Journal articles: 'Green building rating systems'

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Marchi, Lia, Ernesto Antonini, and Stefano Politi. "Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs)." Encyclopedia 1, no. 4 (2021): 998–1009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia1040076.

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Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) are typically third-party, voluntary, and market driven standards that measure buildings’ sustainability level by multi-criteria assessment, and encourage the adoption of environmentally, socially and economically sustainable practices in design, construction and operation of buildings (or neighborhoods). GBRSs aim at guiding and assessing the project throughout all its life cycle, thus limiting the negative impact on the environment, as well as on the building occupants’ health and well-being, and even reducing operational costs. Hundreds of GBRSs are now available worldwide, varying in approaches, application processes, and evaluation metrics. BREEAM, CASBEE, Green Star and LEED are among the most applied worldwide. Despite some differences, they all adhere to the same general evaluation structure: project performances ares measured using a set of relevant indicators, grouped per topics such as water management, energy use, materials, site qualities. Each assessed requirement is assigned a score/judgment, the total of which determines the level of sustainability achieved. In addition to regular updates, a current trend is to improve the effectiveness of protocols, making them more comprehensive and accurate, while keeping them easy to use.

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Kryvomaz, Т. I., A. Michaud, D. V. Varavin, and A. R. Perebynos. "French green building rating systems." Environmental safety and natural resources 27, no. 3 (2018): 40–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.32347/2411-4049.2018.3.40-48.

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Su, Ying Ming, and Yi Ping Tsai. "The Importance of the Appearance Image and Cognition of Green Building." Applied Mechanics and Materials 496-500 (January 2014): 2544–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.496-500.2544.

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When global climate change becoming a problem that is getting worse nowadays, Green Buildings have become one of the major solutions to maintaining a sustainable environment. Because most of the public interpret the messages sent by their environment through visual appearance and images, This study aims to analyze the appearance effects of U.S. LEED and Taiwan EEWH Green Building rating systems by conducting surveys on the publics cognition of green building appearances and green building rating systems, and analyzing the relationship between green building appearance and environmental cognition. The results indicate that building appearance is a key judgment reference for identifying green buildings. However, there has been no significant relationships found between green building rating system and green building appearances so far, which may cause confusion as to the publics cognition and image of green buildings. Therefore, it is recommended that building's appearance image should be included in future revisions of the green building rating systems.

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He, Yueer, Thomas Kvan, Meng Liu, and Baizhan Li. "How green building rating systems affect designing green." Building and Environment 133 (April 2018): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.02.007.

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Aye, Lu, and Dominique Hes. "GREEN BUILDING RATING SYSTEM SCORES FOR BUILDING REUSE." Journal of Green Building 7, no. 2 (2012): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.7.2.105.

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Green Building rating systems are the main vehicles for commercial application of ecologically sustainable design for buildings. Using less materials, modular design for deconstruction, long life structure, using recoverable materials are emerging concepts to reduce environmental impacts and increase the resource and economic efficiency of buildings. It has been argued that because of recent emergence of these concepts, Green Building rating systems do not fairly recognise the environmental benefits gained. This paper quantifies the impacts of the building reuse concept on the environment and the Green Building rating system scores and compares this with the energy category. It was found that lifecycle embodied greenhouse gas emission of approximately 20 kg CO2-e/m2/annum could be saved, if 80% of the office building components (structure, façade, wall, floor and roof) were reused in Australia. A second finding was that the current BREEAM 2008 and LEED 2009 tools do not provide fair recognition of the potential lifecycle embodied greenhouse gas emission reduction of building reuse compared to operational greenhouse gas emission reduction.

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Deshpanday, Ishani. "Sustainable Green Building." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. VII (2021): 2301–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.36572.

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Green building refers to a structure and employing a method that's environmentally accountable and resource economical throughout a building’s life cycle. Since buildings consume nearly five hundredth of the world's total energy, inexperienced buildings, on the other hand, consume a minimum quantity of energy with the utilization of energy economical materials. Hence, location of inexperienced buildings within the close proximity would produce an inexperienced zone and supply a far healthier setting with minimum heat island result. In India there are 2 primary rating systems for inexperienced buildings: GRIHA (green rating for integrated surround assessment), LEED (leadership in energy and setting design). Green buildings compared to standard buildings appear specifically similar and conjointly within the building use, however disagree within the operational savings and considerations for human comfort and indoor and atmosphere. inexperienced buildings get pleasure from the advantages of saving 40-50% energy by reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere; it conjointly saves concerning 20-30% of water by victimization rain gathering or gray apply techniques. It conjointly reduces VMT (vehicle miles travelled) by selecting the placement near conveyance and conveniences that helps in reduction of petrol consumption. However, on the opposite hand, inexperienced buildings face several barriers just like the high initial investment needed for construction, split incentives.

