purchasing, manufacturing and distributing products/services may account for a bulk of the resources consumed and a huge environmental impact [36]. Sustainability based planning aims to reverse trends that are leading us away from an enviable and resilient future by taking consideration of the interdependence of environmental, economic and social objectives in global impera- tives as well as in local context [37]. Sustainability assessment may be defined as a procedure to understand and integrate sustain- ability issues into decision-making by identifying and assessing the sustainability impacts to foster sustainability objectives [38,39].