In search of sustainable construction: the role of building environmental assessment methods as policies enforcing green building

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Roine Leiringer ◽  
Stefan Christoffer Gottlieb ◽  
Yan Fang ◽  
Xiaoyu Mo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Sustainable Construction

scholarly journals Sustainable Construction through Industry Self-Regulation: The Development and Role of Building Environmental Assessment Methods in Achieving Green Building

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8853
Author(s):  
Roine Leiringer
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Voluntary Certification

The role of industry self-regulation in facilitating sustainable development has gained increasing recognition over the past two decades. As a result, voluntary certification standards have become ever more common and have been portrayed as effective means of enforcing more environmentally beneficial practices across a range of industries. In this paper, we consider the role of one such type of standard, building environmental assessment methods (BEAMs), and the role they have played in the transition towards green building in the construction industry. Drawing on the theory of strategic action fields, and using the case of HK BEAM in Hong Kong, we investigate the origins, development and impact of BEAMs in what is a highly de-centralised and fragmented industry. The paper concludes with reflections on the need to extend focus from the contents of the BEAMs in terms of categories, criteria and weightings, to instead more actively consider the “taken-for-granted” assumptions around sustainability and the dominant institutionalised practices in construction.

scholarly journals The process of adaptation «green» standards BREEAM international in Russia and role of participants

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 05001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery Telichenko ◽  
Gavin Dunn ◽  
Andrey Benuzh
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
State University ◽  
Building Research ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Moscow State University

The article describes the first official meetings between the leaders of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, BRE Global Limited and the Russian Green Building Council in Moscow on the topic of the localization of the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) to for the Russian Federation. It outlines the main steps taken and the actions to be undertaken of the parties to those proposed activities. Then a brief overview is provided of the main aims of the partners’ organisations, their positions in the countries and their purposes. The main part of the article summarises the benefits of an international “green” standard. There is an introduction to the National Scheme Operators, the processes involved in the BREEAM schemes and the role assessors play. The main intention for the article is to show the potential for synergy when connecting the country’s largest organisations involved in sustainable construction.

Role of Renewable Energy Techniques to Design and Develop Sustainable Green Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 1185-1197
Author(s):  
Pradeep Tomar
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

This chapter presents the role of renewable energy techniques to design and develop a sustainable framework for green building. The first viewpoint is identified with the earlier structure and the low encapsulated energy building materials for the design and development of a framework for green building. The primary perspective is to manage energy protection using renewable energy techniques in the green building. Green building interchangeably can be used with the term's sustainable construction or green construction. So, durable construction means using environmentally responsible and resource-efficient procedures in development to be ensured of sustainability throughout the lifetime of the building. This chapter also presents the combination of renewable, energy-based technology for green building construction and sustainability with the economics of renewable energy.

Role of Renewable Energy Techniques to Design and Develop Sustainable Green Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 230-242
Author(s):  
Pradeep Tomar
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

This chapter presents the role of renewable energy techniques to design and develop a sustainable framework for green building. The first viewpoint is identified with the earlier structure and the low encapsulated energy building materials for the design and development of a framework for green building. The primary perspective is to manage energy protection using renewable energy techniques in the green building. Green building interchangeably can be used with the term's sustainable construction or green construction. So, durable construction means using environmentally responsible and resource-efficient procedures in development to be ensured of sustainability throughout the lifetime of the building. This chapter also presents the combination of renewable, energy-based technology for green building construction and sustainability with the economics of renewable energy.

Role of Renewable Energy Techniques to Design and Develop Sustainable Green Building

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Pradeep Tomar
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

This chapter presents the role of renewable energy techniques to design and develop a sustainable framework for green building. The first viewpoint is identified with the earlier structure and the low encapsulated energy building materials for the design and development of a framework for green building. The primary perspective is to manage energy protection using renewable energy techniques in the green building. Green building interchangeably can be used with the term's sustainable construction or green construction. So, durable construction means using environmentally responsible and resource-efficient procedures in development to be ensured of sustainability throughout the lifetime of the building. This chapter also presents the combination of renewable, energy-based technology for green building construction and sustainability with the economics of renewable energy.

Rethinking Private Authority

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica F. Green
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Multilateral Environmental Agreements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Delegation Of Authority ◽  
Private Authority ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Treaty Implementation

This book examines the role of nonstate actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. It identifies two distinct forms of private authority—one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, the book shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years, largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules have been created in the past two decades. The book traces how this dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green building practices to sustainable tourism. It persuasively argues that the configuration of state preferences and the existing institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases on climate change provide evidence for the book's arguments. The book demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to today's most pressing environmental problems.

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