SEEDS: Socio-Environmental Early-stage Decision Support
SEEDS
Socio-Environmental Early-stage Decision Support

Welcome to SEEDS – a tool that helps building design stakeholders, such as architects and project developers, identify and assess the evidence-based impacts of socially oriented design intents, while also keeping a database of already implemented socially oriented design intents across projects.

In SEEDS, socially oriented design intents are deconstructed into social intents and their corresponding design choices. The social intents are categorised based on three themes: physical, psychological and social. The environmental impacts are assessed based on how the social intent and design choice impacts a building's global warming potential.

Start exploring the SEEDS database below! Or watch our tutorial video.

Further information on SEEDS can be found in the following publications:

  1. Kristoffersen, A.E., Schultz, C. & Kamari, A. (2025). Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Social Intents in Building Renovation Projects. International Journal of Construction Management. 
  2. Kristoffersen, A.E., Kesik, T., Schultz, C. & Kamari, A. (2025) "Towards Socially Sound Sustainable Building Projects with a Novel Life Cycle Assessment Method". In Proc: Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SASBE).
  3. Kristoffersen, A. E., Petersen, S., & Kamari, A. (2025). Evaluation of a concept for assessment of environmental and economic impact of social intents. I M. Rinke, & M. F. Hvejsel (red.), Structures and Architecture: REstructure REmaterialize REthink REuse (1 udg., s. 557-564). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003658641-67
  4. Kristoffersen, A.E., Schultz, C., & Kamari, A. (2024). Critical Comparison of Concepts and Approaches to Social Sustainability between Existing Academic Literature and Building Certification Systems. Journal of Building Engineering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710224010982