship and the evaluation methodology. The establishment of different perspectives about how sustainability and resilience can be interpreted and managed is crucial for defining a further implementation into the construction value chain, but also for properly communicating those concepts to different stakeholders.
Future research should also quantify, through a real case study, how the sustainability and resilience assessment could contribute effectively to reaching the decarbonization target goal of the construction sector.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization and methodology, M.M.S.; investigation, P.D.; data curation, M.M.S.; writing—original draft preparation, P.D.; writing—review and editing, M.M.S.; visualization, P.D.; supervision, M.M.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Appendix A

Table A1. Concept of sustainability in the construction sector.
Table A1. Concept of sustainability in the construction sector.
Author/s (Year)Research ObjectiveSustainability Definitions for the Construction Sector
Kibert (1994) [80]Sustainable construction“Sustainable construction represents the creation and responsible management of a healthy built environment based on ecological and resource-efficient principles”.
Vanegas, DuBose, Pearce (1995) [81]Sustainable design and construction“Sustainable designers and constructors will approach each project with the entire life cycle of the facility in mind, not just the initial capital investment. Instead of thinking of the built environment as an object separate from the natural environment, it should be viewed as part of the flow and exchange of matter and energy which occurs naturally within the biosphere”.
Bourdeau (1999) [82]Sustainability in construction sector“…reaching sustainable development through environmental, socio-economic and cultural aspects. It is divided into three parts: (i) Management and organization, (ii) Product and building issues, and (iii) Resources consumption”.
CIB, UNEP-IETC (2002) [83]Sustainable construction“...principles of sustainable development are applied to the comprehensive construction cycle, from the extraction and beneficiation of raw materials, through the planning, design and construction of buildings and infrastructure, until their final deconstruction and management of the resultant waste. It is a holistic process aiming to restore and maintain harmony between the natural and built environments, while creating settlements that affirm human dignity and encourage economic equity”.
Ortiz, Castekks, Sonnemann (2009) [84]Sustainable construction“Enhancing quality of life and thus improve social, economic and environmental conditions for future generations”.
Edum-Fotwe, Price (2009) [40]Sustainable construction“Meet the needs of the present and future generation without compromising our and their living standards”.
Oyegoke, McDermott, Abbott (2009) [34]Sustainable construction“Encompasses diverse areas covering construction process (supply chain) and business development”.
Shen, Tam, Tam, Ji (2010) [85]Sustainable construction companies“About construction business, sustainability is about achieving a win-win outcome for contributing to the improved environment and the advanced society, and at the same time for gaining competitive advantages and economic benefits for construction companies”.
Akadiri, Chinyio, Olomolaiye (2012) [26]Sustainable building“The practice of sustainable building refers to various methods in the process of implementing building projects that involve less harm to the environment, increased reuse of waste in the production of building material, beneficial to the society, and profitable to the company”.
Berardi (2013) [86]Sustainable building“A sustainable building can be defined as a healthy facility designed and built in a cradle-to-grave resource-efficient manner, using ecological principles, social equity, and life-cycle quality value, and which promotes a sense of sustainable community”.
Castro, Mateus, Bragança (2014) [87]Sustainable building“A building is a sustainable building when it is built in an ecologically oriented way that reduces its impact on the environment”.
Yilmaz, Bakis (2015) [19]Sustainable construction“Sustainable construction is application of sustainable development principles to a building life cycle from planning the construction, constructing, mining raw material to production and becoming construction material, usage, destruction of construction, and management of wastes. It is a holistic process which aims to sustain harmony between the nature and constructed environment by creating settlement which suit human and support economic equality”.
Spinks (2015) [88]Sustainable building“Sustainable building is both a social and a physical construct. As a social construction, it involves a process of interaction amongst different groups with the shared goal of addressing and producing action that will progress a sustainability agenda. As a physical construction, a sustainable building is a process of technical engagement of materials and system flows which collectively contribute to the production of a structure that fulfils the principles of a sustainability agenda”.
Conte (2018) [89]Sustainable construction“Sustainable construction symbolizes the great, all-embracing, promise to contribute significantly to sustainable development, locally and globally, improving the built environment while protecting the natural environment—the way to establish a balance between human life and nature without one prevailing over the other and, thus, their long-lasting coexistence”.
Liu, Pyplacz, Ermakova, Konev (2020) [90]Sustainable construction“Sustainable Construction is defined as a construction process, which is carried out by incorporating the basic objectives of Sustainable Development. Such construction processes would thus bring environmental responsibility, social awareness, and economic profitability to a new built environment and facilities for the wider community”.
Goh, Chong, Jack, Faris (2020) [91]Sustainable construction“Sustainable construction ensures the delivery of environmental, social and economic sustainability in a balanced and optimal manner, without one pillar dominating any others”.
