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Journal articles on the topic "Green building features"
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Yang, Yun Hui. "Green Building Development Features in China." Applied Mechanics and Materials 587-589 (July 2014): 725–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.587-589.725.
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China has the biggest building construction market in the world today and it is growing at an explosive rate. At present, more than 85% of China's newly constructed buildings and more than 95% of the existing buildings are high energy consumption buildings. 1 Green building is undoubtedly a great emerging market for the Chinese building industry, green and clean technology and products are becoming rapidly growing market in China. Both the new green building construction and existing building’s energy retrofit market will significantly grow in future. This paper discusses features of the green building development in China with respect to various aspects of the green building development situations, green building rating systems and its features so as to make further improvements. The discussion was refined based on literature reviews, requests for information from certification system owners, and interviews with certification system users and members of the industry advisory group.
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Weerasinghe, Achini Shanika, and Thanuja Ramachandra. "Economic sustainability of green buildings: a comparative analysis of green vs non-green." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 8, no. 5 (November 12, 2018): 528–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-10-2017-0105.
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Purpose In Sri Lanka, a limited number of buildings have been certified for incorporation of green features and the reasons are attributed to green building investors who continue to perceive that green buildings are expensive. Further, the green building investors fail to appreciate the subsequent benefits received by those buildings during the operational phase. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to compare the life cycle cost (LCC) of green certified industrial manufacturing buildings with a similar form of the conventional buildings to establish the economic sustainability of green buildings. Design/methodology/approach The study involved a comparative case study analysis of two green buildings and a similar natured conventional building. The data required to perform the LCC analysis were extracted through documentary analysis. Findings The comparative analysis shows that the construction cost of a green industrial manufacturing building is 37 per cent higher than that of a similar natured conventional building while operation, maintenance and the end life cost of green buildings result in 28, 22 and 11 per cent savings, respectively. This results in an overall cost saving of 21 per cent in green buildings. Originality/value The current study provides an assessment of the total LCC of green industrial manufacturing buildings. In Sri Lanka, green industrial manufacturing buildings offer LCC saving of 21 per cent over its lifetime compared to similar natured conventional buildings. Thus, comparative analyses would enable green investors to make informed decisions before commissioning their investment in green facilities and thereby promote sustainable construction in Sri Lanka.
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Komolafe, Markson Opeyemi, Matthew Oluwole Oyewole, and John Temitope Kolawole. "Extent of incorporation of green features in office properties in Lagos, Nigeria." Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 5, no. 3 (September 5, 2016): 232–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sasbe-08-2015-0019.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which green building features are evident in office properties in Lagos, Nigeria; and consequently determine the degree of compliance with green standards in the country. Design/methodology/approach The study purposively sampled two (2) office properties from the management portfolio of 88 registered Estate firms in Lagos. Data were collected using physical observation on the properties and interview with two users purposively selected from each of the properties. The data were analysed with the use of frequency distribution, percentages and measures of green features availability index. Findings The result revealed a low extent of green features incorporation in existing office properties with the value of availability indices on most features falling below 2.5 on a five-point scale. Feature relating to material use and conservation is the most incorporated green feature (mean score of 2.62) while those relating to owner and occupant education were least in incorporation (mean score of 1.895). Practical implications From the findings, it is apparent that green retrofitting may be necessary in Nigeria due to the low extent of green practices in existing office properties. Also, reinforcement of existing government policies and increased sensitisation of stakeholders on impact of current building practices are pertinent to green building success in Nigeria. Originality/value Most existing studies of similar focus are based in the developed economies where stronger implementation framework exists for green building. Besides, they are mostly based on evaluation of green certified buildings using few criteria. This study differs in that it presents the existing building sustainability practices in a less pronounced green property market, with varying architectural styles using more robust criteria. Information provided is applicable in Nigeria and other emerging economies.
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Oyewole, Matthew Oluwole, and Markson Opeyemi Komolafe. "Users’ preference for green features in office properties." Property Management 36, no. 4 (August 20, 2018): 374–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pm-03-2017-0016.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the preference of office property users for green features in Lagos, Nigeria. This is with a view to determining the degree of users’ aspiration for green buildings in the country. Design/methodology/approach The study purposively sampled two office properties from the management portfolio of 88 registered estate firms in Lagos. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaire on two users purposively selected from each of the properties. The data were analyzed with the use of frequency distribution, percentages and measures of the users’ preference index. Findings The results revealed that the preference for green features by office property users in the study area was above average (2.5 on a five-point scale). Feature relating to “building ecology, waste and recycling” is the most preferred feature with UPI of 3.970 while those relating to “owner and occupant education” with UPI of 3.558 were least in preference. Practical implications The paper concludes that with the preference of users for green features in the study area, it may be necessary for government to strengthen the existing framework for sustainable development. Also, increased sensitization of investors, users, professionals and other stakeholders in the building industry is pertinent to the success of green building practice in the country. Originality/value This is one of the few studies on users’ preference for green features in emerging economy, particularly in the Nigerian context.
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Balas, Marius, Jelena Nikolic, Ramona Lile, Mihaela Popa, and Roxana Beiu. "INTELLIGENT ROOFTOP GREENHOUSES AND GREEN SKYLINE CITIES." SWS Journal of EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES 1, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/eps2019/issue2.02.
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The paper proposes a new concept of green building, able to oppose the global warming, the Intelligent Rooftop Greenhouse iRTG, as a development of the Integrated Rooftop Greenhouse IRTG. Our approach is to replace conventional roofs with IRTGs, which are constructively connected with the interior of the building by flows of energy, gazes (mainly O2 enriched air from RTG to building and CO2 enriched air from building to RTG) and water in order to improve the building’s metabolism. A tight human-plant symbiosis is created such way. iRTGs perfect this architecture by actively controlling the energy, gazes and water flows, by collecting the available renewable energy resources (geothermal, sun, wind) and by adding Internet of Things IOT features to the system, in order to connect it to a surrounding Smart City. This way iRTGs may achieve an efficient integrated management of energy, gases and water, using just existing technologies: heat pumps (water to water for building’s basement and air to air for greenhouse), solar panels, IOT equipment, etc., controlled in a smart/intelligent manner. If a Smart City is composed mostly of iRTG buildings it becomes a Smart Green Skyline City, with low carbon footprint and high carbon offset. The paper provides a mathematical iRTG model.
