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Sustainable office buildings in steel construction.

Within the research project P881 "Sustainable office and administration buildings in steel and steel-composite construction" planning tools and methods for the design and evaluation of such buildings are being developed by an interdisciplinary research team. In addition to ecological and economic issues, also architectural, socio-cultural and socio-technological criteria are being considered. The benefit from flexibility and its evaluation constitute main aspects influencing the structure and the future marketability of the buildings.
Relevant topics and issues for sustainable design of office buildings are being discussed in this paper. Based on diverse ways of usage, development and trends in the structural organization of office buildings, socio-technological and socio-cultural requirements are formulated. Strategies for the life cycle-oriented economic evaluation are being described including an added value assessment. Related research fields in building construction such as façade, building physics, technical building equipment as well as the development of sustainable structures in steel construction are being discussed. The intended instruments for the planning phase of design concepts and their ecological and economic evaluation are being introduced.