Arcila Novelo, Alvarez Romero, Corona Suarez, Morales Ramirez (2021) [92]Social sustainability in the construction sector“SS in construction projects is the capacity of buildings to positively contribute to the SDGs, and human rights of persons directly or indirectly involved in any of the stages of the life cycle, considering that people in conditions of poverty and vulnerability are those who receive the strongest adverse effects of unsustainable lifestyles, consumption, and construction”.
Utomo, Astarini, Rahmawati, Setijanti, Nurcahyo (2022) [93]Sustainable building“Sustainable buildings are intended as buildings designed and built to reduce the adverse effects of human activities, based on three main pillars, namely the economic aspects, social aspects, and environmental aspects”.
Li, Wang, Zhang (2022) [94]Sustainable building and construction industry“In the building and construction industry, sustainability can be specified as minimizing waste and negative environmental impacts, maintaining low energy and resource consumption, and maximizing safety and efficiency throughout the full life cycle—planning and design (PD), construction (C), operation and maintenance (OM), and end of use or demolition of buildings (ED)”.
Vickram, Lakshmi (2023) [95]Sustainable construction materials“Materials that are selected and developed from extraction and manufacture through transportation and disposal to minimize environmental effects”.

Appendix B

Table A2. Concept of resilience in the construction sector.
Table A2. Concept of resilience in the construction sector.
Author/s (Year)Research ObjectResilience Definitions for the Construction Sector
Bosher (2008) [96]Resilient built environment“A resilient built environment as one designed, located, built, operated, and maintained in a way that maximises the ability of built assets, associated support systems (physical and institutional) and the people that reside or work within the built assets, to withstand, recover from, and mitigate the impacts of threats”.
Madni, Jackson (2009) [97]Resilience engineering“the ability to build systems that are able to circumvent accidents through anticipation, survive disruptions through recovery, and grow through adaptation”.
Haigh, Amaratunga (2011) [98]Resilient built environment“A resilient built environment will ensue when we design, develop and manage context sensitive buildings, spaces and places that have the capacity to resist or change in order to reduce hazard vulnerability, and enable society to continue functioning, economically, socially, when subjected to a hazard event”.
Bocchini, Frangopol, Ummenhofer, Zinke (2013) [99]Civil infrastructure resilience“resilience is associated with the ability to deliver a certain service level even after the occurrence of an extreme event, such as an earthquake, and to recover the desired functionality as fast as possible”.
Jennings, Vugrin, Belasich (2013) [100]Resilient building“Resilient buildings are often thought of as structures that exceed minimum code requirements so that the key building systems continue to function, enabling the continued operation of the building”.
Pearson, Flanery (2013) [101]Urban resilience“The capacity of the city (built infrastructure, material flows, etc.) to undergo change while still maintaining the same structure, functions and feedbacks, and therefore identity”.
The White House (2013) [102]Resilience in the built environment and critical infrastructure“the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions”.
Faller (2013) [103]Building resilience“Buildings resilience could be seen as an ability to withstand the effects of earthquakes, extreme winds, flooding and fire, and their ability to be quickly returned after such event”.
Sedema (2014) [104]Resilient cities“the ability of citizens to absorb shocks and reorganize while undergoing climate change, through decentralization of activities, the diversity of economic sources, decoupling between economic development and emissions, the integration of the city with natural ecosystems, social cohesion, and redundancy”.
Zaho, McCoy, Smoke (2015) [105]Resilient built environment“RBE exists as equilibrium among the facilities that populate the environment and the functions needed from that environment. […] The environment might require attributes in facilities (demand), whereas facilities attempt to fit within the greater functions that serve society (supply) and maintain a baseline of balance”.
Champagne, Aktas (2016) [106]Building resilience“A building’s ability to withstand severe weather and natural disasters along with its ability to recover in a timely and efficient manner if it does incur damages”.
Marjaba, Chidiac (2016) [30]Building resilience“a building resilience is a measure of the building’s ability to recover from or adjust easily to an unlucky condition, event, or change”.
Phillips, Troup, Fannon, Eckelman (2017) [9]Resilience in building context“A building that resists physical damage, may be quickly and cost-effectively repaired if damaged, and maintains key building functionality either throughout a disruptive event or restores a target operation level more quickly after such an event occurs”.
Lupíšek, Růžička, Tywoniak, Hájek, Volf (2018) [107]Building resilience“A single building is resilient if it has the ability to quickly adapt to changes in conditions and continue to function smoothly”
Moazami, Carlucci, Geving (2019) [108]Resilient building“A resilient building is a building that not only is robust but also can fulfill its functional requirements during a major disruption. Its performance might even be disrupted but has to recover to an acceptable level in a timely manner in order to avoid disaster impacts”.
