Explaining Environmental Headline and Criteria to Assess the Sustainability of New Residential Buildings in line with urban plans and city planning

Evaluating sustainable buildings makes different challenges for construction industry which all the countries in the world face with. Iran is in the beginning of this path and the researches and actions done in this field are limited. Accordingly, this study focuses on determining the environmental criteria in order to assess the level of sustainability in newly built residential constructions in Iran. In this study, the research method from the perspective of study's aim is practical and from the method's own view, is descriptive – analytical. Collecting data, initially, is done through studying documents along with analytical – comparative assessment and then via Fuzzy Delphi technique and questionnaire survey. Finally, the headlines and achieved environmental criteria are ranked based on AHP technique. In the part of documentary study, after reviewing 116 systems of sustainability, the 5 top systems as the best systems, are analyzed and compared with each other. As a result, 2 systems as LEED and BREEAM are selected to be modified as the most comprehensive and updated systems in the field of environmental subjects. For the next step, according to mentioned studies and analyzing the qualitative content of the interviews done along with Delphi techniques, 6 environmental headlines and 51 criteria of environmental assessment are modified as: energy, environmental pollutions, materials and resources, water, waste, sustainable site.