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Rasekh, Haleh, and Timothy J. McCarthy. "DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDING PROJECTS – CHALLENGES, REALITY AND SUCCESS." Journal of Green Building 11, no. 3 (2016): 143–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.11.3.143.1.

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This research concerns the delivery of sustainable building projects. These projects are defined as those which either attempt to achieve green ratings or are claimed to address certain sustainability issues. A key focus is to examine how the client's vision for sustainability is achieved or compromised by the practicality of construction. Two sustainability rating systems, the Australian Green Star and the Living Building Challenge from the U.S. are discussed. This research examines two projects; one university multipurpose building (SMART Infrastructure Facility); and an advanced research facility, the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC). The methodology used is semi-structured interviews of key participants and stakeholders for the two university building. The outcome of this research indicates that environmental rating systems are useful tools to construct reasonably sustainable buildings. Many interviewees, however, believe that for their next projects the concern would be to continue to construct sustainable buildings but not necessarily by following the strict criteria and reporting requirements of the environmental rating system.

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Kwok, May Han Grace. "Acoustic design criteria in green building rating systems." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131, no. 4 (2012): 3510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4709268.

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Doan, Dat Tien, Ali Ghaffarianhoseini, Nicola Naismith, Tongrui Zhang, Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini, and John Tookey. "A critical comparison of green building rating systems." Building and Environment 123 (October 2017): 243–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.07.007.

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Tang, K. H. D., C. Y. H. Foo, and I. S. Tan. "A review of the green building rating systems." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 943 (November 3, 2020): 012060. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/943/1/012060.

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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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Solak, Kemal. "Green Building Concept with The World’s Largest Seismic Isolated Hospital in Turkey." Applied Research on Civil Engineering and Environment (ARCEE) 1, no. 02 (2020): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.32722/arcee.v1i02.2678.

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Certification systems used to test green buildings have become popular nowadays. In addition, there has been a gradual increase in the involvement of the players in the construction sector and public awareness of sustainability. These systems, which are useful in mitigating the building's environmental impacts, reveal difficulties in their implementation, especially for devoloping countries. Because of the problems affecting the population, such as air pollution and health problems, most world states came together and held conferences to take joint binding decisions. In Turkey, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is first on the total number of certified green buildings, followed by the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). This article summarizes the methodology used by some of these rating methods, shows a comparative approach between these rating systems, and provides an overview of how green building relates to sustainable development practices. Lastly, the building of the hospital was analyzed using LEED certification system as a case study and the differences in the results were evaluated.

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Sabbagh, Mostafa, Osama Mansour, and Abdulaziz Banawi. "Grease the Green Wheels: A Framework for Expediting the Green Building Movement in the Arab World." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (2019): 5545. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205545.

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It has been over three decades since the term “sustainable development” was coined in Brundtland’s report in 1987, and 28 years have passed since the world’s first sustainability assessment method for buildings was founded by the Building Research Establishment in UK in 1990. During these three decades, many sustainability standards, codes, and rating systems were created and used to help in designing, constructing, maintaining, rating, and labeling buildings with attaining the principles of sustainability. Yet by looking at the Arab world at the beginning of 2019, one can argue that, although the Arab countries have dedicated the effort and budget to save energy, water, and natural resources, the region as a whole is still struggling to shift the paradigm of the building industry from conventional to sustainable. This struggle raises some questions; are there any challenges that Arab countries must overcome to leap forward to a prosperous sustainable building design and construction practices? Why are existing green building rating systems such as Estidama in United Arab Emirates, global sustainability assessment system (GSAS) in Qatar, and ARZ in Lebanon lagging behind the trends of green building rating systems in the developed countries? What are the coordinated steps needed to expedite this movement across the region? The current study explores the limits and potentials of the green building industry in the Arab world through analysis of the green building initiatives, academic scholarship activities in architecture and engineering sectors, and feedback from green building professionals across the Arab world. This article introduces a theoretical framework to expedite the green building movement in the Arab region; the framework is shaped by the environmental, social, and economic factors that are crucial to the transformation of the building industry from conventional to sustainable. The study seeks to support a line of research that could help governments in the Arab world catch up with the global green building trends.

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Ismaeel, Walaa S. E. "Drawing the operating mechanisms of green building rating systems." Journal of Cleaner Production 213 (March 2019): 599–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.115.

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Zhang, Daxin, Jinyue Zhang, Jianing Guo, and Haiming Xiong. "A Semantic and Social Approach for Real-Time Green Building Rating in BIM-Based Design." Sustainability 11, no. 14 (2019): 3973. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11143973.

