Development of Sustainability Assessment Model (SAM) for Resource-Driven Bamboo Construction

To enable resource-driven bamboo construction (RDBC) in Asia-Pacific Bamboo Areas (APBA), a sustainability assessment model (SAM) is developed, which adopts six key indices including the environmental impact, land cost, energy demand, indoor comfort, construction durability, and sustainable material proportion. The former and the latter three indices represent, respectively, the resource load (RL) and building performance (BP), which are further used to calculate the building resource efficiency (BRE). In this chapter, the development of SAM, the definition and corresponding calculation method for each index, as well as the application and display of SAM are explained.