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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Green building rating systems"”.
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Assessing Sustainability in Developing Country Contexts: The Applicability of Green Building Rating Systems to Building Design and Construction in Madagascar and Tanzania
Buildings have significant and complex impacts both in their construction and in their use. Green building rating systems have been developed and promoted in more economically-advanced countries to offer guidelines to reduce negative impacts and to promote sustainable practices of building …
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Designing a Pre-assessment platform to promoting the use of Green Star NZ rating systems at the early stage
The impact of non-green buildings on the climate and the environment has prompted people to investigate green building standards aimed at the implementation of rating tools or certifications. Since then, various green building rating systems have been introduced to the construction industry …
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Understanding the issues of project cost and time in sustainable construction from a general contractor's perspective: case study
The green building market has seen tremendous growth in the past decade. Organizations such as the US Green Building Council have emerged to become a dominant leader in the building industry. Although the green building rating systems are cross-disciplinary, much of the focus has been directed …
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Greening existing buildings with LEED-EB!
The market of existing office buildings is going green. While early adopters of green buildings were owner-occupiers, there is a current wave of nonowner-occupied office buildings seeking Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Existing Buildings certification. This thesis examines …
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Green vs. sustainable: analyzing and expanding LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design)
… of including new socio-economic indicators in green building rating systems in order to promote innovative practices in the building planning, design, construction and operations by introducing a broader definition of sustainability in the building industry. It provides a comparative analysis …
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Investigating Gentrification and the Role of Green Infrastructure
… for cities through mitigation of gentrification. Green building rating systems, like LEED, were designed with environmental sustainability in mind. Sustainability holistically however is about preserving the environment, economics, and equity. A scoping literature review confirmed that LEED is …
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Changing Mindsets: Sustainable Design in Historic Preservation
… inherently sustainable. Unfortunately, current green building practices focus more on the ever-growing technological innovations that can be applied to new construction. A lack of education and collaboration amongst historic preservation and sustainable design practitioners, scholarly research …
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Life Cycle Optimization of a Zero Carbon Building for CO2e, Energy, and Cost Using Stochastic Controls for an Energy System Integrating a Heat Pump, Solar Air Wall, PV, and a Smart Grid-integrated Thermal Storage (SGTS) Hydronic Battery
The life cycle optimization (LCO) of zero carbon buildings (ZC) was examined, using a laneway house built with photovoltaic and solar air wall (SAW) renewable energy collection, air-to-water heat pump, smart grid-integrated thermal storage (SGTS) hydronic battery with an internet-connected …