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While many countries have developed green building rating systems (GBRSs) to promote the concept of green buildings, it is difficult for designers to achieve better sustainability in the design process when using the real-time green building rating score as a reference. This paper proposes an intelligent green building rating (iGBR) framework supported by a semantic and social approach to realize real-time rating in building design. The framework features four components: (1) An ontology that is used to encapsulate the knowledge of green building rating, (2) score calculation rules that are encoded in Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL), (3) Autodesk Forge, which is employed as a building information modeling (BIM)–based design platform to synchronize design models from different professions in the cloud, and (4) a group chat tool to connect all project participants in a social communication environment to effectively exchange data/information required for score calculation. A prototype iGBR system is developed based on the Evaluation Standard for Green Building of China (ESGBC) to verify the framework, so that a total of 95 articles can be assessed automatically in the real-time approach.

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Remizov, Alexey, Aizhan Tukaziban, Zhuldyz Yelzhanova, Tokzhan Junussova, and Ferhat Karaca. "Adoption of Green Building Assessment Systems to Existing Buildings under Kazakhstani Conditions." Buildings 11, no. 8 (2021): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11080325.

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The construction industry is an enormous economic sector with a profound economic, social, and environmental impact. The building sector is responsible for one-third of total energy consumption and, notably, construction activities account for 39% of the total carbon emissions in the world. Therefore, nowadays, the promotion of green building concepts is essential for all countries. Typically, the sustainability level of a building is evaluated by specified certification systems through rating assessment tools. The development of national assessment tools is necessary for the developing world due to environmental, social, and economic issues; consequently, a national assessment tool adopted under specific local conditions would provide a more precise assessment. This paper analyzes the rating system of BREEAM, LEED, CASBEE, and Green Globes certification systems and discusses their adoption with assessment measures for the existing buildings in Kazakhstan’s reality. The following main criteria were discussed during six roundtable sessions: sustainable site and landscape, energy and carbon footprint reduction, water and wastewater management, indoor environmental quality, sustainable building materials, commissioning, and maintenance. A set of assessment criteria and measures were suggested, and 43 existing buildings were assessed. Only eight buildings reached a high rating level. The “sustainable site and landscape” and “indoor environmental air quality” categories were the categories with the highest scores; otherwise, “energy and carbon footprint reduction” with “water and wastewater management” had the lowest average scores. One of the buildings was evaluated separately by several experts to check the consistency of the suggested assessment measures. This evaluation also provided insight into how the assessors’ knowledge and experience may change the overall rating scores obtained. The most critical issues for the existing buildings in Kazakhstan’s reality were discussed. Despite the widespread adoption of green certification methodology, the application of global certification systems in Kazakhstan remains complicated due to the lack of knowledge and limited awareness.

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Katiyar, Manoj, Ashok Kumar Sahu, Sanjay Agarwal, and Pravesh Tiwari. "Role of Spatial Design in Green Buildings-A Critical Review of Green Building Rating Systems." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1116, no. 1 (2021): 012166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1116/1/012166.

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Al-Surf, Mohammed, Ashraf Balabel, Mamdooh Alwetaishi, et al. "Stakeholder’s Perspective on Green Building Rating Systems in Saudi Arabia: The Case of LEED, Mostadam, and the SDGs." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (2021): 8463. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158463.

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This paper discusses in detail the current level of awareness of the Saudi Arabia stakeholders regarding the use and application of green building rating systems. The paper used a mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods through an exploratory method that utilized an online survey targeting experts and construction stakeholders to fill the gap of previous research papers and support the argument of the increase in the level of the awareness of stakeholders in the use and application of green building rating systems in Saudi Arabia. This research aims to focus on the level of awareness of the Saudi construction market stakeholders on green building rating systems in Saudi Arabia with focus on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design system LEED and Mostadam. It also investigated which rating system responds to the need of the Saudi construction market with regard to energy conservation and water consumption more effectively. The methodology utilized in this research used a combination of primary and secondary data where the primary data were a survey sent to Saudi construction stakeholders where a total of 1320 respondents participated in the survey. Results from this research showed a promising number of agreements between the participating stakeholders to the level of awareness of green building rating systems in Saudi Arabia and to the willingness to use internationally recognized rating systems such as LEED and the use of locally recognized systems such as Mostadam. Furthermore, the research aims to link the results with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on SDGs 6 and 7. The results show a high level of appreciation and agreement to the importance of energy and water conservation in green buildings that will be using either LEED or Mostadam in Saudi Arabia and accomplish the targets outlined under the SDGs.

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Ismaeel, Walaa S. E. "Midpoint and endpoint impact categories in Green building rating systems." Journal of Cleaner Production 182 (May 2018): 783–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.217.