Hewitt, Oberg, Coronado, Andrews (2019) [109]Resilience in buildings“Resilience in buildings [...] is framed as the ability of the building to serve the occupants’ needs in times of crisis or shocks. [...] The capacity of a building to sustain atypical operating conditions in disaster situations, rather than succumbing to building failure, is the critical measure of its resilience”.
Sun, Specian, Hong (2020) [110]Building resilience“The ability of a building to prepare for, withstand, recover rapidly from, and adapt to major disruptions due to extreme weather conditions”.
De Angelis, Ascione, De Masi, Pecce, Vanoli (2020) [111]Resilience of the built environment“The resilience of the built environment can be defined as the capacity to sustain operations under both expected and unexpected conditions”.
The BRE Group (2020) [112]Resilience in the built environment“The capacity of built assets and infrastructure to endure acute shocks and chronic stresses while successfully adapting to long term changes”.
Homaei, Hamdy (2021) [113]Resilient building“The building is defined to be resilient if it is able to prepare for, absorb, adapt to and recover from the disruptive event”
Nagy, Adnan (2022) [114]Resilient building“A resilient building is a building that achieves a collection of important aspects such as the social aspects that is represented in the improvement of the internal environment of the building”.
Jia, Zhan (2023) [10]Resilience in civil engineering“Resilience refers to the ability of systems to resist and recover from the external disasters. […] In civil engineering, resilience refers to the ability of system to resist or recover from the disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, and blasts”.

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Figure 1. Summary diagram illustrating the methodology used to conduct the following study.
Figure 1. Summary diagram illustrating the methodology used to conduct the following study.
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Figure 2. Word cloud of most common keywords used in the 1521 articles individuated during the identification step of the PRISMA statement. Last update on 31 January 2024.
Figure 2. Word cloud of most common keywords used in the 1521 articles individuated during the identification step of the PRISMA statement. Last update on 31 January 2024.
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Figure 3. Word cloud of most common keywords used in the 1015 articles individuated during the identification step of the PRISMA statement. Last update on 31 January 2024.
Figure 3. Word cloud of most common keywords used in the 1015 articles individuated during the identification step of the PRISMA statement. Last update on 31 January 2024.
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Figure 4. Word cloud of most common keywords used in the 1015 articles individuated during the identification step of the PRISMA statement, clustered per SWOT plot to visualize their importance in function of their font dimension.
Figure 4. Word cloud of most common keywords used in the 1015 articles individuated during the identification step of the PRISMA statement, clustered per SWOT plot to visualize their importance in function of their font dimension.
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Table 1. PRISMA statement steps with result per two concepts analyzed: sustainability and resilience.
Table 1. PRISMA statement steps with result per two concepts analyzed: sustainability and resilience.
PRISMA StatementSustainabilityResilience
Identification15211015
Screening544398
Eligibility226104
Inclusion2022
Table 2. Strengths and opportunities of the existing SR integrated methods.
Table 2. Strengths and opportunities of the existing SR integrated methods.
No.Author/s (Year)Energies 17 01440 i001StrengthsEnergies 17 01440 i002Opportunities
1Matthews, Friedland, Orooji (2016) [67]Definition of a more holistic approach to flood-prone building design, considering both resilience and environmental sustainability. Inclusion of LCA to evaluate the environmental impacts of initial construction and flood damage repairs incurred over a building’s life.Implementation of the method into a user-friendly tool for evaluating and quantifying performance-based design solutions. Increase the knowledge and awareness of the impacts and the performances of individual buildings in the urban environment.
2Flint, et al. (2016) [68]Definition of a multi-hazard decisional framework that considers the construction and operation impacts for conceptual design of resilient, sustainable building.Possibility to integrate the multi-hazard framework into other existing performance-based and optimization methods to make a multidimensional assessment.
3Yang, Frangopol (2018) [69]Definition of a holistic probabilistic framework for multi-objective life-cycle performance optimization which considers multiple utilities such as lifetime risk, intervention actions, and lifetime resilience.Possibility to use stochastic process theories to accelerate and make more efficient the computation.
4Chhabra, Hasik, Bilec, Warn (2018) [70]Definition of a rational probabilistic approach to measure the environmental impacts and functional lifespan of buildings exposed to repeated hazards throughout a specific design life.Possibility to use the approach for evaluating the dispersion of damage between building elements to identify the most effective design strategies for improving the environmental performance over the whole building life by an LCA integration.
5Asadi, Salman, Li (2019) [71]Integration into a unique probabilistic decision model three well-known theories for building in seismic zone: analytic hierarchy process, multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT), and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS).Possibility to increase the applicability and flexibility of the framework through the integration of the Bayesian adaptive decision model.
