scholarly journals Green Building Performance Assessment in China Using a Cloud Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Juan Li ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
Shilpi Bora ◽  
Bimenyimana Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Cloud Model ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Building Life Cycle ◽  
Building Operation ◽  
Green Structure

Abstract Background. The recent pursuit of energy conservation, emission reduction, and sustainable development are the demanding aspect in green building construction. Green building concept becomes important in the current building life cycle to mitigate environmental issues. In this way, a strategy for surveying the performance of a green structure is attractive. Consequently, this investigation intends to build up a methodical methodology for distinguishing the elements that decide the effective development and activity of a green structure and makes a technique for assessing green building execution.Methods. To accomplish these objectives, a comprehensive literature review was first conducted, followed by determining the performance of a green building to create a qualitative fuzzy set of performance metrics. A cloud model was used to analyze the factor hierarchy using weighted entropy to quantify the performance of a green building. Ultimately, an inside and out contextual analysis was led to check the exact discoveries.Results. A green building performance index that was created based on expert evaluations and weighted the indexes subjectively and objectively. Likewise, a standard cloud yardstick was also created in the comprehensive cloud. The sustainability of the building was qualified and assessed by comparing cloud images with the standard cloud. It has been analyzed that, the execution measurements and persuasive components make appraisal models for a green building. This investigation can help the development business to distinguish and manage issues that emerge in building green buildings. The coherent framework that the researchers have developed for assessing green buildings provides a solid foundation for further research into sustainability and green building operation. The result indicates that the industry acquires benefit by suggesting effective measures that can be implemented in all stages of green building construction.Conclusion. The analysis results demonstrated that this investigation builds up a novel exhibition appraisal of a green building which makes a target establishment for assessing building execution. Additionally, the findings are helpful for industry specialists to improve green building construction. Besides, the outcomes give significant data to governments and other invested individuals to create target models for green building development programs.

scholarly journals Understanding Facilities Management Practices to Improve Building Performance: The opportunity and challenge of the facilities management industry over the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Astri Anindya Sari
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Facilities Management ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
The World ◽  
Actual Operation ◽  
Building Operation

There is much evidence that green building which is initially believed to be the solution to solve the problems of climate change and energy crisis can not perform as expected. The fact that green buildings consumed more energy and emit more CO2 than expected during the actual operation is due to the problems of inefficiency in building operation and maintenance. Facilities management integrates the entire component of the built environment including people, process, place and technology to make sure that the built environment system works optimally. It offer important contributions to address the challenge of inefficiency in terms of building operation and maintenance thus make facilities management industry become one of the fastest growing industry in the world. By doing a literature review, this paper intends to understand more about the practices of facilities management in different part of the world. It is found that there is a stark contrast in the development of facilities management practices in the western countries as compared to that in the eastern countries. The industry of facilities management is relatively new and the research related to that field is still limited thus provide a huge opportunity to develop it in the future since the importance of this field is increasingly recognize.

GREEN CLEANING: AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF MALAYSIAN GREEN BUILDINGS

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Nadiah Zainol ◽  
Izran Sarrazin Mohammad ◽  
Maizan Baba ◽  
Neo Bee Woon ◽  
Abdul Qayyum Nazri
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Green Cleaning ◽  
Maintenance Stage ◽  
Operations And Maintenance ◽  
Reduce Energy Consumption ◽  
Specific Regulation

This paper discusses the importance of green cleaning for green buildings during the operations and maintenance stage. The investment on green buildings is often driven by the aim to reduce energy consumption. However, many tend to overlook the importance of the operations and maintenance aspect of the building, particularly the green cleaning aspect. Green cleaning is a major contributor to Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) where IEQ is one of the important criteria that should be considered during the assessment of green building performance. In Malaysia, there is no specific regulation set for green cleaning. Green Building Index (GBI) tools itself does not specifically highlighting green cleaning in their assessment tool. Thus, based on literature review, this paper discusses the benefits of implementing green cleaning and how green cleaning can contribute to achieving better green building performance.