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Gou, Zhonghua, and Stephen Siu-Yu Lau. "Contextualizing green building rating systems: Case study of Hong Kong." Habitat International 44 (October 2014): 282–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.07.008.

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Pushkar, Svetlana, and Oleg Verbitsky. "SHEARING LAYERS CONCEPT AND LEED GREEN BUILDINGS IN BOTH RATING SCHEMES AND CERTIFIED PROJECTS." Journal of Green Building 13, no. 4 (2018): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/1943-4618.13.4.77.

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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construction and Major Renovations v3 (NC) and LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance v3 (EB) schemes were studied to examine the application of the shearing layer concept to green buildings. The manners in which (i) rating systems in their current configurations and (ii) certified projects in their practical applications treated the long life-expectances in buildings and short life-expectancies in systems were questioned. To maximally reduce nondemonic intrusion, we studied only those states in the United States in which statistically viable numbers of projects had been completed in 2016. A two-way mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) model was used to evaluate the interaction between two types of buildings (i.e., NC vs EB) and two sets of sub-layers (i.e., Site, Structure, and Skin from the Building layer and Services, Space Plane, and Stuff from the Service layer). The discrepancy in the case of a new building and the similarity in the case of a renovated building between rating schemes and certified projects were revealed: (i) the NC rating scheme prefers to emphasize the Service layer (SL), whereas newly constructed projects prefer to emphasize the Building layer (BL) due to the high performance of the Site and Structure sub-layers; (ii) the EB rating scheme prefers to emphasize the Service layer, as do renovated building projects, due to the high performance of the Stuff sub-layer.

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Seghier, Taki Eddine, Mohd Hamdan Ahmad, Lim Yaik Wah, and Williams Opeyemi Samuel. "Integration Models of Building Information Modelling and Green Building Rating Systems: A Review." Advanced Science Letters 24, no. 6 (2018): 4121–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.11554.

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Šuman, Nataša, Mojca Marinič, and Milan Kuhta. "A Methodological Framework for Sustainable Office Building Renovation Using Green Building Rating Systems and Cost-Benefit Analysis." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (2020): 6156. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156156.

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Sustainable development is a priority for the future of our society. Sustainable development is of particular importance to the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, both for new buildings and for the renovation of existing buildings. Great potential for sustainable development lies in the renovation of existing office buildings. This paper introduces a new framework for identifying the best set of renovation strategies for existing office buildings. The framework applies selected green building rating system criteria and cost-effective sustainable renovation solutions based on cost-benefit analysis (CBA), and thus provides a novelty in decision-making support for the sustainable renovation of office buildings at an early-stage. The framework covers all necessary steps and activities including data collection, determination of the required level of renovation, selection of the green building rating system, identification of impact categories and criteria, and final evaluation and decision-making using CBA. The framework can be used in conjunction with different systems and according to different regional characteristics. The applicability of the addressing procedure is shown through a case study of a comprehensive renovation of an office building in the city of Maribor.

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Pamu, Yashwanth, and Mahesh Kona. "A Comparative Study on Green Building Rating Systems in India in terms of Energy and Water." CVR Journal of Science & Technology 16, no. 1 (2019): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.32377/cvrjst1604.

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Khogali, Hind Abdel Moneim. "Comparison of Four Global Sustainable Building Rating Systems Carried out With Focus on Hot and Dry Climate." Journal of Sustainable Development 9, no. 2 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v9n2p1.

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<p>Several assessment programmes has been developed worldwide on the environmental and energy effect of buildings. The aim of this study is to identify the main and sub categories of sustainable design. The researcher has investigated and compared four global building rating systems, namely leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in USA, Emirates Green Building Rating System (ESTIDAMA) in Abu Dhabi city, Qatar Sustainability assessment System (QSAS) in the State of Qatar and Australian green Star rating system (AGBC rating system), in Australia. This paper focuses mainly on their processes, contents, similarities and differences, processes, evaluation, their development and wither these systems are applicable to all environments?</p><p>The paper outlined six main categories developed by these global rating systems being: Sustainable site, indoor environmental quality, materials, water efficiency, power supply system and innovations. Sub categories were added according to their social, cultural, economical and legislations conditions.</p>The paper recommended adding four main categories suitable to hot and dry climate.

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Lwin, May, and Kriengsak Panuwatwanich. "IDENTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF GREEN BUILDING ASSESSMENT INDICATORS FOR MYANMAR." Journal of Green Building 16, no. 2 (2021): 143–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.16.2.143.

