scholarly journals The Impact of Noise in the Environment on the Acoustic Assessment of Green Houses

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (No 3, September 2018) ◽  
pp. 392-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Nowoświat ◽  
Jan Ślusarek ◽  
Rafał Żuchowski ◽  
Bartłomiej P Pudełko
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Acoustic Power ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Common System ◽  
The Impact

In various green building assessment systems involving sustainable building projects, certain specific acoustic aspects are important. In Europe the most common system addressing the problem is the British system Building Research Establishment’s Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), American system Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), or German system Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB). The green building certificate comprises the assessment of noise impact generated by technical equipment of buildings on their external surroundings. The measures undertaken to counteract noise-generated pollution involve green certification, but it is also a global challenge to find appropriate technological solutions contributing to the protection of areas inhabited by people. We determined the impact of the surroundings of the assessed building in specific background noise conditions. We described the problem of appropriate selection of measurement points and the impact of noise generated by building installations on the acoustic assessment of green buildings in BREEAM system. A theoretical model of the simulated house was developed close to a road, with changes to traffic parameters including heavy vehicles and the summary acoustic power of the equipment mounted on the roof of the investigated house. We analysed the impact involving the location of the investigated building on the possibility to obtain ‘credits’ in view of environmental acoustics. Instead of a single case study, we used simulation to illustrate different situations such as the changing acoustic background represented by the existing traffic system or changing noise of the sources represented by noise generating units.

scholarly journals SEM-PLS Approach to Green Building

Encyclopedia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-481
Author(s):  
Nasim Aghili ◽  
Mehdi Amirkhani
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Renewable Materials ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Building Operation ◽  
The Impact

Green buildings refer to buildings that decrease adverse environmental effects and maintain natural resources. They can diminish energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, the usage of non-renewable materials, water consumption, and waste generation while improving occupants’ health and well-being. As such, several rating tools and benchmarks have been developed worldwide to assess green building performance (GBP), including the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) in the United Kingdom, German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB), Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in the United States and Canada, Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) in Japan, Green Star in Australia, Green Mark in Singapore, and Green Building Index in Malaysia. Energy management (EM) during building operation could also improve GBP. One of the best approaches to evaluating the impact of EM on GBP is by using structural equation modelling (SEM). SEM is a commanding statistical method to model testing. One of the most used SEM variance-based approaches is partial least squares (PLS), which can be implemented in the SmartPLS application. PLS-SEM uses path coefficients to determine the strength and significance of the hypothesised relationships between the latent constructs.

A BIM Based Application to Support Cost Feasible ‘Green Building‘ Concept Decisions

2011 ◽  
pp. 351-377
Author(s):  
Goh Bee Hua
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Rule Based System ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Energy Efficient Buildings ◽  
Cost Implications ◽  
Support Cost ◽  
Whole Life Cost

The client’s role in leading the change in the construction industry has been widely perceived as crucial and, on the theme of sustainable building, it is advocated that clients must play their role to lead in engaging industry stakeholders in managing sustainable performance of construction projects. In essence, it is the client that makes the initial decision to procure construction works and the way in which procurement takes place. This influences the degree of environmentally-friendly (or sustainable) practice that is implemented in a project. For most building owners and property developers, this decision is affected by cost. A proposed rule-based system that contains decision-support rules pertaining to the assessment of (whole-life) cost implications for building projects is described in this chapter. The system is to be developed to meet the assessment criteria of Singapore’s BCA Green Mark Scheme and to support the use of BIM for designing energy efficient buildings and beyond.

Assessing the performance of sustainable technologies for building projects

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Nelms ◽  
Alan D Russell ◽  
Barbara J Lence
Keyword(s):  
Risk Identification ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
Rooftop Garden ◽  
The Impact

At present, the performance of sustainable technologies in buildings is generally not assessed holistically, but rather from a primarily single issue perspective, e.g., only financially or environmentally. Such an approach is limited in that it ignores the interaction of the technologies within the physical facility itself as expressed through life cycle costs, the impact on the surrounding environment, design objectives of the project and its stakeholders whose value systems may conflict. This work identifies the primary cause-and-effect relationships of selected sustainable building technologies and illustrates elements of a framework for the systematic assessment of their performance from an environmental, social, economic, and technical perspective. Rooftop garden technology is used to demonstrate application of the framework. The primary goal of this work is to improve the understanding and decision-making capabilities of the building industry and government when faced with decisions regarding investment and policy regarding sustainable building technologies. A secondary goal is to identify knowledge gaps in our understanding of sustainable technologies.Key words: risk identification, sustainable technology, knowledge management, infrastructure projects, sustainable buildings.

