PFI: An Integrated Framework for Creation and Assessment of Sustainable Construction Processes

该创新伙伴关系（PFI）项目是亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）， NSF PFI毕业生0090559，以及两个新加入PFI计划的机构（定义为从未获得PFI资助的机构），圣地亚哥州立大学和克利夫兰州立大学之间的III型（a:C）合作伙伴关系。在之前的住房合作努力的基础上，该项目旨在开发与建筑业务相关的可持续性指标，可用于全国乃至全球的建筑公司。虽然建筑环境的可持续性转型已经触及了建筑行业；矛盾的是，建筑业本身却被排除在鼓励绿色实践的努力之外。目前没有任何形式的建筑运营指标，建筑公司只能以自己的方式衡量其可持续性。在大多数情况下，他们根本不进行测量。通过发现和应用研究，该项目将为可持续建筑业务的建立、衡量、权衡和改进提供基础，从而刺激重要的新研究和活动。改善建筑作业的环境绩效是许多国家和全球组织的重要议程。该项目的长期目标是为建筑行业提供一个标准协议，使测量和改善现场施工过程的环境绩效成为可能。节约材料和能源资源将为美国带来经济效益。该项目还将有助于从根本上理解我们建造我们所建造的东西是如何影响我们生活的环境的。合作产品将使各级教育团体（从K-12到大学）和工业团体能够参与发现过程。项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：亚利桑那州立大学（牵头机构）、圣地亚哥州立大学和克利夫兰州立大学；私营部门公司：Pulte Building Systems、SCP Concrete， LLC、DR Wastchak， LLC和Baker Concrete；专业和贸易组织：美国混凝土协会（具体包括混凝土研究理事会、ACI委员会130混凝土施工可持续性和战略发展委员会）、美国煤灰协会、美国混凝土路面协会、美国混凝土承包商协会、国家混凝土路面技术中心和国家预拌混凝土协会。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project is a Type III (A:C) partnership between Arizona State University (ASU), an NSF PFI graduate 0090559, and two institutions that are new to the PFI Program (defined as ones that have never been PFI grantees), San Diego State University and Cleveland State University. Building upon a previous housing partnership effort, the project seeks to develop sustainability metrics related to construction operations which can be used by construction companies throughout the nation and beyond. While the transformation focused upon sustainability in the built environment has certainly touched the construction industry; paradoxically, the construction industry itself has been left out of efforts to encourage green practices. Metrics for construction operations do not currently exist in any form and construction companies are left to measure their sustainability in their own way. For the most part, they do no measuring at all. Through discovery and applied research, this project will provide a base upon which sustainable construction operations can be built, measured, weighed, and improved, thereby stimulating significant new research and activity.Improvements in the environmental performance of construction operations are high on the agenda of many national and global organizations. The long-term goal of this project is to provide the construction industry with a standard protocol that will enable measurement and improvement of the environmental performance of onsite construction processes. Conserving material and energy resources will engender economic benefits to the U.S. The project will also contribute toward a fundamental understanding of just how our efforts to build the things we build affect the environment in which we live. Partnership products will enable participation in the discovery process for education groups at all levels, K-12 through university, and for industry groups.Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: Arizona State University (lead institution), San Diego State University, and Cleveland State University; Private Sector Companies: Pulte Building Systems, SCP Concrete, LLC, DR Wastchak, LLC, and Baker Concrete; and Professional and Trade Organizations: American Concrete Institute (including, specifically, the Concrete Research Council, the ACI Committee 130 Sustainability in Concrete Construction, and the Strategic Development Council), American Coal Ash Association, American Concrete Pavement Association, American Society of Concrete Contractors, National Concrete Pavement Technology Center, and National Ready Mixed Concrete Association.