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ABSTRACT To accommodate its increasing population, the Myanmar government has planned to implement smart city projects in Yangon and Mandalay by 2021 and to build 1 million homes by 2030. However, such projected growth does not coincide with Myanmar’s current level of preparedness for sustainable development. Myanmar presently has no standards and specifications for green buildings; it solely relies on the adoption of those from overseas, which may not always be compatible with the unique context of Myanmar. Hence, this study was aimed to identify appropriate green building assessment indicators for Myanmar as an important first step for future rating system development. Nine categories and forty-eight criteria were initially identified by reviewing the widely adopted seven rating systems and investigating existing certified green buildings. The Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (Fuzzy AHP) was used to determine and rank the importance levels of the identified assessment indicators. Results showed that “energy efficiency” and “water efficiency” are the most crucial categories with weights of 17.48% and 13.95%, respectively. Compared to other rating system standards, “waste and pollution” was distinctively found as an important category for Myanmar. Energy-efficient architectural design was ranked as the highest priority among all criteria. These findings serve as a building block for the future development of a Myanmar green building rating system by revealing assessment categories and criteria that are most relevant to Myanmar’s built environment.

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Shan, Ming, and Bon-gang Hwang. "Green building rating systems: Global reviews of practices and research efforts." Sustainable Cities and Society 39 (May 2018): 172–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.02.034.

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Soebarto, Veronica, and David Ness. "RETHINKING THE ADOPTION OF GREEN BUILDING RATING SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES." Journal of architecture&ENVIRONMENT 10, no. 1 (2011): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.12962/j2355262x.v10i1.a523.

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Chodnekar, Haresh, Prachi Yadav, and Harsh Chaturvedi. "Review and Assessment of Factors Associated with Green Building Rating Systems." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 795, no. 1 (2021): 012033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/795/1/012033.

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Lu, Shilei, Minchao Fan, and Yiqun Zhao. "A System to Pre-Evaluate the Suitability of Energy-Saving Technology for Green Buildings." Sustainability 10, no. 10 (2018): 3777. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10103777.

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Rating systems for green buildings often give assessments from the perspective of the overall performance of a single building or architecture complex but rarely target specific green building technologies. As some of the rating systems are scored according to whether the technologies are used or not, some developers tend to pile up energy-saving technologies blindly just for the sake of certifications without considering their suitability for the application. Such behavior may lead to the failure of achieving the energy goals for green buildings. To solve this problem, a system that pre-evaluates the suitability of green building energy-saving technologies is devised based on modified TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution) method, SA (simulated annealing) algorithm and unascertained theory-based data analysis method. By setting indices from technology performance, economy, human satisfaction aspects and by using the building prior information and measured database of technology usage, this system can make a quantifiable and multi-dimensional grading assessment for the target green building energy-saving technologies in the design stage. The system aims at helping the designer choose technologies in the design phase that best enhance the performance of the finished green building. It also helps prevent the sub-optimal performance of unsuitable technologies caused by the “pile up” behavior mentioned earlier. To verify this evaluation system, two building designs which use energy-recovery technology are evaluated, and the predicted performance for both designs matched the actual operation of the technology in the buildings themselves well.

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Almeida, Laura, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le, and Yujuan She. "Effects of occupant behaviour on energy performance in buildings: a green and non-green building comparison." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 27, no. 8 (2020): 1939–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-11-2019-0653.

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PurposeOccupants are one of the most impacting factors in the overall energy performance of buildings, according to literature. Occupants’ behaviours and actions may impact the overall use of energy in more than 50%. In order to quantify the impact that occupant behaviour has in the use of energy, this study simulated interactions between occupants and the systems present in two actual buildings. The main aim was to compare the deviations due to occupant behaviour with the actual conditions and energy use of the two buildings.Design/methodology/approachThe buildings used as a case study in this research were green buildings, rated according to the Australian Green Star certification system as a 6-star and a non-rated building. The two buildings are university buildings with similar characteristics, from Western Sydney University, in Sydney, Australia. A comparison was performed by means of building simulations among the use of energy in both buildings, aiming to understand if the green rating had any impact on the energy related to occupant behaviour. Therefore, to represent the actual buildings' conditions, the actual data related with climate, geometry, systems, internal loads, etc. were used as input variables in the simulation models of the green and the non-rated buildings. Both models were calibrated and validated, having as target the actual monitored use of electricity.FindingsOccupants were categorized according to their levels of energy use as follows: saving, real and intensive energy users. Building simulations were performed to each building, with varying parameters related with lighting, plug loads, windows/doors opening, shading and air conditioning set points. Results show that occupant behaviour may impact the buildings' energy performance in a range of 72% between the two extremes. There is no significant relationship between the green rating and the way occupants behave in terms of the energy use.Originality/valueThis study intends to show the impact of different categories of occupant behaviour in the overall energy performance of two university buildings, a non-rated and a green-rated building, having as reference an actual representation of the buildings. Additionally, the study aims to understand the main differences between a green-rated and a non-rated building when accounting with the previous categories.