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Wadu Mesthrige, Jayantha, and Ho Yuk Kwong. "Criteria and barriers for the application of green building features in Hong Kong." Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 7, no. 3/4 (November 19, 2018): 251–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sasbe-02-2018-0004.
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Purpose An understanding about the criteria determining the successful application of green features, and the barriers to implementation is essential in order to promote and enhance green building development. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, the criteria determining the success of GBFs; and second, the barriers to implementing GBFs in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach A multi-method approach comprising a comprehensive questionnaire survey and a semi-structured group discussion with construction professionals, along with three case studies was adopted to address these two issues. Findings Findings suggest that although environmental performance is the most significant criterion, the living quality of occupants and the costs of green features play a crucial role in determining the success of their application. However, the environmental aspects of buildings are not sufficient for rating or determining the greenness level of a building. As for barriers, the green cost implications; the structural unsuitability of the current stock of old buildings; and the lack of financial incentives were found to be crucial barriers preventing the application of green features in the Hong Kong building sector. Originality/value GBFs have received extensive attentions by the academia and industry. This paper used a mix method approach by exploring success criteria and barriers to implementing green features in the building sector in Hong Kong. As green building development is still a contemporary subject of discussion, this study would be beneficial to decision makers as it identifies the criteria determining the success of green building adoption and barriers to implementation of such features. Hence, relevant stakeholders will have better understanding of the factors affecting the adoption of GBFs.
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Aigbavboa, Clinton, and Wellington Didibhuku Thwala. "PERFORMANCE OF A GREEN BUILDING'S INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ON BUILDING OCCUPANTS IN SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of Green Building 14, no. 1 (January 2019): 131–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/1943-4618.14.1.131.
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Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is important to the health, comfort, and well-being of building occupants. Unsatisfactory IEQ is associated with a number of phenomena, most notably, sick building syndrome (SBS), building-related illnesses (BRIs), and multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), which have major negative effects on productivity. However, green building investors (owners) are not only concerned about reducing the negative impact of their buildings on the environment, but also about the potentially negative impact green buildings can have on their employees' productivity. This research sets out to address, through a questionnaire survey in South Africa, what constitutes the determinants of green building occupants' satisfaction with the IEQ elements of a green building and the health implications of a building's IEQ on the building occupants. Data analysis (involving a one-sample t-test) reveals some interesting findings in regard to what constitutes the determinants of green building occupants' satisfaction with the IEQ elements and the health implications of the IEQ elements of a five-star green rated building in South Africa. Findings from the survey revealed that the occupants of the building were not satisfied with the green building's IEQ, most especially the ineffectiveness of blocking natural and artificial lighting. Also, it was revealed that the IEQ with particular reference to the noise level and ventilation of the space has some serious health implications for the building occupants. The occupants' evaluation revealed that the major health issues from which they suffer include fatigue, headache, common cold, coughing, and influenza, and these affect their productivity and performance. Since building occupants are a rich source of information about IEQ assessment and its effect on productivity, the study can be used to assess the performance of green buildings, identify areas needing improvement, and provide useful feedback to designers and operators about specific aspects of green building design features and operating strategies that need improvement. This study adds to the body of knowledge on green buildings' IEQ performance.
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Guo, Li Hua, and Li Ming Chen. "Research on EMC Promote Green Commercial Buildings Form." Advanced Materials Research 962-965 (June 2014): 1547–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.962-965.1547.
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In order to achieve the goal of energy efficiency in commercial buildings, This article focused on EMC model in commercial building energy saving, and studied on the features of the model, building, usage and other aspects.
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Oyewolo, M. O., and M. O. Komolafe. "Tenants Willingness to Pay for Green Features in Office Properties." October 2018 2, no. 2 (October 2018): 233–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.36263/nijest.2018.02.0073.
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The study investigates tenants’ willingness to pay for green features in office properties in Lagos, Nigeria. This is with a view to determining the inclinations of users to green buildings. Data for the study were collected through the use of structured questionnaire administered using purposive sampling. Tenants’ Willingness To Pay Index (TWTPI) was used to measure the tenants’ willingness to pay for green building features. The features considered were ‘Water, Rain Water and Sewage’, Site Selection, Site Design and Land Scape Ecology’, ‘Building Ecology, ‘Waste and Recycling’, ‘Indoor Air Climate’, Material use and Conservation’, and Owner and Occupant Education’. The willingness of tenants to pay for features such as ‘Energy Conservation’, ‘Water, Rain Water and Sewage’ and ‘Site Selection, Site Design and Land Scape Ecology’ ranked first, second and third with TWTPI of 3.12, 2.72 and 2.71respectively. This finding shows that the majority of the features had a TWTPI of less than 3(out of 6) indicating that the level of willingness of tenants to pay for the majority of green features was below average. The paper advocates for relevant agencies to embark on aggressive awareness campaign which emphasizes the direct benefits of green building.
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Zhang, Jian, Cun Tao He, Chen Liang, and Liang Cai. "Discussion for Solar Energy Application of Green Buildings." Applied Mechanics and Materials 94-96 (September 2011): 158–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.94-96.158.
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Green building, a kind of sustainable development and energy-saving buildings, has a very important significance for alleviating strained resources, protecting the environment to reduce pollution; And the solar energy as a kind of important renewable energy, with features of energy saving, environmental protection and natural, is more and more widely using in the green building. This paper will mainly discusses the actual application of the solar energy technologies in green building.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Green building features"
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Owoha, Faith. "The influence of a green building concept on the value of a building." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/3066.