Factors Hindering Green Building Performance: A Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsau Kar Yen ◽  
Izran Sarrazin Mohammad ◽  
Maizan Baba ◽  
Rohaya Abdul Jalil ◽  
Nurul Nadiah Zainol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Performance Potential ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
And Control

The demand for green buildings in the property market is substantially increasing. The motivation for the investment on green buildings ranges from environmental concerns and social benefits to financial savings during the operational stage. However, these perceived benefits have been argued to be mostly theoretical and yet to be empirically proven. There is often a performance gap between the expected and the actual measured performance of green buildings once operational. Green buildings simply fail to perform as to what it was intended despite the thorough design and technological considerations put at the initial stage of their development. Hence, by reviewing various literatures, this paper targets to indicate and discuss the factors that hinder green buildings from achieving their fullest performance potential. Six theoretical factors namely miscommunication, technologies used, modeling tools, construction process and handover, occupant behavior and management and control were identified from various literatures. The findings in this paper will be a commencement for further studies pertaining to non-performance of green buildings. 

scholarly journals Green Buildings Amid Efficiency and Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosof M Khalifa ◽  
Salah M Mady
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Reduce Energy Consumption ◽  
Reduction Of Energy Consumption ◽  
Building Life Cycle ◽  
Building Operation ◽  
Made In

The vast increase of energy consumption, global warming and the harm they cause to the environment, emerge to be a major obstruction that distresses the world today. The current work views one of the methods that the world focused on as means of reducing the environmental harms and that is, through green building, or in more common words sustainable buildings. Those means, covers the exercising of a wide range of applications including merging of new and specific technologies in which through fulfilling its basis, the process of evaluation of the building takes place in terms of its harmony with the environment, reduction of energy consumption, and the reduction of the environmental problems caused by the building life cycle starting from defining of location, design of the building, operation, maintenance, repairing and up to the renewal of the building.  Despite the significance of green building, no profit nor implementations has yet been made in Libya. The latter is due to the lack of awareness by many Libyan social groups. From here, the idea behind this paper crystalized. It aims to spread and enhance the knowledge and techniques of green building. It also penetrates into the green building features and advantages that are considered to be a preliminary step to start its application in a wide range coinciding with the grand progress that the country has witnessed in the field of construction and housing. This paper concludes that it is possible to reduce energy consumption and the harm it causes to the environment after the implementation and merging of green building techniques and should be applied on a large scale covering the whole country. 

scholarly journals Green building performance assessment in China using a cloud model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Juan Li ◽  
Chen Wang ◽  
Wei-bin Chen ◽  
Shilpi Bora ◽  
Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Cloud Model ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Performance

scholarly journals International Scenario of Certifications and Rating Systems for Green Buildings.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1678-1683
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Building Project

Sustainable development in the construction industry demands implementation of a green rating procedure and certification to assess building. The rating tools set benchmarks for green measures for constructing and use of buildings to reduce their negative impacts on environment thereby making it more sustainable. In this paper, Rating systems and certifications across the globe are studied and compared to give a clear understanding of all for any green building project to be evaluated upon. There are 18 major certifications and 18 rating systems all over the world, however in India there are three rating systems which are mostly used viz. IGBC, GRIHA, LEED. It is recommended that a more simple system is needed for enhancing the participation of all stakeholders in Green building construction thereby leading to sustainable development.

scholarly journals DO OCCUPANTS IN GREEN BUILDINGS PRACTICE BETTER ENERGY SAVING BEHAVIOUR IN COMPUTER USAGE THAN OCCUPANTS IN CONVENTIONAL BUILDINGS?

