Application of a novel sustainability assessment procedure for smart cities in Soma District, Turkey

Under the Smart cities context, sustainahility is the key-word which permits growing snuirt cities around Europe. The idea behind sustainability is not only reducing greenhouse gas emissions, hut also increasing the quality-of-life of citizens. Furthermore, sustainahility level should be evaluated somehow, although it is a complex task because smart cities concept encompasses multiple fields such as energy efficiency, quality of processes, ICT tools, and socio-economic aspects, among others. Even standards as BREEAM or L.EED do not case their implementation. For this reason, in this paper and under the CITyFiED project, a novel and holistic assessment protocol is proposed which glues main features of aforementioned standards and energy efficiency, economics, social acceptance, life cycle assessment and smart homes to simplify the calculation of sustainability in districts. This protocol is being applied in three residential districts with the aim of reducing the pollution due to buildings (around 60% in Europe) which are (he main contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions. In particular, this paper describes how this general protocol is being deployed in one out of the demonstrators of the project: district located in Soma, Turkey. Within this demonstrator, a portfolio of Key Performance Indicators are defined with the objective of detennining the sustainability level taking into consideration the different parts of the protocol, the relationship between them and the peculiarities of the demonstrator.