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Thesis (Master of Construction (Construction Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2019This study examines the influence of a green building concept on the value of a building. Comprehensive literature was carefully reviewed to provide an overview on the concept of green building and its influence on the value of a building, subject to its overall benefits in South Africa. Several studies have been conducted giving guidelines for the determination of the best capitalisation rates needed for valuing green building properties. However, the information is still inadequate in providing evidence of the relationship between green building features and its influence on the value of a building, leaving most buildings with green features undervalued. This is a peculiar concern this research seeks to bring to notice and with its limited scope proffer possible recommendations and conclusions. A quantitative approach was adopted, facilitating the collection of data through the use of a questionnaire survey that involved randomly selected construction professionals in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The motive behind the adoption of the quantitative method is to facilitate a reliable manner of satisfying the established aim and objectives for determining current practices in valuing green buildings. The above description paved the way for the use of theoretical, statistical and mathematical techniques for computation and interpretation of data to support objective reasoning and measures. Data was analysed with the application of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis tools, wherein the mean values and one-way analysis of variance were carefully determined. The findings demonstrate that the benefits of green building are critical for enhancing a building’s value. The benefits are divided into tangible and intangible benefits to classify impact on a building value. The classification of the impact cut across reduction of the consumption of energy and water, lowering operating cost and developing flexible design options. Some of the significant features of the green building include water metering, a photovoltaic solar panel system, electrical sub-metering, high performance building façade and skylight and borehole water. Further findings indicate that kitchen and water-closet (WC) water efficient fittings is ranked highest with a mean value (MV) of 3.91, followed by megawatt photovoltaic solar plant with an MV of 3.79, and water metering for monitoring and leak detection with an MV of 3.74. In light of the MVs, it is evident that these features significantly influence the value of a green building. Subsequently, the features are classified as: eco-friendly materials and energy conservation feature; water saving and renewable energy feature; safety feature; natural day light and control feature; sun shade and light feature; water management and flooring feature, and special utility feature. Information as gathered in the study demonstrate that the current practices engaged in valuing green building projects do not specifically differ among construction participants, although the perceptions of construction professionals regarding the most significant green building features that enhance the value of a building is on the average. Modalities towards promoting the concept and value of green building require resolute actions that should be implemented by the Green Building Council of South Africa. This concerns the creation of new growth strategies to escalate the awareness and implementation of a green building concept. Based on the benefits and significant features of green building, as determined through respondent affirmatives, this study broadens the view of construction professionals on the influence of a green building concept on the value of a building in South Africa.
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Nurick, Saul. "An investigation into the mechanisms that are steering large property owning organisations to implement green building features." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16958.
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Corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR/CER) are terms that are often used to brand a company in a positive light. This does not necessarily mean that every organisation implements social and environmental initiatives with the same degree of vigour and commitment. South African property owning organisations are becoming increasingly aware that being socially and environmentally responsible can encompass the design and operation of their buildings. It is for this reason that these types of organisations are searching for ways to implement green building initiatives in their property portfolios. The implementation of environmentally friendly/green initiatives is viewed as Socially Responsible Property Investments (SRPI). Green building initiatives are slowly being adopted by some property owning organisations in South Africa, especially after the formal establishment of the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) in 2007. Implementation of green building initiatives have been met with multiple barriers by property owning organisations, such as lack of education by the professional team with regards to cost of green features and the processes involved in gaining green certification. Three prominent property owning organisations in Cape Town, two corporate and the other an academic institution were chosen as suitable case studies and analysed. Multiple respondents were interviewed for each case study and asked questions regarding their social and environmental initiatives and to what degree, if at all, they are attempting to implement green building features in their buildings. These questions were used to compare the organisation's actions to the content of its CSR policy. It was found that the adoption of green building initiatives was based on the type of property owning organisation, be it corporate or non-corporate. The property owning type has resulted in differing motives for implementation of green initiatives; however there are some common motives regardless of the company type, such as the financial feasibility of implementing said initiatives. The final results of this research revealed that although there is a small gap between a property owning company's CSR policy to that of its stated social and environmental initiatives, the gap between the CSR policy and its green building initiatives is still relatively large.
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Katanekwa, Luse Namutowe. "An investigation into the implementation of green building features and initiatives among stakeholders in the Zambian property market." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31285.
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There is a global challenge and demand in the current century to develop buildings that conserve and preserve the environment; implementing green building features and initiatives (GBFIs) is one way to achieve this. The success of implementing GBFIs requires inclusive participation of the stakeholders in the property market. A multiple case study analysis was conducted on the Zambian Property market, involving three buildings that had different GBFIs. A total of six interviews were conducted across the three cases with relevant stakeholders, namely Facilities managers, tenants, project architect and regulatory body representative. Interviewees were asked questions pertaining to their company’s participation in the development of green building, the benefits of GBFIs, the perception of GBFIs, the relationships among stakeholders as well as the impact of GBFIs in the property market. The findings revealed that there were different approaches to implementing GBFIs. However, a lack of knowledge by some stakeholders on green features and their benefits was noted. This lack of knowledge was a product of inadequate education and poor integration of stakeholders in implementing GBFIs in the Zambian property market. It is important to note that there are vigorous efforts by stakeholders including the government in contributing to conserving the environment in the Zambian property industry. This is evident in the formulation of green building guidelines and environmental impact assessment guidelines for the construction industry.
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Ytterfors, Sanna. "Hur kan en checklista för miljöegenskaper viden fastighetsvärdering utformas?- Med fokus på samhällsfastigheter." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-145522.