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Sakina Mokhtar Azizi ◽  
Suzanne Wilkinson ◽  
Elizabeth Fassman
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Office Buildings ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Building Performance

Green buildings are not entirely successful in achieving energy saving targets. One way of improving energy targets is to encourage occupants to adopt energy saving behaviour. To date, energy saving behaviour has been given less focus in improving green building performance than other energy saving initiatives, such as retrofitting buildings for green features. This study uses comparison case studies between green buildings and conventional buildings in New Zealand to better understand the energy saving behaviour of occupants. Questionnaires were distributed to occupants in green and conventional buildings to evaluate the extent of energy saving behaviour practiced and to identify potential strategies to encourage energy saving behaviour. The objective of this paper is to investigate the level of energy saving behaviour between green and conventional office buildings to see if people in green buildings perform better energy saving behaviour than people in conventional buildings in computer usage. The findings do show better energy saving behaviour from occupants in green buildings than occupants in conventional buildings. The paper shows why this is the case. The recommended strategies to encourage energy saving behaviour used by different buildings are also discussed. Strategies include raising education awareness on energy efficiency among the building occupants, energy saving commitments, and to have an active building manager assigned for energy related matters.

scholarly journals Content Validation of the User Attitudinal Component and Factors in Green Building

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Izran Sarrazin Mohammad ◽  
Tsau Kar Yen ◽  
Rohaya Abdul Jalil
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Human Aspects ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Development Of Instrument

The green building performance gap has been well acknowledged in building industry and one of the contributors to these issues is the behaviour of users in the building. One of the element that influences the behaviour of users is the attitude of the user towards the building environment. The consideration of the human aspects especially the user attitudinal component and factor is essential as an approach in improving the building performance. This paper aims to identify the user attitudinal component and factor from the literature and to validate the research instrument by using the content validation method. The procedure of content validity include the conceptualization and development of instrument throughout an extensive literature review and to validate the relevance of the user attitudinal component and factors to be considered in green buildings. Three user attitudinal components and seventeen factors were developed from the extensive review of the literature. Ten experts were chosen to appraise the instrument of research by using a quantitative content validation. Fifteen items were accepted as relevant to the study within the accepted range and two items were eliminated from the research instrument. The study’s output allows the building industry a new insight on what user attitudinal aspect to be considered and integrated when dealing in the development of green building. The output of this study greatly benefits the building designers and managers when designing, constructing and managing green buildings.

Green and Smart Buildings

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudra Rameshwar ◽  
Arun Solanki ◽  
Anand Nayyar ◽  
Bandana Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Long Time

Buildings across the world consume a significant amount of energy which is equivalent to one third of total primary energy resources available. This has led to lots of challenges with regard to supplies of energy, energy resources quick depletion, increase in building service demands, improvised comfort lifestyle along with time increase spend in builds; this all has increased the energy consumption. Even the global sustainability is also pushing the implementation of green buildings in the real world. Researchers and scientists have been working on this issue for a very long time, but still the issue is prevalent. The aim of this chapter is to present comprehensive and significant research conducted to date with regard to green buildings. The chapter provides in-depth analysis of design technologies (i.e., passive and active technologies) that lay a strong foundation for green building. The chapter also highlights the smart automation technologies which help in energy conservation along with various performance metrics.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF THE GREEN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aman Singh ◽  
Kunal Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Sustainable Resources ◽  
Environmental Consideration ◽  
Local Construction

In a world exhausting our natural resources, green building has become the ethical “in-thing” in an attempt to save our planet from despair. The bitter experience of global warming has alarmed and compelled the mankind to change the way they operate on earth. Within the construction industry, the green building concept evolved and it now gaining momentum rapidly across the world. Green building involves a building which incorporates environmental consideration into every stage of the building construction with the objectives to protect occupant health, improve employee productivity, use wisely natural resources and reduce the environmental impact. The use of sustainable resources in the construction industry should be enforced by the local construction regulations in order to save the environment. The study findings revealed that the green buildings provide better health for buildings occupants due to the improved indoor quality, development of more energy efficient products and the use of less natural resources for the satisfaction and welfare of building tenants, also to protect the ecosystem. The outcome of this research shows that green building benefits should encourage clients, consultants and invest in green buildings. The researchers in this paper talks about the requirement of green building constructions in India, and tries to find out the drivers which create a demand for purchase of green buildings.

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