Overview of lighting credits from WELL environmental assessment method for integrative lighting.

RUIZ, VERÓNICA JIMENA; RODRIGUEZ ROBERTO GERMÁN; PATTINI ANDREA

Santiago

Conferencia; PLEA 2022 - Will cities survive?; 2022

PLEA

Beyond an energy-centric perspective, Building Environmental Assessment Methods(BEAM) may contribute to the achievement of healthier indoor builtenvironments, allowing building sustainability to reach its full potential as apublic health transformation tool. The objective of this paper is tocharacterize WELL V2 by means of two-stage heuristic analysis method (i.e.based on expert criteria): (i) a qualitative screening based on sevendimensions of analysis and (ii) a 0-100 quantitative assessment of ninedimensions of analysis. Our first stage results showed that WELL fulfilled allof the proposed criteria for other more established BEAM. Stage two resultsshowed an overall score of 68, below LEED and BREEAM scores from the literature,and above CASBEE, HK-BEAM, and GREENSTAR. In terms of applicability, WELL lacksof lifecycle related criteria. WELL V2 showed a good comparative performanceamong BEAMs, placing it as a seminal method for the creation of new and moresuitable wellbeing and health labelling systems, mimicking the role BREEAMplayed at the end of the 20th century.