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Sustainability and High Performance Green Buildings
Published in Stephen A. Roosa, Steve Doty, Wayne C. Turner, Energy Management Handbook, 2020
Society has come to recognize the need for sustainable behavior, practices and policies to minimize the negative effects of human behavior on our present quality of life and that of future generations. Sustainability has become one of the buzzwords in the media, society and the government sectors. For the built environment, sustainable development is embodied in the concept of high performance green buildings. An industry consensus for green buildings has formed which includes the categories of sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy efficiency, atmospheric protection, materials, resources, indoor environments, operations and maintenance. Several green building rating systems such as LEED and Green Globes and building codes such as ASHRAE Standard 189.1 have been developed in response to the demand and need for high performance green buildings.
Product Emissions and Evolution of Indoor Air Pollution
Published in Kathleen Hess-Kosa, Building Materials, 2017
Into the twenty-first century, there has been a drastic shift from an all-out assault on all product emissions to building material emissions. These were advanced in the form of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification Program for newly constructed buildings and the ANSI/ASHRAE 189.1 “Standard for the Design of High-Performance, Green Buildings—Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings” (ASHRAE Standard).
Factors affecting the design and development of responsive facades: a historical evolution
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2020
Negar Heidari Matin, Ali Eydgahi
The environmental movement triggered the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1963, and the Water Quality and Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Acts in 1965. Also, the OPEC oil export embargo affected by ongoing conflicts in Middle East caused energy crises in the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1989, the environmental movement, energy crisis, and their subsequent consequences caused the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to form a committee on energy and environment to focus and promote passive and active technological approaches on the design of buildings’ components such as active responsive building envelopes (United States Environmental Protection Agency 2016). In 1990, the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) was launched by the Building Research Establishment in the United Kingdom as the first method to assess, rate and certify sustainability of buildings (Veliko and Thun 2013). In 1998, the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) developed a US rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings. The LEED certifications specify the standards for the design and construction of the high-performance building envelopes including responsive facade systems to address the indoor environmental quality (Loonen, Favoino, Hensen, & Overend, 2016).