DEVELOPMENT OF FUZZY RATING MODEL FOR RESIDENTIAL GREEN BUILDINGS BASED ON PRE-OCCUPANCY & POST-OCCUPANCY PARAMETERS

As ‘sustainable development' has become a global focus, ‘‘Green Building'' or ‘‘Sustainable Building (SB)'' is the need of the day. These buildings not only reduce negative environmental impact but also improve human comfort and safety. Sustainable Buildings need to be assessed by ‘Assessment tool' for checking its overall contribution towards achievement of ‘sustainability'. In this paper an attempt is made to develop a user friendly computer based evaluation programme. The beauty of the model is such that evaluator can do the rating of building according to its predicted performance in the design phase as well as during post occupancy phase of the building. The model is given the name from Fuzzy Rating Model for Residential Buildings as ‘FRAMREB'. ‘FRAMREB' is a comprehensive one with flexible and easy to calculate scoring system. It covers non-controllable factors along with negative scoring system. Results can be utilized in the coming years to prepare a comprehensive ‘GBAT' for developing country like India.