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Fastighetsmarknaden har visat på ett växande behov av ett hjälpmedel för fastighetsvärderare som underlättar implementeringen av byggnaders gröna egenskaper i värderingsprocessen, samt för att investerare ska kunna se specifika gröna egenskapers effekt på fastighetsvärdet. Användningen av ett flertal olika miljöklassningssystem på marknaden skapar svårigheter vid jämförelse. RICS har tagit fram ett utkast på en hållbarhetschecklista för att komplettera värderingsutlåtandet med en utökad beskrivning av fastigheterna med en systematisk redovisning av egenskaper relevanta ur ett hållbarhetsperspektiv. Dess syfte är att tydliggöra skillnader och öka utbudet av tillgänglig transaktionsdata med en påföljande ökad transparens på fastighetsmarknaden. Studien syftar till att undersöka hur en hållbarhetschecklista kan tas fram, se ut och fungera, samt om den kan implementeras i ett projekt för en samhällsfastighet. Genom att använda mig av utkastet från RICS och intervjua aktörer på fastighetsmarknaden har en lista tagits fram som jämförts med miljöklassningssystemen och implementerats på ett specifikt projekt. Utfallet har sedan analyserats och legat till grund för de slutsatser som dragits. Resultatet av studien visar att den lista som utgår från RICS ”Sustainability Checklist” med relevanta hållbarhetsaspekter kan implementeras även på samhällsfastigheter då dessa innehar liknande egenskaper som de kommersiella fastigheterna, med vissa skillnader, som övergripande beror av: budgetrestriktioner, lokala förhållanden samt regleringar från kommunen och övriga parter. Även val av miljöklassningssystem har en viss påverkan på utfallet i fallstudien, då ett nära samband finns mellan parametrarna i hållbarhetschecklistan och miljöcertifieringssystemen, och där de kommersiella fastighetsutvecklarna i högre grad har valt att certifiera sina byggnader med de internationella systemen som är mer komplexa och innehar ett högre antal parametrar. Emellertid bygger en framgångsrik implementering av listan på att värderarens roll ändras till mer informerande, vilket också ställer krav på kunskapsnivå och utbudet av utbildning och vägledning för professionella värderare, en uppgift som ska upptas av professionella värderingsorgan. Slutligen fastställs att listan bör bearbetas ytterligare, med utveckling och förtydligande av vissa aspekter för att underlätta insamling av information samt underlätta för värderare att i praktiken kunna använda den som ett komplement i värderingsarbetet.The real estate market has shown an increased demand among real estate appraisers for a tool to facilitate the implementation of green building features into the valuation process, and for investors to discern a specific green feature’s impact upon value. The wide range of green building rating systems used on the real estate market today causes difficulties in comparison. To supplement the valuation report with an extended description of the properties including a systematic presentation of relevant features from a sustainability perspective, RICS (2012) has formed a draft of a ”sustainability checklist”, which purpose is to highlight differences, increase the supply of information and enhance transparency in the property market. The study aims to investigate the development, design and function of a sustainability checklist, and whether it can be implemented on public properties. A list was created based on the draft from RICS ”Sustainability Checklist”, and interviewed players in the real estate market, which were implemented on a specific project consisting of a public building. The result of the study was analysed and has formed the basis of the conclusions drawn. The result of the study conducted within this thesis shows that the list based on RICS ”Sustainability Checklist” with sustainability aspects included can be implemented also on public buildings, as these buildings possess similar features as the commercial buildings. Some main differences can be seen, overall resulting from: budget constraints, local conditions and regulations from the municipality and other parties. Also, the choice of a certain green building rating system influence the effect on the outcome, whereas a close relationship can be find between certain aspects within the sustainability checklist and green building rating systems, and the commercial real estate developers increasingly chose to certify their buildings with the international systems, which are more complex and contain a higher number of aspects. However, in order to achieve a successful implementation of the list among appraisers within the real estate market, the role of the valuer must change to more informative, which also make demands on the level of knowledge and the provision of training and guidance for professional appraisers, a task to be undertaken by professional valuators. Furthermore, it is also established within this study that the list should be further processed and modified in order to facilitate the gathering of information and to simplify for the appraiser to use it as a supplement within the valuation process.
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Bozorgi, Alireza. "A Framework for Integrating Value and Uncertainty in the Sustainable Options Analysis in Real Estate Investment." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26333.
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Real estate professionals, such as investors, owner-occupants, and lenders who are involved in the investment decision-making process are increasingly interested in sustainability and energy efficiency investment. However, current tools and techniques, both technical and financial, typically used for assessing sustainability on their own are unable to provide comprehensive and reliable financial information required for making high-quality investment decisions. Sustainability investment often includes non-cost benefits, value implications, as well as substantial risk and uncertainty that current methods do not simultaneously incorporate in their assessment process.
Through a combined quantitative and qualitative approach, this research creates a new systematic assessment process to consider both cost and non-cost savings and therefore the true financial performance of a set of sustainable options in the context of value and risk, while explicitly deriving and including various uncertainties inherent in the process. The framework integrates assessment tools of technical decision-makers with those of investment decision-makers into a single platform to improve the quality of financial performance projections, and therefore, investment decisions concerning sustainable options in real estate.
A case study is then conducted to test and demonstrate the numeric application of the proposed framework in the context of a non-green office building. The case study presents how to connect the technical outcomes to financial inputs, present the information, and estimate the true financial performance of a green retrofit option, where incremental value and uncertainty have been modeled and included. Three levels of financial analysis are performed to estimate the distribution of financial outcomes including: 1) Cost-based level-1: only energy related costs savings were considered; 2) Cost-based level-2: the non-energy cost savings, including heath and productivity, were also considered; and 3) Value-based level: the value implications of the green retrofit option were considered in addition to items in level 2. As a result of applying the proposed framework when evaluating sustainability investment options, many investment opportunities that were otherwise ignored may be realized, and therefore, the breadth and depth of sustainability investment in real estate will increase.Ph. D.
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Alborzfard, Nakisa. "Life Cycle Cost Analysis Framework of Green Features in Buildings." Digital WPI, 2011. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/10.
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Sustainability has been heightened to a new level of importance, due to the current global race for commodities and conservation of our environment. Sustainable Buildings are of particular interest since buildings are significant contributors to consumption of resources. Since the inception of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, USGBC has played a key role in providing guidance to the design and construction community in building“green" structures. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system is an industry accepted standard for the design/construction and measurement of green buildings. Although USGBC provides guidance on performance measurement, a streamlined process of performance tracking and measurement has not been formalized. This research focuses on identifying vital areas of required tracking and measurement; to allow for a systematic analysis of costs and benefits, over the life of sustainable buildings. A case-study based on the recently designed and constructed East Hall LEED-Gold Certified, dormitory building at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), was undertaken to create and assess a life cycle costs analysis framework. This research is aimed at understanding what the costs of building green at WPI truly are. Life Cycle Cost Analyses of the mechanical, electrical, plumbing and roof components were evaluated to generate percent savings or percent added cost. This research reviewed the various green and non-green costs of construction, consumption, and operations and maintenance costs providing a comparative analysis to leading researchers in the field of costs and benefits of building green.