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Jamnický, Martin. "Green Building Studio Test Result Comparison with Test from ANSI ASHARE Standard 140-2011." Advanced Materials Research 1057 (October 2014): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1057.11.

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Computer simulation is an important and proven method to help understand and analyze the thermal performance of buildings, and predict their operational energy consumption. Building energy simulation is widely used to help design energy efficient building envelopes and HVAC systems, develop and demonstrate compliance of building energy codes, and implement building energy rating programs. However, large discrepancies exist between simulation results from different building energy modeling programs. This leads many common users lack confidence in the results from building simulation methods.

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Tabrizi, Aydin. "Sustainable Construction, LEED as a Green Rating System and the Importance of Moving to NZEB." E3S Web of Conferences 241 (2021): 02001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202124102001.

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In this study, in order to evaluate the possibility of achieving the Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) goal, the history of sustainable construction, and available green-rating systems with specific focus on Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) rating system were explained. LEED rating system was selected as the most prevalent rating system in the industry to evaluate and analyze its efficiencies/drawbacks specifically in regards to the energy efficiency. The goal of this study is to answer an important question of the reasons to focus on NZEB concept when LEED rating has come up with a detailed certification process, which is somehow beneficial in regards to energy reduction. NZEB concept is defined as an evolution of very energy-efficient approach and it requires that the buildings have zero energy balance on an annual basis. This paper explains this questions in detail and it consists of three parts: in the first part sustainable building rating system including LEED certification is explained. The second part explains the deficiencies of LEED rating system in regards to the energy performance of buildings and the last part explains the NZEB concept and the movement towards the NZEB target.

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Mohamed, Mady A. A. "Green building rating systems as a design target for public buildings: a case study analysis." Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 11, no. 2 (2017): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/pie.2017.088847.

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Knowles, Chris, Christine Theodoropoulos, Corey Griffin, and Jennifer Allen. "Oregon design professionals views on structural building products in green buildings: implications for wood." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41, no. 2 (2011): 390–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x10-209.

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Buildings have been shown to have impacts on the environment. Consequently, green building rating systems have become a tool to help reduce these impacts. The objectives of this study were to identify gaps in information and access to green building materials as viewed by Oregon design professionals. The scope was limited to the major structural materials: concrete, steel, and wood. This article focuses on the results unique to wood products. Information was collected through group interviews. Each group was composed of professionals representing different aspects of material selection and construction of different scales. The results showed that structural material selection is driven by building code, cost, and building performance requirements. The environmental performance of the material was not considered. However, once the material was selected, designers tried to maximize environmental performance. The results showed that green building rating systems do not influence structural material selection, and interviewees noted that there is room for improvement in this area. Respondents had a positive view of wood and a strong desire to use more wood, particularly Forest Stewardship Council certified wood. Wood was viewed as the most sustainable structural material available. However, there were some concerns about wood products, with formaldehyde emissions being the most significant.

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Zhang, Chong, Chengliao Cui, Ying Zhang, Jiaqi Yuan, Yimo Luo, and Wenjie Gang. "A review of renewable energy assessment methods in green building and green neighborhood rating systems." Energy and Buildings 195 (July 2019): 68–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.04.040.

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Sánchez Cordero, Antonio, Sergio Gómez Melgar, and José Manuel Andújar Márquez. "Green Building Rating Systems and the New Framework Level(s): A Critical Review of Sustainability Certification within Europe." Energies 13, no. 1 (2019): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13010066.

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Increasing problems regarding pollution and climate change have long been demonstrated by scientific evidence. An important portion of carbon emissions are produced by the building sector. These emissions are directly related not only to the building’s energy consumption, but also other building attributes affecting the construction and operation of existing buildings: materials selection, waste management, transportation, water consumption, and others. To help reduce these emissions, several green building rating system (GBRSs) have appeared during the last years. This has made it difficult for stakeholders to identify which GBRSs could be more suitable to a specific project. The heterogeneity of the GRBS scenario requires the creation of a transparent and robust indicator framework that can be used in any country within the European Union (EU), which is a common EU framework of core sustainability indicators for office and residential buildings Level(s) with the goal to provide a solid structure for building sustainability certification across all countries of the EU. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the most common GBRSs within the EU: Building Research Establishment Assessment Method (BREEAM), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB), Haute Qualité Environnementale (HQE), and Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED), and a bottom up comparison of the influence in the final score produced by the indicators stated by Level(s). The indicators studied show a different influence of Level(s) indicators on every GBRS, where LEED and BREEAM were most affected while HQE and DGNB were less so. This paper demonstrates the heterogeneity of current GRBSs in the EU scenario and the difference between sustainability assessments, where DGNB seems to be more aligned to the current EU framework. Finally, the paper concludes with the need to work to achieve alignment between the GBRS and Level(s).

