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Post occupancy evaluation for optimal energy and environmental performance
Published in Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara, Building Services Design for Energy-Efficient Buildings, 2020
Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara
CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Building Environmental Efficiency) started in Japan in 2001. According to CASBEE website, it is a joint industrial/government/academic project initiated with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). There are two spaces involved in CASBEE, internal and external, which are divided by a hypothetical boundary defined by the site boundary and other elements. Therefore, two factors are considered, namely: Q (Quality): Building Environmental Quality and Performance: evaluates ‘improvement in living amenity for the building users within the hypothetically enclosed space’.L (Loadings): Building Environmental Loadings: evaluates ‘negative aspects of environmental impact which go beyond the hypothetical enclosed space to the outside’.
Sustainable design and construction assessment tools
Published in Oluwaseun Dosumu, Clinton Aigbavboa, Sustainable Design and Construction in Africa, 2018
Oluwaseun Dosumu, Clinton Aigbavboa
The Comprehensive Assessment System for Building Environmental Efficiency (CASBEE) was developed by the Japan Sustainable Building Consortium (JSBC) which was established in 2001 to assess and certify construction projects for sustainability. The CASBEE was developed to cater for both internal and external aspects of construction projects. That is, CASBEE caters for construction projects in the areas of indoor air quality, outdoor pollution and a combination of indoor air quality and outdoor pollution. The CASBEE requires that a trained person who has taken and passed the CASBEE examination be engaged on construction projects that seek to obtain certification for sustainable development. More than 450 construction projects have been certified with CASBEE. The method used by CASBEE to assess and rate construction projects for sustainability is quite different from the other assessment tools. It consists of six categories that are divided into two sections as follows:
Operational building performance in tropical climates
Published in Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Michael Farragher, Building Design, Construction and Performance in Tropical Climates, 2017
Nik Elyna Myeda, Syahrul Nizam Kamaruzzaman, Cheong Peng Au-Yong
The CASBEE tool was developed by the Japan Green Building Council (JaGBC)/ Japan Sustainable Building Consortium (JSBC) and their sub-committees (Lee, 2013). CASBEE is applied to pre-design, new construction, existing building and renovation, corresponding to the building life cycle. Similar to BREEAM, CASBEE includes a tool for refurbishing existing buildings to produce more environmentally efficient building stock. BEAM Plus is a voluntary tool first launched in 1996 (formerly known as HK-BEAM). It was based largely on the BREEAM assessment tool but was modified for Hong Kong’s densely populated infrastructure. It applies to new and existing buildings and covers a wide range of issues related to the impact of buildings on the environment in terms of global, local and indoor scales (Lee, 2013).
Sustainability assessment of cities: SDGs and GHG emissions
Published in Building Research & Information, 2018
Shun Kawakubo, Shuzo Murakami, Toshiharu Ikaga, Yasushi Asami
A method that enables all stakeholders to assess cities and communities based on SDG indicators and GHG emissions, namely, CASBEE for Cities (worldwide-use version; hereafter, ‘CASBEE-City’), was developed. CASBEE was originally developed to assess the environmental performance of individual buildings; the assessment scope was subsequently widened to the urban development scale in 2006 and to the city scale in 2011. Other assessment systems, such as the BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) in the UK and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system in the US, were also initially developed for assessing buildings before widening in scope based on the experience with individual building assessment (Cole, Brown, & Mckay, 2010).
Green Airport building certification comparison: a practical approach for Airport Management
Published in International Journal of Green Energy, 2023
Betul Kacar, Eylem Turhan, Alper Dalkiran, T. Hikmet Karakoc
The Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) Certificate is also used to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings of various types, like the other articles discussed in the article. CASBEE is a rating tool based on the Building Environmental Efficiency (BEE) (”CASBEE” 2021). It is crucial to understand the BEE definition to understand better the use and implementation of the CASBEE Rating System. The Building Environmental Efficiency definition is used by measuring the value of the services and products within various criteria. CASBEE is a method for evaluating and rating the environmental performance of buildings.
The socialization of building science: the emblematic journey of R. J. Cole
Published in Building Research & Information, 2018
In their contribution ‘Rethinking sustainability frameworks in neighbourhood projects: a process-based approach’, Oliver and Pearl also employ qualitative methods for exploring building sustainability assessment tools, employing Cole’s (2005) ‘process’ approach to examine the shift from buildings to the neighbourhood scale. Their paper looks specifically at neighbourhood-scale pilot projects (in Malmö, Sweden, and Barcelona, Spain) that have employed sustainability tools or frameworks striving towards more regenerative or resilient definitions (Cole, 2012) of sustainability. Their approach reveals that the success of both these projects, particularly in relation to stakeholder collaboration and community participation within the project-development processes, was largely the result of how the projects were framed. They conclude that if projects are properly framed: neighbourhood-scale sustainability tools represent opportunities to bring different sectors together (private, public and third party) around a common vision to create infrastructure investment partnerships and truly integrated communities.Kawakubo, Murakami, Ikaga and Asami are also concerned with widening the scope of sustainability assessment methods. Their contribution ‘Sustainability assessment of cities: SDGs and GHG emissions’ is hugely ambitious. Their aim is to provide an assessment method that can be used to monitor the progress of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and of its Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Paris Agreement, both at the local level and internationally. What they offer for doing so is the Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) for Cities, a ‘method that allows users, such as local government officers, citizens and other stakeholders to understand the actual conditions of their cities [ … ]’.