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Labartino, Isabella. "Building certification as a driver in green building design : The holistic apporach of WELL." Thesis, KTH, Installations- och energisystem, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-222472.
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Construction industry is based on the evaluation of building environmental impact. The current situation shows buildings reaching high standards in the field of environmental sustainability, but they often neglect occupants' satisfaction. The International Well Building Institute (IWBI) has released a new building standard called WELL, whose aim is to create sustainable buildings paying attention to occupants' health and well-being. The goal of this thesis is to understand what does WELL add to existent building certification systems. There is a large number of certification systems, green codes, green standards and several other kinds of documents that influence the way in which designers think and develop their projects. A research background is carried out to identify their requirements and fields of applicability. The innovative concepts proposed by the IWBI, need to interface with requirements from different regulations or certifications. The gap analysis performed in this work highlights which are the gaps and the overlaps between WELL and Swedish building regulations (BBR), Miljöbyggnad, BREEAM-SE and LEED-IT. The White Arkitekter's office in Stockholm, known as Katsan and certified with Miljöbyggnad Gold, is used as a case study to have a more specific approach to the problem than the general approach provided with the gap analysis. The report shows significant gaps between WELL and the other regulations and certifications, which are reduced when considering the case study. The outcomes for the different standards have been compared and they have evidenced some innovative features present only in WELL. These features answer to the research question and underline what WELL adds to sustainability concepts.
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Hill, Adrienne Marie. "Comparison of Occupant Behavior in a Traditional, Green Featured, and LEED Certified Building Case." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74971.
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In developed nations, 20-40% of greenhouse gas emissions and more than one-third of energy consumption are attributable to buildings. Among various available strategies, the building sector has the greatest potential for carbon emission reduction. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) took early action to promote sustainable designs in buildings and has become the most well-known rating system in the field of building sustainability. However, little research has evaluated the effects of LEED on occupant pro-environmental behavior. To examine this, a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) was conducted in a traditional, green featured, and LEED certified building case to compare the similarities and differences in environmental awareness, perceptions, and perceived ease or difficulty of pro-environmental behaviors, as well as to assess the degree to which pro-environmental behaviors were exhibited by occupants. This was used to determine if the aforementioned factors influence occupant behavior in different building cases. Ease or difficulty of pro-environmental behaviors and environmental awareness were found to be significant factors in influencing pro-environmental behavior in the LEED certified and green featured building cases. In addition, being in a LEED building appears to influence occupant pro-environmental behavior in a positive way. Also, there is evidence to suggest that being in a green featured building appears to influence occupants to exhibit pro-environmental behavior as well. These findings are valuable for owners and designers that want occupants in their buildings to exhibit pro-environmental behavior.Master of Science
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Hui, Siu-wai. "A review of the green features in private residential buildings in Hong Kong since 2002." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36789215.
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Hui, Siu-wai, and 許少偉. "A review of the green features in private residential buildings in Hong Kong since 2002." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36789215.
Full textBooks on the topic "Green building features"
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Budelmann, Felix, and Tom Phillips, eds. Textual Events. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805823.001.0001.
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Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts. The fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume places its focus elsewhere, and attempts to illuminate poetic effects that cannot be captured in functional terms. Employing a range of interpretative methods, it explores the idea of lyric performances as textual events. Several chapters investigate the pragmatic relationship between real performance contexts and imaginative settings. Others consider how lyric poems position themselves in relation to earlier texts and textual traditions, or discuss the distinctive encounters lyric poems create between listeners, authors, and performers. In addition to studies that analyse individual lyric texts and lyric authors (Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar), the volume includes treatments of the relationship between lyric and the Homeric Hymns. Building on the renewed concern with the aesthetic in the study of Greek lyric and beyond, Textual Events re-examines the relationship between the poems’ formal features and their historical contexts. Lyric poems are a type of sociopolitical discourse, but they are also objects of attention in themselves. They enable reflection on social and ritual practices as much as they are embedded within them. As well as enacting cultural norms, lyric challenges listeners to think about and experience the world afresh.
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Crouch, Dora P. Geology and Settlement. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195083248.001.0001.
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This study explains the Greco-Roman urban form as it relates to the geological basis at selected sites in the Mediterranean basin. Each of the sites--Argos, Delphi, Ephesus, and Syracuse among them--has manifested in its physical form the geology on which it stood and from which it was made. "By demonstrating the dependence of a group of cities on its geological base," the author writes, "the study forces us to examine more closely the ecology of human settlement, not as a set of theories but as a set of practical constraints..." Exacting attention will be given to local geology (types of building stones, natural springs, effect of earthquakes, silting, etc.) The findings are based on site publications, visits to the sites, and the most recent archaeological plans. The book is illustrated with original photographs and geological maps indicating the known Greco-Roman features--the first such maps published for any of the sites. Sequel to Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities, now available by Publication on Demand
Book chapters on the topic "Green building features"
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Wang, Chia-Ching, Ming-Hong Lin, Sung-Long Chen, Chien-Chang Lin, Yau-Chia Liu, and Cen-Ying Lin. "Effect of surface microstructural features of injection-molded zirconia on the construction of dental implants." In Green Building, Environment, Energy and Civil Engineering, 355–58. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315375106-76.
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Wolsey, Thomas DeVere. "The School Walls Teach." In Marketing the Green School, 171–82. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6312-1.ch012.
