A Comparison of the Green Building’s Criteria

Abstract

Abstract. Designers and clients alike are now emphasising on how to make their buildings green. Currently a lot of green councils worldwide are dealing with innovative ways to implement energy efficient new buildings. They have adopted various criteria and rating systems in an endeavour to classify buildings that contribute to environment sustainability, efficiency and users health. The aim of the paper is to present an overview of the criteria adopted by selected green building councils. This paper discusses five of the rating systems available in terms of their similarities and differences and proposes a new framework based on the project life cycle for the development of the green building criteria. Criteria during the construction phase of the building is certainly lacking such as pollution control in terms of CO 2 emission, dust, and other pollutants.

Internationalisation of Hospitals in the Wake of Green Agenda: How much more to be done?

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Literature Review on Green Cost Premium of Sustainable Building Construction

“…However, even though numerous researches have highlighted the benefits of sustainable construction practice (Abidin, 2010;Sundayi et al, 2015;Whang & Kim, 2015;Afzan, 2016;Meron & Meir, 2017), construction practitioners seem to have little interest in adopting sustainable construction practice (Yahya & Abidin, 2013;Brennan & Cotgrave, 2014;Rostami et al, 2015;Afzan, 2016;Darko et al, 2017). Surveys have indicated this lack of support is due to the higher initial cost of sustainable building construction, which is termed "green cost premium" (Ahn et al, 2013;Bahaudin et al, 2013;Hwang & Ng, 2013;Brennan & Cotgrave, 2014;Shang & Peng, 2014;Qian et al, 2015;Sundayi et al, 2015;Afzan, 2016;Dodge Data & Analytics, 2016;Dwaikat & Ali, 2016;Mao et al, 2016;Amiril et al, 2017;. The following are several examples explaining the current problem regarding sustainable building construction and its higher initial cost:  A study conducted on various types of sustainable buildings, such as residential, educational, office, commercial, public buildings, and health facilities, showed that the additional cost to construct such buildings is up to 12.5% (WorldGBC, 2013) and 5% to 10% (Hwang et.al, 2017) of the total construction budget.…”

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