For over a decade, the need for a sustainability assessment of the
built environment has driven the development of methods and
tools [4] for assessing different types of residential, commercial and
institutional buildings. These methods and tools emphasize the
environmental impacts related to the life cycle of buildings; however,
a building can only be considered sustainable after accounting
for its economic, social and cultural dimensions [5]. Furthermore,
these methods assess buildings against a set of predesigned criteria
and are thus not useful for selecting optimal project options [6].
International efforts to measure sustainability have been conducted,
but a multidimensional approach has only been considered in a
fewcases. Most cases focus on environmental aspects and overlook
other aspects, such as economic, social, or cultural aspects [7]. The
investigation of these aspects is hindered by methodological limitations
and insufficient stakeholder integration [8]. Although the
different dimensions of sustainability are usually considered complementary,
it can be argued that connections and dynamics exist