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This chapter draws on the extant literature and interviews with experts in the field as it relates to how students become involved and learn from the features of the school facility itself. In this chapter, three tiers of learning are suggested as overlapping and complementary means of learning in and from the built and natural environment. These include a reflective and visible one in which students have the opportunity to learn from features of the building through labeling, signage, and design features that foreground the design itself. Active learning opportunities are the foundation of the second approach. Involvement in green initiatives at the school and in the community is the basis for the third approach. Planning undergirds all three approaches.
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Fapohunda, Tinuke. "Greening the Compensation Design and Management of the Human Resource Function." In Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Sustainability, 157–75. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4522-5.ch009.
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There is a rising necessity for the incorporation of environmental management into human resource management (HRM) practices. This attempt is recognized as the Green HRM initiative. An organization's human resource function can be powerful in aiding an all-inclusive approach to building a culture of sustainability. The strategy entails executing transformations to the diverse functions of HR like determining employee compensation. Gaps continue to exist in the literature on the green aspects of compensation and reward systems. This chapter considers the environmental management features of the compensation and reward system and factors a mould of the procedures entailed in green compensation and reward system. it cores on examining green reward management systems practices from the standpoint of subsisting research in the area and proposes inventive process moulds in green reward management systems. The green reward management system is presented as a smart and superior method of reward management systems.
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Ismail, Tariq, Saeed Akhtar, and Muhammad Riaz. "Pomegranate Peel and Fruit Extracts." In Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies, 165–84. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0591-4.ch008.
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Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.), the fruit and its peel have been shown to hold tremendous potential for the treatment of various ailments. Incorporation of pomegranate, peel and their extracts, as key functional ingredients in various ethnopharmacological formulations are widely accepted in almost all cultures of the World. In addition to their disease ameliorating features, pomegranate and the peel extracts have gained significant popularity in functional food market as ingredient of choice in foods designed to prevent onset of various non-communicable diseases. Health promoting features of the pomegranate peel and fruit extracts define the scope of this natural reserve in global nutraceutical and functional food industry. On account of their unique phytochemicals profile, plentiful pool of antioxidants, dietary fibers, minerals and natural colors, both the valuable reserves have been remained as highly explored plant material in last two decades. Building levels of interest in this fruit has created a deeper insight among researchers to understand actual potential and pathways of pomegranate biomolecules reactivity in human models. The chapter in hand meticulously deals with pomegranate and its extracts as source of innovative healthy components responsible for averting cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory and non-inflammatory disorders, type 2 diabetes, gastric ulcers, various types of cancers and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Ho, Siu Cheung, and Jiannong Cao. "Feasibility Study of Visual Computing and Machine Learning Application for Textile Material Sorting." In Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies, 243–67. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4915-5.ch013.
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This project aims to study the feasibility of visual computing (VC) and machine learning (ML) method applied in the textile recycle industry for efficiently manages the post-consumer textile waste. It includes an image-based VC technology for supporting textile waste reuse and resale, and a material identification system for sorting textile materials by using near infrared (NIR)/hyperspectral spectroscopy technology to support efficiently recycling to reuse the textile fibre will be evaluated. The process involved collecting and validating reference samples and applying ML technique to auto recognize the garment type and features applying visual technology; afterward, the sorted garments would be measured and pre-treated by NIR/hyperspectral spectrum and building up the parameters for spectral patterns calculation for recycling process recover the fibre. The main part of the study is to proof of the concept for using VC and ML method for identifying the textile fibre in the recycling process.
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Park, Sangho, and Henry Kautz. "Energy-Aware Intelligence in Smart Spaces." In Sustainable ICTs and Management Systems for Green Computing, 366–82. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1839-8.ch016.
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The improvement of energy efficiency in our society has become an urgent issue for sustainability under global warming. The authors present research issues on sensor-based smart environments for energy-aware intelligence, and showcase a study of algorithms for monitoring human activities that provides the context awareness to the smart environments. In order to build energy-aware environments, it is desirable to embed intelligence into the environment itself so that the environment can interpret human behavior in order to adjust itself to human activities occurring in the environment. This is achievable by integrating the environment and the intelligent computing facilities. The computing facility embedded in the environment is equipped with intelligent algorithms that can monitor salient features indicative of the events and learn and recognize changes in the environment. Recent developments in sensor-based intelligent systems can provide suitable algorithms and facilities for building such energy-aware smart environments. The authors present a framework for monitoring human activities in daily living toward the energy-aware intelligence that can detect and learn inhabitants’ behavior patterns in the smart environment.
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Russ, Alex, and Marianne E. Krasny. "Introduction." In Urban Environmental Education Review, edited by Alex Russ, Marianne E. Krasny, Alex Russ, and Marianne E. Krasny. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501705823.003.0001.
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This book explains how urban environmental education can promote urban sustainability, and more specifically how environmental educators can achieve educational, youth and community development as well as environmental quality goals in cities. Building on research and practice, it outlines novel approaches to educating about the urban environment and to participatory urban planning, stewardship, and governance. The book features contributions from an international community of eighty-two scholars from environmental education and related fields who share their insights about a variety of topics ranging from urbanization and the characteristics of sustainable cities to environmental justice, sense of place, climate change education, intergenerational education, inclusive education, and educator professional development. The book also explores methods and tools used in urban environmental education such as cities as classrooms, environmental arts, adventure education, urban agriculture, ecological restoration, green infrastructure, urban digital storytelling, and participatory urban planning.
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Wang, Z., and B. He. "Key-technology research of the image retrieval based on the feature points and invariant moments." In Energy, Environment and Green Building Materials, 89–92. CRC Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b18511-20.
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Copenhaver, Rebecca, and Jay Odenbaugh. "Experiencing Emotions." In The Epistemology of Non-Visual Perception, 213–35. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190648916.003.0010.
