Key credit criteria among international green building rating tools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors established seven key credit criteria for these rating tools which are namely (1) Site, (2) Energy, (3) Water, (4) Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ), (5) Material, (6) Waste and pollution, and (7) Management.
About: This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2017-10-15. It has received 168 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the different certification procedures employed in several countries all over the world, considering also which Green Building Rating System (GBRS) is only applied in its own country and which one is developed in other countries by means of proper adaptations.
Abstract: Building performances play a fundamental role in the worldwide energy scenario. In the last years, many countries have developed certification procedures in order to rate the environmental sustainability of buildings, aiming at reducing energy consumptions and environmental impacts during the construction, management and operational phases of a building. This study firstly provides an overview of the different certification procedures employed in several countries all over the world, considering also which Green Building Rating System (GBRS) is only applied in its own country and which one is developed in other countries by means of proper adaptations. Five widespread and well known green building rating systems (CASBEE, Green Star, BREEAM, LEED and ITACA) are then analyzed in detail and differences and similarities among them are highlighted. To this aim, six new macro-areas (site, water, energy, comfort and safety, materials and outdoor quality) are defined and a normalization procedure is implemented, in order to provide significant information about the sustainability aspects taken into account in the different rating tools and aiming at comparing them. This comparison allows to identify the main features of the five tools and to highlight qualitative and quantitative differences. The analysis shows that the certification tools are not homogeneous from both points of view. The aim of this work is to understand which issues have more influence on the final performance rate of each system and to give to final users a deeper knowledge of the aspects included in these tools.
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TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive literature review was conducted, from which 15 prevailing Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) were identified and the major research efforts conducted by the existing GBRS-related studies, and the directions for the future GBRS research.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a case study building with three-star certification for the operational stage was analyzed with the Chinese standards, namely Chinese evaluation standard green building (ESGB) 2014, along with other international standards such as the Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design Leadership (LEED), the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), and Green Star.
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TL;DR: It is argued that a performance-based rating system (e.g. GS) is more beneficial to the practice of designing green, compared with other measure-based systems.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the emission profiles for different types of fly ash in Australia considering availability and transportation, and demonstrate the factors that affect the Green House Gas (GHG) emission profile of FAGP manufacture.
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...However, according to Zuo and Zhao (2014), environmental aspect of green building are widely considered whereas other dimensions of sustainability of green building, especially social and economic sustainability is largely overlooked....
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...According to Zuo and Zhao (2014), green building is one of the measures being put forward to mitigate significant impacts of the building stock on the environment, society and economy....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the differences between the tools are discussed and the current situation within the tools is critically analyzed, and the benefits of using the tools should be analyzed. But the comparison of the tools and their results is difficult, if not impossible.
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...All rights reserved. of these credit criteria and finally sum it up to a single score to arrive at the specific certification of building (Gowri, 2004; Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008; Reed et al., 2011; Sinou et al., 2006)....
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...Therefore, many assessment tools and green building rating systems were put into practice around the world (Gowri, 2004; Haapio and Viitaniemi, 2008; Reed et al., 2011; Sinou and Kyvelou, 2006) such as Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), Leadership in…...
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