6Asadi, Shen, Zhou, Salaman, Li (2020) [72]Development of a multi-criteria framework for building design based on a quantitative risk decision factor for the assessment of both structural and architectural building performance.Possibility to compare different renovation solutions based on quantitive indicators considering stakeholders’ preference, and risk acceptance level by user/investor. Possibility to extend the method to other structures or infrastructure systems.
7Angeles, Patsialis, Taflanidis et al. (2021) [73]Development of a unified building design approach that integrates synergies between material choice, hazard vulnerability, and environmental impact, based on the LCA.Possibility to improve the method by integrating the response module and providing a more accurate measurement of environmental impact data.
8Anwar, Dong, Li (2021) [74]Clearness of the methodology structure and multi-criteria (5 equal weighting factors) to assess S and R, considering seismic loss. Possibility to quantify refurbishment solutions by a systematic ranking.Possibility to enhance and stream the ranking process.
9Taherkhani, Hashempour, Lotfi (2021) [75]Development of a framework for building renovation through urban district regeneration, integrating sustainability and resilience aspects.Possibility to integrate age, gender, and education within the priority factors for the measurement of the residents’ tendency on S and R renovation.
10Roostaie, Nawari (2022) [76]Definition of 2 factors: sustainability enhancers and detractors based on their impact to evaluate the overall building sustainability. Dependency on the DEMATEL approach [77] to examine the integration of sustainable and resilient factors.Possibility to incorporate the quantification of a scale score for the whole assessment framework, cluster per categories, and to validate the proposed methodology by case studies.
11Bianchi (2023) [78]Development of a practical multi-criteria method for the evaluation of safety, sustainability, and resilience of buildings subjected to seismic actions and heatwaves.Possibility to integrate alternative hazard scenarios to analyze the cumulative effects on the service life of buildings.
12Sesana (2023) [79]Definition of a specific integrated SR method for the construction sector, based on stakeholders’ experience, needs, and barriers.Implementation of the method with other KPIs according to the new emergent needs, certification, or market requests for the buildings.
Table 3. Weaknesses and threats of the existing SR integrated methods.
Table 3. Weaknesses and threats of the existing SR integrated methods.
No.Author/s (Year)Energies 17 01440 i003WeaknessesEnergies 17 01440 i004Threats
1Matthews, Friedland, Orooji (2016) [67]Limitation of sustainability and resilience analysis to the environmental aspect only.Lack of data evaluation on specific seismic parameters (i.e., wave loads, RSLR scenarios).
2Flint et al. (2016) [68]Limitation applicability to specific building typology (single isolated buildings).Lack of data for the analysis of the influence on external infrastructure failure.
3Yang, Frangopol (2018) [69]Skills in Monte Carlo simulation are necessary for the use of this method to quantify the results of the overall assessment.Limited target groups for the use and applicability of the method due to a highly skilled knowledge of the computational process.
4Chhabra, Hasik, Bilec, Warn (2018) [70]Absence of key factors for the building sustainability assessment, such as the effect of structural deterioration on building performance, and the environmental impacts.Lack of analysis of potential uncertainty or variability during the estimation process for components and materials, as well as the selection of the most suitable unit processes from a life-cycle database.
5Asadi, Salman, Li (2019) [71]Limited and difficult data collection process due to the need for detailed data, available only through case studies collection.Limited application of the method for the seismic assessment, due to the lack of inclusion of the fragility specification for many structural systems.
6Asadi, Shen, Zhou, Salaman, Li (2020) [72]Limited applicability to specific building typology (low- to mid-rise multi-story residential and commercial buildings). Exclusion of some data as methodology assumptions such as material and geometric properties.Possibility of a lack of data on tall buildings or special buildings such as hospitals and schools which may limit the usability of the method in such cases.
7Angeles, Patsialis, Taflanidis et al. (2021) [73]Limited applicability to specific building typologies (not subjected to crosswind loading or vortex sheddings).Limited applicability of the method due to a high dependency on the quantity and quality of the data.
8Anwar, Dong, Li (2021) [74]Lack of data and need to derive some data from empirical observations, stakeholders’ preferences, and/or data analytics to cover the entire analysis period.Need to survey for collecting missing data.
9Taherkhani, Hashempour, Lotfi (2021) [75]Case-specific data collection process for economic and social aspects.Limited applicability of the method due to its development for a specific geographical area.
10Roostaie, Nawari (2022) [76]Need to have skilled experts or professionals to conduct surveys for the methodology application.Long duration and a large number of survey queries may cause a lack of conclusion for the data collection.
11Bianchi (2023) [78]Need to integrate a more comprehensive approach based on uncertainty for environmental and energy analyses.Limited analyses of the effects of thermal resilience for the quantification of the impacts of heatwaves.
12Sesana (2023) [79]Need further validation for other value chains and, consequently, to slightly generalize some queries now developed for steel industries.Need to update the section related to the pandemic to not limit the evaluation of its effects but to integrate a general risk assessment section.
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