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This chapter provides an account of the basic emotions and their expression. Emotions are experiences that have the function of indicating how we are faring in our environment. Emotions are also objects of experience: our perceptual systems are sensitive to the expression of emotion in our environment by features that have the function of indicating emotions. Thus, we come to have to knowledge of emotions by perceptually representing properties that function to indicate them. The chapter applies this account to expression in art. What does it mean to say that an artwork expresses sadness? Is perceiving joy in an artwork the same kind of experience as perceiving joy in a friend’s face? How may artworks express emotions without having emotions? The chapter offers a representationalist account of the basic emotions on which exteroceptive and interoceptive systems combine to constitute a system whose states—emotions—indicate how we are faring. Building on the work of Dominic Lopes (2005) and Mitchell Green (2007), the chapter offers a teleosemantic account of emotional expression in art that is impersonal and continuous with a representationalist account of the basic emotions. Features in the environment express emotions even in conditions in which there is no person to whom the emotion is attributable. We experience emotions in two ways: we may have emotions, and we experience emotions as represented properties of the environment. In both cases, experiencing emotions is a matter of experiencing how things are in the world and thus provides perceptual knowledge.
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Sperber, Daniel. "Public Buildings." In The City in Roman Palestine. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195098822.003.0010.
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Around the central market forum area, every Roman town with pride and pretensions to importance developed a number of public buildings that made up a standard set, the components of which we can glean not only from the remains themselves but also from Vitruvius’ architectural treatise. In Book 5 he sets out “the arrangement of public places” (publicorum locorum dispositiones), listing almost exactly the buildings to be found in any Greek and Roman city: forum, basilica, treasury, prison and councilhouse, theater with adjoining porticoes, baths, palaestra, and harbor and shipyards. We have already discussed the prominent nature of the bathhouse, the palaestra is specifically admitted by Vitruvius not to be a usual thing in Italy, and harbors and shipyards are obviously dependent on specific geographic location. Of the other buildings, the treasury and prison, although necessary, were probably of minor importance and therefore do not merit much attention in the sources, while the council and senate-houses are expected features in a society in which a self administering community was the standard form of political life. The one building that stands out as peculiarly Roman is the basilica, a large covered hall that performed the functions of the ubiquitous stoas of Hellenistic architecture, and is obviously loosely related to them, but had a form that appears to lack any clear parallel in the Greek world. We shall discuss and describe some of these focal points of the urban center, beginning with the most prominent, the basilica. The basilica is often identified with the courts of justice. However, this identification is by no means clear. Indeed, it served either as a court of law and seat of the magistracy or as a place of meeting for merchants and men of business. These two uses were so mixed that it is not always easy to state which was the principal. The basilica at Fanum, of which Vitruvius was the architect (5.1.6-10), was entirely devoted to business, and the courts were held in a small building attached to it—the temple of Augustus. In Pompeii the basilica was situated next to the public granaries (horrea), indicating its commercial functions.
Conference papers on the topic "Green building features"
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Adiono, Trio, Suksmandhira Harimurti, Billy Austen Manangkalangi, and Waskita Adijarto. "Design of smart home mobile application with high security and automatic features." In 2018 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igbsg.2018.8393574.
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Chow, W. K. "Fire Safety Concern for Green or Sustainable Buildings With Natural Ventilation Provision." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-14230.
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New architectural concepts and features are designed to give green or sustainable buildings for having a better environment in the future. These new concepts and features, especially those with glass facades, might have difficulties in complying with the fire safety codes, especially in those countries with only prescriptive codes. Performance-based design has to be applied. However, engineering performance-based fire codes are still under development and even the performance-based concept has not yet been accepted in some cities such as Hong Kong. There is fire safety concern in buildings with natural ventilation provision driven by wind action. In this paper, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) will be applied to study natural ventilation in a small flat under wind action. Indoor air flow for a flat in a typical building will be simulated for windows at different locations. Mixing of heat due to a fire inside the building will be studied. The CFD tool selected is PHOENICS.
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Yu, Liu, Li Jing, Liu Jinghua, and Fu Ying. "Research on architectural education adapted to the multi-disciplinary features and needs of green building design." In 2011 International Conference on Electric Technology and Civil Engineering (ICETCE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icetce.2011.5775760.
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Lucas, Franck, Jean Perouzel, Frantz Sinama, and Franc¸ois Garde. "Instrumentation and Simulation of the Hygro-Thermal Conditions of a Green Building: A Study of the Impact of the Post-Occupancy Usages on Thermal Comfort." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90499.
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Post-occupancy evaluations (POEs) are useful for evaluating the success of any building design, but are particularly useful in evaluating green buildings. It is the only opportunity architects and engineers have to learn if their buildings actually work as planned. On the other hand, following the “guidebook” of a green building, i.e. having occupants aware of the particularity of the premise and taught about how it works and what the proper usages are (which are not automatically straightforward), is of prime importance since misuse of a green building can directly lead to discomfort and energy over consumption. In that framework, this paper stresses the link between occupants’ usages and their indoor thermal comfort by attempting a quantification of the impact of each usage on indoor temperature and hygrometry (and thus thermal comfort), showing by the way that, in order a POE to fully give exploitable results, a communication to occupants on proper usages has to be the first step after the delivery of a green building. To study that link, the real case of a green building located in the French tropical island of La Re´union has been used. The overall idea followed in this work lies in two steps: The first one is the creation of a “validated” digital building description obtained thanks to a process of comparison between simulations outputs (DesignBuilder) and field measurements (weather and comfort stations), and to a “block by block” approach that allows independent validations of the description of the fabrics and of the description of the usages. The second step is the utilization of the model obtained in the first step to perform simulations of new usages, as modifications in natural ventilation features (doors, windows open or closed) or in number of occupants, lighting schedule etc. These new simulations lead to the possibilities of comparing situations between each others, and therefore of quantifying the contribution, positive or negative, of each chosen usage to thermal comfort. Eventually, this paper will describe an example of combination of new usages that makes the conditions noticeably more comfortable within the building, stressing that following the good usages in a green building is a first requirement before realizing any POE.
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Martinez, Luis Aaron. "Passive House Design Guidelines for Residential Buildings in El Salvador." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90036.