Construction Materials and Green Building Certification

2015 ◽  
Vol 666 ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrosini Giama ◽  
Agis M. Papadopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Construction Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Environmental Evaluation ◽  
Construction Market ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Building Management ◽  
The Impact

Sustainable building management is a complex problem which needs effective, adequate and suitable assessment tools and methods to address issues of incommensurability and complexity, always considering the prevailing environmental policies and legislation. Within the frame of this paper, green certifications building schemes have been described, compared to each other and evaluated, against the background of the standards provided by the International Organization for Standardization. Emphasis have been placed on information referring to construction materials environmental evaluation based on the Life Cycle Analysis methodology and the role of construction materials selection to green building certification schemes. Finally, the impact of green certification schemes on the construction market, mainly as a tool of energy management, has also been examined in relation to the absence of mandatory international standardization in sustainable building management.

A Comparative Analysis on Materials and Resources in Green Assessment Tools for Various Countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 700 ◽  
pp. 256-265
Author(s):  
Nurul Akmam Naamandadin ◽  
Norhaizura Yahya ◽  
Abdul Razak Sapian
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Building Energy Conservation ◽  
Design Flexibility ◽  
Green Building Materials

The concept of sustainable building incorporates and integrates a variety of strategies during the design, construction and operation of building projects. The use of green building materials and products represents one important strategy in the design of a building. Green building materials offer specific benefits to the building owner and building occupants such as reducing maintenance/replacement costs over the life of the building, energy conservation, improving occupant health and productivity, and greater design flexibility. Thus, the aim of this paper is to identify the similarities and the differences for the selected green assessment tools which can be obtained stage by stage of the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2013. The study had been carried out through a comparative analysis. The finding is predicted to help the construction industry practitioners to be able to understand the assessment criteria involved at every stages in the construction process concerning on material and recourses. Especially for those who are concerned on green building and to sustain our natural environment.

GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS: COMPARISON OF TURKEY AND BULGARIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryem Geçimli ◽  
Ruşen Yamaçlı
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Local System ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Evaluation Standard ◽  
Building Assessment

Sustainability is defined as it meets the needs of present without compromising the ability of future generation’s needs. Today the topic of sustainability has the urgent importance. Especially buildings consume large amount of energy and resources. Construction sector has great impact on environment. During construction process, occupancy, renovations and/or restorations and demolition, buildings consume energy, water and sources. They are also generating waste and emit harmful atmospheric emissions. Since 1990’s countries had issued a series green building assessment scheme. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) developed by United States of America, Building Research Establishment’s Assessment Method (BREEAM) developed by United Kingdom and German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) developed by Germany are the most commonly used. There is now a proliferation of standards, rating and certification systems to assistance in order to deliver sustainable building in the marketplace. It is estimated that there are nearly 600 green certifications around the world. Green building rating programs vary in their approach with some outlining prerequisites and optional credits. Turkey and Bulgaria have some historical partnerships. So it can be useful to compare current situation of two countries in terms of green building certification. The comparison includes certification systems used in two countries. Bulgaria mainly depends on DGNB which is originally German evaluation system. Besides this some projects took LEED and BREEAM, as in Turkey. But the important difference in two countries is that Turkey has been developing its local system that is called Turkish Green Building Council (BEST). Thus in this paper the comparison mainly depends on BEST and DGNB. And also the certified projects in two countries are compared quantitatively. The benchmarks of two systems are compared in terms of similarities and differences. The characteristics of either standard system were summarized and some suggestions for improving Turkey’s evaluation standard for green building were proposed

Analyzing relationships between project team compositions and green building certification in green building projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 449-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack C.P. Cheng ◽  
Vignesh Venkataraman
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Project Outcome ◽  
Successful Execution ◽  
Project Participants ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Literature on organizational analysis identified that project participants have a certain impact on the project outcome. However, there is no study that identifies the impact of project teams and individual project participants on a green building project. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of green building project teams on green building certification. Design/methodology/approach Project information, project team information, and green building certification grade were collected using the Canadian green building database. Project team data were analyzed and organizations were ranked based on their green building project experience and collaborations with experienced green building organizations. The page rank algorithm is used to calculate the rank of organizations in order to identify the impact of organizational rank on the final green building certification grade of a project. Findings The results show a positive relationship between the green building certification grade and the number of organizations with more green building experience in a project team. The results also show that not having experienced key organizations such as owners, designers, and contractors will likely lead to a lower green building certification grade. Originality/value Impact of project teams on green building projects has not been studied before. This study used an innovative method to analyze green building project teams and to investigate the importance of green building project experience. The findings of this study provided evidence to support the influence of project team compositions in green building projects. The results presented in this paper can help project owners and managers during project team formation for successful execution of green building projects.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Green Housing: A Review of Relevant Literature

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2072
Author(s):  
Arturas Kaklauskas ◽  
Natalija Lepkova ◽  
Saulius Raslanas ◽  
Ingrida Vetloviene ◽  
Virgis Milevicius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Air ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
The Impact

