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Lean in design
Published in Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed, Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction, 2020
Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed
So-called green buildings use energy, potable water, and other resources more efficiently. They also yield improved indoor air quality and higher worker productivity. The US Green Building Council’s leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) certification system rewards sustainable practices in design and construction with a ranking system that reflects each facility’s compliance with “best” environmental practices. Research findings suggest that LEED-certified buildings have a 3.8% higher occupancy than non-LEED-certified buildings. Buildings that meet the EPA’s Energy Star standards are said to have a 3.6% higher occupancy than unrated buildings. Buildings that meet either LEED or Energy Star standards have been shown to have lower energy usage and command higher rental rates.
Energy-Efficient Buildings: Technology to Policy and Awareness
Published in Amritanshu Shukla, Atul Sharma, Sustainability through Energy-Efficient Buildings, 2018
In India, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) had taken the initiative back in 2004 by launching the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC). This was done to give the energy poverty struck nation structures that demand less energy and also help to save energy. ECBC would ensure “cross-check for building designs and specifications” (Times of India, 2014). Apart from BEE, other agencies have also been working toward making Indian building energy efficient; most of them partaking in a role through Green Building initiative viz. National Building Code (NBC), Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) and ECBC. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) formulated by the United States Green Building Council is an internationally accepted certification system for Green Buildings. LEED has specially designed certification as per need of Indian scenario. Green Rating Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), a TERI initiative, is the national rating system developed for India. Being an issue belonging to various states, many have opted to formulate their own policies along the guidelines as prescribed by the center. As per ECBC, “While the Central Government has powers under the EC Act 2001, the state governments have the flexibility to modify the code to suit local or regional needs and notify them. Presently, the code is in voluntary phase of implementation” (BEE). Much of the impetus is lingered and left dangling in wake of clear cut mandatory guidelines. A comprehensive energy efficiency policy in India has not yet seen the light of the day; about 22 states are at various stages of mandating ECBC although states like-Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttarakhand, and Andhra Pradesh have already notified the code.
Indoor Air Quality In Retrospect: How did we get here?
Published in H.E. Burroughs, Shirley J. Hansen, Managing Indoor Air Quality, 2020
H.E. Burroughs, Shirley J. Hansen
Focus is gradually shifting from buildings that are self-conscious art forms that may attract tenants to the comfort that will keep them. Mikulina has observed, “We must help builders and developers understand that, while an architect can attract tenants through aesthetics, only a good comfort system will retain tenants through increased productivity.” A similar architectural trend gaining momentum in the latter 90s and early 21st century is the “Green Building” movement. This trend recognizes more fully the role of the building as an ecosystem or “habitat” and its impact upon both the occupants within and the global environment without. The U.S. Green Building Council has defined the green building to mean “structures that are designed, renovated, constructed, operated, and eventually demolished in an environmentally and energy efficient manner with least impact upon our global and internal environment.” Of course, the greening trend recognizes and incorporates the importance of indoor air quality. USGBC has further promoted green construction practices through the development of a certification program labeled LEED. This is referred to as a Green Building Rating System that defines a green building tactics using a common standard of measurement and promotes the use of green design practices through a certification attainment and labeling system that is gaining momentum with progressive owners. As evidence of the recognition of this trend, ASHRAE, in conjunction with USGBC and IES, has developed and published a new standard on sustainability, ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 189.1-2009 Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings. There is mounting concern, however, that the LEED building rating system (which is based on modeling) fails to assure improved energy performance in actual building operation and litigation has been instigated against USGBC based upon this allegation.
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
LEED- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a green building rating certification program developed by US Green Building Council (USGBC). One of the common features of LEED and similar green building rating systems discussed in this study is to predict the effects of buildings on the environment. To inspect them within the standards they have determined and thus raise the awareness of the individuals, the public, and the municipalities in charge of the buildings (Greer et al. 2019). LEED Certification was first released in 1993 as LEED 1.0. This certificate had visions such as protecting structures in areas with designated infrastructure and foundations, protecting agricultural areas, and protecting wildlife (”LEED Rating System” 2021). It is the most well-known and adopted system, acceptable in over 165 countries and territories for evaluating sustainable buildings worldwide. (Liu, Chen, and Chou 2019).
A critical review of African green building research
Published in Building Research & Information, 2022
Frank Victor Mushi, Huba Nguluma, Jacob Kihila
The World Commission on Environment and Development posits that structures designed to be resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable meet the criteria of green buildings (Steinemann et al., 2017). The concept of green building entails the realization that the building construction process has an inherent impact on the environment and society; thus, ‘green building is an effort to amplify the positive and mitigate the negative impacts throughout the entire life cycle of a building’ (Kriss, 2014). The World Green Building Council defines green building as ‘a building that, in its design, construction or operation, reduces or eliminates negative impacts, and can create positive impacts, on our climate and natural environment. Green buildings preserve precious natural resources and improve our quality of life’ (World Green Building Council, 2014).
United Nation’s sustainable development goals: establishing baseline for Australian building sector
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2021
I. M. Chethana S. Illankoon, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le
LEED has five key criteria, based on which the buildings are evaluated. United States Green Building Council (2007) mentioned that a LEED-certified green building is an efficient building with savings in energy approximately 20% to 50% by integrated planning, site orientation, energy-saving technologies, on-site renewable energy-producing technologies, light-reflective materials, natural daylight and ventilation and downsized HVAC and other equipment. Further, energy and atmosphere credits in LEED v3 focuses on the energy efficiency of buildings and also on using non-renewable resources for energy generation (United States Green Building Council 2016). Similarly, SDGs such as ‘SGD7 Affordable and clean energy’ focus on energy efficiency and provision of non-renewable energy sources universally. Therefore, it is inevitable to depict that SDG7 and energy credits focus on the same outputs (United Nations (UN) 2018a). Similarly, goals such as ‘SGD9 Industry innovation and infrastructure’, ‘SDG12 Responsible consumption and production’ and ‘SGD13 Climate action’ also focus on energy efficiency, more cleaner economies, responsible consumption of resources and so on (United Nations (UN) 2018a). Therefore, these goals have an influence on the LEED energy credits. Table 2 summarises the LEED energy credits having a significant impact on SDGs.