Evolution of sustainability in global green building rating tools

Wen, Baohua; Musa, Nurmaya; Onn, Chiu Chuen; Ramesh, S.; Liang, Li-Fang; Wang, Wei

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120912

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“…Moreover, most of the certification schemes set out not just to certify environmentally but more holistically sustainability as a whole, i.e., also looking at economic, social impacts/dimensions. However, in this regard the schemes are inhomogeneous as well and include more environmental criteria [61,65,68,70,71]. Ismael presents a quantitative analysis method that can potentially aid practitioners in seeing through the varying scopes of the certification schemes [68].…”

Section: Green Building Certifications Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ismael presents a quantitative analysis method that can potentially aid practitioners in seeing through the varying scopes of the certification schemes [68]. Furthermore, Wen et al argue that there is a general trend of the schemes moving more toward an equal focus on the three pillars of sustainability [70]. Generally, the certification schemes require the quantification of the building project's environmental impacts, e.g., by undertaking an LCA.…”

Section: Green Building Certifications Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

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The building sector is responsible for extensive resource consumption and waste generation, resulting in high pressure on the environment. A way to potentially mitigate this is by including environmental considerations during building design through the concept known as eco-design. Despite the multiple available approaches of eco-design, the latter is not easily achieved in the building sector. The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss what barriers are currently hindering the implementation of eco-design in the building sector and by which measures building designers can include environmental considerations in their design process. Through a systematic literature review, several barriers to implementation were identified, the main ones being lack of suitable legislation, lack of knowledge amongst building designers, and lack of suitable tools for designers to use. Furthermore, two specific tools were identified that allow the inclusion of environmental consideration in building design, along with nine design strategies providing qualitative guidance on how to potentially minimize energy and material consumption, as well as waste generation. This paper contributes a holistic overview of the major barriers to and existing tools and method for the eco-design of buildings, and provides guidance for both future research and practice.

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How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

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“…Buildings are responsible for about 39% of the global energy-related CO 2 -emissions [1]. In Europe, buildings generate 35% of the total greenhouse gas emissions and consume about 40% of the total final energy [2], making them a key player in the reduction of environmental impacts [3][4][5].…”

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“…In this regard, both public authorities and private associations worldwide have developed green building rating systems (GBRSs), voluntary schemes that measure the compliance of buildings with particular sustainability criteria [8]. GBRSs can help improve building performance, by addressing not only life-cycle environmental impacts [9] but also by evaluating social performance criteria such as building accessibility and user comfort as well as by incorporating economic evaluation methods such as life-cycle costing [5,6]. The implementation of GBRSs is growing rapidly [10].…”

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“…However, which sustainability dimensions are assessed and how they are evaluated can vary significantly from one GBRS to another [12]. An exhaustive comparison among GBRSs and their outcomes is a very complex task [13], as there are more than 600 GBRSs globally [5,8,14], each of them with its own approach, structure and weighting [15,16]. Aiming to harmonize the sustainability report of buildings in Europe and create a common set of indicators for the evaluation of building sustainability performance [17], in 2018 the European Commission launched the pilot version of Level(s) [18], a voluntary framework for sustainable buildings [19,20].…”

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Environmental Product Declarations as Data Source for the Environmental Assessment of Buildings in the Context of Level(s) and DGNB: How Feasible Is Their Adoption?

2021

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This study aims to examine the feasibility of using environmental product declarations (EPDs) as a data source for life-cycle assessment (LCA) in two sustainable building assessment schemes–the pilot version of the European framework Level(s) and the German system DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen). An EPD is a standardized and third-party certified label to communicate product-specific environmental data based on LCA. Some green building rating systems consider it a robust LCA data source and encourage its use over generic data. This work evaluates the environmental profile of the envelope of an office building in the context of level(s) and DGNB adopting EPD as a data source. The results indicate that the EPDs did not cover the mandatory scope of the schemes. Furthermore, there was a lack of EPDs appropriate to the geographical context of the case study, leading to the adoption of EPDs of products from places other than the building site and an overestimation of the environmental impacts of transportation. Moreover, the need for EPDs considering suitable and comprehensive scenarios as well as life-cycle stages beyond the product stage is highlighted. This gap, in fact, hinders the performance of a complete LCA within the analyzed building assessment schemes when relying solely on EPDs as a data source. With this paper, we wish to encourage the further development of EPDs related to the integration of more life-cycle modules and more comprehensive scenarios, considering the direction of the latest amendment of the ISO 15804 for EPDs of construction products.

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Problems of Assessing the Sustainable Development of the Russian Construction Complex

Shepelev

2022

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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Evolution of sustainability in global green building rating tools

Cited by 53 publications

References 44 publications

How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

How Lack of Knowledge and Tools Hinders the Eco-Design of Buildings—A Systematic Review

Environmental Product Declarations as Data Source for the Environmental Assessment of Buildings in the Context of Level(s) and DGNB: How Feasible Is Their Adoption?

Problems of Assessing the Sustainable Development of the Russian Construction Complex

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