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Lu, Weisheng, Bin Chi, Zhikang Bao, and Anna Zetkulic. "Evaluating the effects of green building on construction waste management: A comparative study of three green building rating systems." Building and Environment 155 (May 2019): 247–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.03.050.

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Roos, Richard, and Dr Mark Gorgolewski. "THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BOMA BESt AND LEED CANADA EB:O&M IN GREENING COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS." Journal of Green Building 6, no. 3 (2011): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.6.3.76.

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LEED Canada for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (LEED Canada EB:O&M) and Building Owners and Managers Association's Building Environmental Standards (BOMA BESt) are complex green rating systems that offer owners, managers, consultants, and tenants distinct value propositions for existing buildings. Upon close examination, significant variations between the systems are evident in certification process, cost, rigor, engagement, marketing, accessibility, transparency, management, and program philosophy. Despite the many differences between the systems, they are often seen to be complementary programs and are sometimes used in tandem for the same building. This paper reports on a survey of the industry perceptions of the value and strengths of the LEED Canada EB:O&M and BOMA BESt rating systems with respect to the above criteria. As a result of the fundamentally different nature of the programs, preferences for LEED Canada EB:O&M and BOMA BESt are determined by stakeholder values and the programs are used for a variety of reasons.

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Weerasinghe, Gamini, Karthik Soundararajan, and Janaka Ruwanpura. "LEED–PDRI Framework for Pre-project Planning of Sustainable Building Projects." Journal of Green Building 2, no. 3 (2007): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.2.3.123.

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Green buildings help in sustainability, in terms of achieving energy efficiency and minimizing the utilization of natural resources. Additional benefits include long-term sustainable building management and maintenance. There is, therefore, compelling motivation for the building of sustainable projects. This inspiration has led to the development of the leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED) rating systems and projects by the United States Green Building Council and the Canadian Green Building Council. Proper building project management (BPM) of such projects is warranted. Pre-project planning is a crucial part of BPM that ensures delivery and performance of construction projects. Pre-project planning is defined as the process that encompasses all the tasks between project initiation and detailed design. There is a positive relationship between comprehensive pre-project planning and enhanced project performance. Given the motivation for environmentally sustainable projects and proper management of constructing such projects, diligent pre-project planning for such projects is required. This paper investigates the use of the LEED rating system in pre-project planning of sustainable construction projects by developing a matrix that combines the LEED and the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) developed by the Construction Industry Institute. The conceptual matrix and its application to a case study demonstrates that the value of linking pre-project planning with LEED to improve the decision making process during planning and designing of building projects to improve sustainability.

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Luangcharoenrat, Chakkrit, and Singh Intrachooto. "Comparative Analysis of Green Building Rating Standards for Improvement Opportunities." Periodica Polytechnica Architecture 50, no. 1 (2018): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ppar.12656.

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The development of economy and society has resulted in an unstoppable and growing consumption of natural resources and the degradation of the environment. Social problems and environmental degradation are the result of these developments. Balancing social, environment and economic is the goal of sustainable development. Many countries have developed environmental assessment standards to support sustainable development concept. This paper presents a comparative study of nine (9) green building evaluation standards from both developed and developing countries to find similarities and differences in order to make future improvement on each standard to fulfill sustainable development concept. The comparison is done by reorganize criteria listed in those standards to match BREEAM evaluation criteria for ease of study. The study found that most building evaluation systems focuses mainly on environment and then economic while pay less attention on social side and most criteria gives higher emphasis to energy and environmental mitigation issues with "proactive" measures. The future development of evaluation standard, social impact need to be improved and minimization of building material use need to be preventive more than reactive management. "This paper is the revised version of the paper that has been published in the proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2018 (Luangcharoenrat and Intrachooto, 2018)."

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Lee, Bruno, Marija Trcka, and Jan L. M. Hensen. "Embodied energy of building materials and green building rating systems—A case study for industrial halls." Sustainable Cities and Society 1, no. 2 (2011): 67–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2011.02.002.

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Liu, Perry C. Y., Huai-Wei Lo, and James J. H. Liou. "A Combination of DEMATEL and BWM-Based ANP Methods for Exploring the Green Building Rating System in Taiwan." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (2020): 3216. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083216.

