Abstract

Sustainability indicators are the essential characteristics for the energy evaluation of the residental buildings. It is of the significant importance for the assessment of the quality of life to devote special attention to the method for the selection appropriate indicators for the quality assessment of the residental building. Cities are important consumers of energy and the largest share of total energy consumption is in a household sector. In this paper the method of selecting and defining of sub-sub indicators of sustainable development is shown. It was needed for the process of determining the level of sustainable development expressed through the index of sustainability of residential buildings. In this respect special attention has to be devoted to the definition and procedure for the sub-sub indicators regarding to economic, social and environmental aspect. It is of the particular interest in the sustainability assessment to verify the procedure for the determination of the individual sub-indicators. In accordance to final energy consumption (for space heating, hot water production, cooking and the household electrical appliances) the selection, defining and determining the economic, social and environmental indicators was developed. It was done for several options of residential buildings (single family houses and multi apartment buildings). Also, this paper shows the aggregation of energy indicators at all levels prior to a level that demonstrates sustainable development.