It is difficult to comprehend all different requirements of facility management (FM) including the easiness of maintenance and management, the convenience of spatial use, and ever-changing demands from the future users. For mega complex building facilities, this difficulty is currently coupled with the lack of construction guidelines, regulations, and systems for comprehensive FM. For example, the remodelling, maintenance, and repair works are operated without proper interrelations between construction systems. Systematic management must be conducted according to the distinct characteristics of each building. Therefore in order to meet the requirements by rapidly changing society and the construction industry, new direction for standards and systems are needed considering the present construction management system. Medium-and-long term management strategy for life cycle evaluation of buildings are of great importance. Especially, owing to the mass production and uniformity prevailed in this country, many inefficiency problems are occurring now. In order to solve these problems, life cycle evaluation of the buildings in the planning or design phase is needed. Sustainable flexibility, universal design, long-life buildings with performance improvement are needed.
To do this, firstly, the concept of flexible buildings need to be applied in order to easily meet the changes. And also it is asked to devide the building elements into ‘support’ elements and ‘infill’ elements. Nextly, public environments like public facilities, public buildings, parks, roads, etc. must be used by disabled person, the elders, etc. with the non-disabled person within the circumstances of elderly society occurred rapidly in the world. To put the concept of universal design in reality is essential. And each building components has a different life-span, so we must plan the ‘support’ elements and ‘infill’ elements according to their own life-span. Efficiency improvement as for a long life building is needed by considering all of these issues.
Green campus introduced in this article is an example of the large complex facilities, which shows the future direction to solve the problems of communication with the community, environment and energy through sustainable curriculum development, and the practical movement accordingly. Green campuses are the facilities which are needed to fulfill socioeconomic environment changes to meet new conception of universities and sustainable growth. Now the types of characteristics are to be analyzed through the cases of domestic and intranational green campuses. And life cycle evaluations in the planning and design phase are to be illustrated. Also through these case-study reviews, we are going to suggest the planning factors to be asked for the life cycle evaluation of green campus on the side of sustainable flexibility, universal design to combine various classes of people, long life buildings for performance improvement.
Finding of this study indicates the importance of new resources, internal energy, waste reduction at the side of national problems in the trend of paradigm shift of sustainable development in the world circumstances. At the point of seeking the way to the advanced country, quality improvement of the buildings and the transition toward bountiful life of the nation is possible to change new standards of construction.