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The reduction of anthropogenic green house gas emissions through increased building energy efficiency is a global effort, which is a responsibility of both developed and developing nations. The Passive House concept is a building design methodology that advocates for a systematic optimization and integration of the building envelope and internal loads in order to achieve a passive yet comfortable performance. Multiple passive houses have been built and monitored in Europe and the United States. The present paper attempts to determine what design features are required for tropical residential buildings to meet the Passive House Standard. This study was conducted in El Salvador, which experiences a warm and humid climate throughout the year. For economic and cultural reasons, few residential buildings in the country have air conditioning systems. However, the vast majority of residential buildings have not been designed using passive principles, causing great occupant discomfort and increasing energy consumption for cooling. Both the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) software and EnergyPlus were used in order to determine the design parameters that would yield a passive house for this climate. In addition, the paper discusses the technical and economic feasibility of modifying a typical house to meet the standard. The potential benefits related to occupant comfort and energy cost savings are also discussed.
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Iranmanesh, Nasim. "Lessons from Iranian hot cities for future hot cities." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/coii3874.
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Iran is an ancient country with an old civilization. Most parts of this country have been located in hot and dry region. Many cities of Iran suffer from harsh climate and water scarcity both. But we notice a rich urban planning and architecture in these cities which were adapted with this hard situation. We can survey this adaptation in many aspects of traditional urban planning and architecture in Iran. They could build some building with a good energy saving and prepared some spaces with suitable condition for living. Desert has a harsh climate with hot days and cold nights but Iranians build their houses in such a way to keep warm temperature during nights in their walls and then it had cold walls in days to reduce the temperature of the rooms. Besides they divided their homes to two parts, one part for winter and the second for summer. In summer part they used wind tower to catch and bring the wind into rooms. These houses had central yards which contained pool and plants to reduce the temperature of hot days as well. Briefly, there is a special climatic design in traditional houses of hot cities of Iran. Urban planning of these cities respected some features to reduce the effect hot climate as well. For example, there was a dense urban fabric in these cities with narrow lanes. Also, they could achieve the problem of limitation of water by some intellectual technology which called Qanat. Locating of most of the urban elements of cities obeyed from these Qanats. This Qanat provided drinkable water of city and citizens used water by some traditional hydraulic structures such as water reservoir or baths or ice house and so on. Nowadays sustainable design in architecture and urban planning is an important and essential paradigm. This paradigm emphasized on adapting with nature instead destroying it. Traditional architecture and urban planning of these Iranian cities of hot and dry climate contains a lot of features which can be useful for urban development of future hot cities which will be developed by sustainable urban planning paradigm. This paper reviews some features in traditional urban planning and architecture as some useful lessons for recent and future hot cities. Indeed, there are some aspects in these cities which can lead us a more sustainability in urban planning specially for hot cities.
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de Waart, Hendrikus A. A. M., and Marcel van Berlo. "A Fourth Generation WTE Facility Designed for Energy and Materials Recovery: The Amsterdam AEB Waste-Fired Power Plant." In 16th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec16-1929.
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This paper describes a fourth generation WTE facility, the Waste-Fired Power Plant (WFPP®) owned and operated by the City of Amsterdam. This plant is designed with the Best Available Technologies (BAT) to achieve the lowest possible emissions to air, water and soil, thereby creating the lowest possible nuisance levels to neighboring residents, offices and industries. The plant is also designed to maximize electricity production, and to recycle and recover the maximum amount of materials which include ferrous and non-ferrous metals, sand and granulate to produce building products and gypsum and salt from fluegas. In addition the paper describes the design features applied to achieve the world’s best energy efficiency and includes a discussion on the life cycle economic advantages of BAT applications and the positive effect of BAT on Green House Gas emissions.
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Roberts, Bonnie C., Michael E. Webber, and Ofodike A. Ezekoye. "A Multi-Objective Fire Safety and Sustainability Screening Tool for Specifying Insulation Materials." In ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2014-38593.
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Fire safety and sustainability goals in building design are frequently interdependent. Design elements chosen for their fire safety can have energy efficiency implications and vice versa. Furthermore, the environmental damage and carbon emissions from a single fire event can negate the utility of green features invested in the building. Therefore, while not obvious, fire safety and its impact on sustainability are inextricably linked. One of the decisions related to both sustainability and fire safety is the selection of thermal insulation materials. Insulating materials have always been an integral part of building design, serving as a key component in thermally controlling indoor environments. Modern designs and construction techniques often incorporate sustainability goals by seeking to minimize life cycle energy consumption and environmental impact. A well-insulated building reduces thermal load on the HVAC system, thus reducing energy consumption of the building. Therefore, a sustainably designed building is typically a heavily insulated building. In addition to thermal resistance characteristics, the choice of insulating material is often based on acoustic damping and cost. However, fire safety is generally overlooked as a factor for insulation material selection. Few treatments have considered how the competing objectives for sustainability and fire safety should be assessed when choosing insulation. This paper discusses a methodology for balancing these requirements by evaluating the aforementioned attributes of various insulating materials through implementation of a weighted mean. Each variable is normalized and then weighted according to the emphasis placed on each attribute, using experimental data for the relevant material property. Four weighting scenarios are presented, each emphasizing a different area of consideration: installed cost, fire safety, life-cycle assessment, and thermal. Materials considered are cellulose (newspaper), denim (cotton), fiberglass, stone wool, polyurethane, and polystyrene. Results of this analysis rank the materials in order of desirability and provide a method to reorder this ranking based on the priority assigned to each attribute. For the weighting scenarios presented herein, stone wool was consistently ranked as the best performer, while extruded polystyrene was typically the weakest. The intent is that this methodology would be informative for designers selecting materials and for planners contemplating revised building codes.
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Wang, Renming, Hongyang Wang, and Lingyun Wang. "Feature selection of Complex Power Quality Disturbances and Parameter Optimization of Random Forest." In 2019 4th International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igbsg.2019.8886280.
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Qiao, Su-Peng, Wei Gao, Rong-Jong Wai, and Mou-Fa Guo. "A Method of Mechanical Fault Feature Extraction for High-Voltage Circuit Breaker Via CEEMDAN and Weighted Time-Frequency Entropy." In 2019 4th International Conference on Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igbsg.2019.8886200.
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