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Green buildings are a crucial environmentally friendly component for sustainable human habitation and for the preservation of a healthy ecosystem. This study proposes a novel hybrid model to explore the influential relationship of various indicators and their importance for a green building evaluation system. First, a green building index system is established based on a review of recent literature on green building evaluation systems. Then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique is utilized to determine the influential relationship among the criteria. Finally, a novel best worst method (BWM)-based analytic network process (ANP) model is applied to determine the influential weight of the criteria. The result indicated that the top five ranked criteria are all classified within the two dimensions of waste reduction and energy saving. An empirical case study of an example in Taiwan is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. Management implications are also provided.

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Raveendran, Reshna, Ahmed Hassan, and Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul. "Diagnoses for Potential Enaction of Water–Energy Nexus in Green Building Rating Systems: Case Study of the Pearl Rating System of United Arab Emirates." Energies 13, no. 20 (2020): 5284. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13205284.

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The green building rating system within the sustainability framework of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pearl Rating System (PRS), similar to most international rating systems such as LEED, considers several strategies, regulations, and policies to improve the energy and water performance in buildings. However, the applicability of considering water as part of energy or the fact that the utilization of energy mandates the usage of water seems unexplored and is not yet included in any of the existing building rating systems. A unified approach of water and energy resources is thus vital for future considerations in energy policy, planning, and the inclusion of the same in the sustainability rating systems. This paper investigated, as a case study, the prospects of water–energy nexus in the prevailing UAE green building rating system—PRS—to uncover whether any water conservation strategy has an adverse effect on energy and vice versa. The review revealed that the major shortcomings of the PRS in terms of water–energy nexus strategy are the usage of reference codes that are not suitable for the UAE’s climate and geographical conditions, inexistent synergy between some credit categories, the oversight of rebound effects, and a need for credit reassessment. The paper also recommends that any proposed strategy to realign credit categories in terms of the water–energy nexus with the potential risk to also have a hidden negative rebound effect that researchers and practitioners should identify lest the water–energy tradeoff brings unprecedented repercussions. The theoretical analysis establishes that the bifurcating management of water and energy in the sustainability rating system and energy policy needs to be revisited in order to reap more sustainable and optimum results that are environmentally, ecologically, and financially consistent.

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Umar, Usman Aminu, Hassan Tukur, Mohd Faris Khamidi, and Adam Umar Alkali. "Impact of Environmental Assessment of Green Building Materials on Sustainable Rating System." Advanced Materials Research 689 (May 2013): 398–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.689.398.

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As education and concern pertaining to environmental and sustainability issues like implications of resources destruction, decrease in bio-diversity as well as climate change multiply, so has the need for housing developments that lead to less damaging effects on the environment, whilst enabling living standard to be sustained. Builders, developers and material providers have addressed this demand by creating approaches and technologies that minimize energy, water and main material consumption, decrease greenhouse gas emissions and sustain or enhance surrounding ecological systems and services. Several administration and non-governmental institutions in addition have aimed to change the sustainability of the building industry by developing green rating systems that can be used to evaluate the environmental performance of new and existing building. This paper discusses material resources criteria and the impact as a sustainable rating tool.

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Bansal, Sunita, Srijit Biswas, and S. K. Singh. "Review of green building movement and appraisal of rating systems in Indian context." Clarion- International Multidisciplinary Journal 8, no. 1 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2277-937x.2019.00001.7.

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Awadh, Omair. "Sustainability and green building rating systems: LEED, BREEAM, GSAS and Estidama critical analysis." Journal of Building Engineering 11 (May 2017): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2017.03.010.

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Alwisy, Aladdin, Samer BuHamdan, and Mustafa Gül. "Criteria-based ranking of green building design factors according to leading rating systems." Energy and Buildings 178 (November 2018): 347–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.08.043.

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Deutsch, Nikolett. "Key Trends and Application of Sustainability Rating Systems in the Hungarian Office Building Segment." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 26 (2018): 216. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n26p216.

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Enhancing the sustainability of buildings and construction activities has become a key issue over the last decades. Since in the European Union, the construction industry is responsible for about the 40% of the total final energy consumption, around 36% of total CO2-emission, and 32% of total waste generation it is not surprising, that the ambitious energy and climate protection goals of the EU pose enormous challenges to the sector. Although in the relevant literature there is a lack of common understanding of what sustainable and green buildings are, several quantitative and qualitative methods regarding the assessment of buildings’ sustainability, and approaches suitable for the examination of economic, social and environmental effects of buildings and the built environment have been emerged. The goal of this paper is to highlight the main principles and characters of green and sustainable buildings found in the literature, to summarize the key characteristics of the most important voluntary certification schemes applied in the European Union, and to present the current trends in the Hungarian Office market segment regarding the use of green certifications.

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Worden, Kelly, Meghan Hazer, Christopher Pyke, and Matthew Trowbridge. "Using LEED green rating systems to promote population health." Building and Environment 172 (April 2020): 106550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.106550.

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