This review presents an analysis of three hypotheses. The articles provide a specific perspective on green housing before, during, and post COVID-19. The validations of these hypotheses were performed by analyzing the scientific literature worldwide and by adding a statistical analysis of appropriate articles from the Scopus database. The purpose of this review is to overview the research written on housing developments during the upsurge of COVID-19 along with the responses from the green building sector, because this field appears to be rapidly emerging by the sheer volume of research studies currently undertaken. Foremost peer-reviewed journals covering construction, urban studies‎, real estate, energy, civil engineering, buildings, indoor air, management, economics‎, business‎, environmental studies,‎ and environmental sciences‎ that were published last year were selected for review. The review was conducted by applying a combination of various keywords and the criteria for paper selection, including sustainable building, green construction, green building, resource-efficient, a building’s lifecycle, COVID-19, energy, water, consumption, health effects, comfort, occupant behaviors, policy, economy, Industry 5.0, energy-efficient retrofitting, and profit. Two, innovative elements in this study stand out when comparing it with the most advanced research on green housing before, during, and after COVID-19. The first innovation relates to the integrated analyses of COVID-19 pandemic, housing policies of countries and cities pertinent to COVID-19 that impact green housing and the wellbeing of their residents as well as the impact made by residents and a housing policy on the dispersion of COVID-19. This research additionally establishes that a green building analysis is markedly more effective when the analysis comprehensively covers the life process of a green building, the participating interest groups that have their own goals they wish to implement, the COVID-19 situation, and the external micro- and macro-level environments as a singular entity.

scholarly journals Using PLS-SEM to analyze challenges hindering success of green building projects in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Quangdung Tran
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dominant Component ◽  
Construction Organizations ◽  
General Contractors ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe green building (GB) market in Vietnam is growing quite slowly. Project stakeholders are facing very much undefined difficulty to gain success of GB projects. This study focused on investigation of the critical challenges the general contractors are facing in executing GB projects in Vietnam.Design/methodology/approachThe study conducted a literature review and three in-depth interviews to define 31 potential challenges hindering success of GB projects. Data was collected from 163 respondents through the questionnaire survey and was analyzed by the mean ranking technique, EFA and PLS-SEM.FindingsThe result found general contractors in Vietnam are facing the four components of challenges, namely “Planning activities-related challenges”, “Organizational activities-related challenges”, “Onsite management and control activities-related challenges” and “Green supply chain-related challenges”; and all of them have statistically significant effects on success of GB projects in Vietnam. Furthermore, the most dominant component was related to the non-readiness of external GB supply chain.Research limitations/implicationsThis present study has several notable limitations that may be addressed by future research. First, the data was collected from the quite small sample; and sampling is not randomly conducted. The findings may be tested by a larger dataset from a nationwide population. Also, the generalization of the findings may be limited because the data was only collected under the viewpoint of general contractors within the specific context of Vietnam; future studies should extend to developers and/or project managers, etc.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest for practical measures to enhance success of GB projects in Vietnam, including (1) completing the system of legal regulations and technical codes, standards, guidelines on GB, (2) providing incentive policies to promote the R&D activities on GB and (3) providing educational programs to improve the awareness and capacity on GB in domestic construction organizations, especially medium and small subcontractors.Originality/valueIn order to fill the gap of the existing literature, this study seeks to gain a better understanding on critical challenges hindering success of green building projects under the view point of general contractors with reference to the context of Vietnam – a developing economy. This study first identified potential challenges, then evaluated the impact of the key components of challenges on success of GB projects.

scholarly journals An Investigation of the Selection of LEED Version 4 Credits for Sustainable Building Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 7081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duy Hoang Pham ◽  
Byeol Kim ◽  
Joosung Lee ◽  
Yonghan Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Leed Certification ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Additional Costs

The U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program supports sustainable construction as part of the effort to address climate change and resource depletion. It is the world’s most popular green building certification system, with more than 146,400 projects. Satisfying the LEED requirements brings many benefits to a project’s design performance and adds community value, but it does incur additional costs and challenges. This study examined the choices made by those working on the 222 LEED New Construction version 4 (LEED-NC-V4) projects that were certified between September 2014 and March 2020 to determine how the LEED project teams selected appropriate LEED goals. The results reveal interesting insights into the way project LEED goals and the credits corresponding to the target certification level were chosen, as well as the links and trade-offs between the various credit options. Based on these findings, useful suggestions are made for ways to help LEED project teams achieve their target certification levels and encourage authorities to continue to improve their local green regulations. The analysis of actual certified projects’ data makes it possible to re-evaluate the effects of newly updated requests in LEED v4 in the light of the stated goals of the USGBC.

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