ABSTRACT
This chapter documents the interim findings of the BEQUEST (Building Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability) network and the project's investigation of sustainable urban development. The network has its origins in an international conference, held in Florence in 1995, The Environmental Impact of Buildings and Cities (Brandon, et al., 1997). More recently, the network has been funded from the Research Directorate of the EU 4th Framework Programme. The project sets out to develop a common language and approach to Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) and aims to produce a framework, directory of assessment methods, and set of procurement protocols for such purposes.
