green building Articles
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A Business Case for Green Buildings in Canada
This Business Case for Green Buildings highlights the benefits of Green Building, as well as the challenges and barriers facing the Green Building Industry in Canada. This document also provides a definition for a Green Building, and provides information on the growth of the green building industry in Canada. The report has been prepared with intended readership from throughout the building ...
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Green leasing issues
The past few years have witnessed an exponential growth in green buildings. According to recent studies, total green building space has been growing at a 50 percent compound rate since 2000. At the end of 2008, there were 1750 “certified” green buildings and another 13,500 projects underway that were committed to achieve green building status. The momentum toward green buildings is a result of ...
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Benefits of Residing in a Green Building
Green buildings are not just good for the environment— they are good for your wallet also. Green building features are gradually becoming second nature for sustainably built home environments and infrastructures. Their technical nuances are so overwhelming it is assumed that the concept of ‘green building’ is exclusive to real estate builders and developers. Thus, sustainable ...
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Ghost in green building
In midtown Manhattan, home of the nation’s priciest office space, the equivalent of 16 office towers, each 40 stories high, now stand empty. This statistic, from the Wall Street Journal, underscores the vast damage inflicted on commercial real estate by the economic downturn. Given the ailing market, this hardly seems the time to invest in expensive green upgrades. But a recent report suggests ...
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What makes a building green?
The terms "sustainable architecture", "green building" and "ecological design" have emerged, along with a host of similar permutations, in recent practice as environmentally friendly modes of design, construction and operation geared towards producing healthy enduring communities. However, the terms are still vague and lead to much ambiguity in their implementation. ...
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UNEP Report ‘Greening the building Supply Chain'
UNEP Report ‘Greening the building Supply Chain’ Recently released, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI) ‘Greening the Building Supply Chain’ report aims to tackle the sector’s oversized environmental footprint. There remains a relative lack of understanding about how building supply chains could ...
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QI Tower first to achieve DUAL Certification in Malaysia
Certifying an existing high rise building which was not built with green in mind was the challenge. Motivated by Malaysia’s Green Building Concept, GreenA Consultants were engaged to provide lead consultancy services for this project. In this article, you would learn how the 15 story office tower could be transfromed to sustainable despite architectural and engineering challenges. The ...
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Understanding the Green Building Toolkit: Picking the Right Tool for the Job
The green building scene is characterized by clutter and confusion. Databases, tools, ecoorganizations and eco-events vie for attention, while well-meaning advice and rules of thumb may or may not help to manage a generally complicated, difficult to understand scene. This paper aims to help bring some order to the chaos by introducing a simple tools classification system and establishing ...
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Growth of corporate social responsibility as a sustainable business strategy in difficult financial times
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become such an important concept that in some situations, it is soon to be required by law that publicly listed companies disclose ethical, social and environmental risks in its annual report. An example of CSR is the growing implementation green buildings, which are not only environmentally friendly, but also using the environment to benefit the ...
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A Business Case of Green Building Rating System: Q&A with Conserve Consultants
You can actually measure, at every point of the design and project development, where you are and systematically build upon the performance of the building, where you want to be. If you want to see how you can go up the ladder of sustainable performance, you would want to use a suitable green rating process. Click to Read ...
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Proper Design of `Green Building` is the precursor of performance and efficiency
EPC World Magazine, had a Q&A with Mr. Juzer S Kothari, Managing Director of Conserve Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Founded in 2005, Conserve is a global consulting firm based in India with expertise in high performance- energy efficient-sustainable buildings ; and is committed to enable organizations conserve energy, water, materials and resources. The firm has worked on 200+ Major Projects ...
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Green demolition certification
This paper describes a proposed certification as a means to validate 'sustainable' building removals by a government agency or building owner. It may be used for several purposes such as: pre-qualifying a contractor, issuing a deconstruction permit, documenting waste diversion goals, or for awarding incentives. Certification is awarded to any project meeting all prerequisites and earning 25 or ...
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Cost and time overrun analysis for green construction projects
Green construction projects are initiated in complex and dynamic environments resulting in circumstances of high level of uncertainty with respect to cost and duration. This is attributed to the fact that construction of green buildings requires stricter norms in terms of environmental conservation, carbon emission, construction footprint, pollution, etc. which can cause an addition to 'cost and ...
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Sustainability due diligence: LEED® as the evolving national standard
This article examines current trends in the finance and real estate industries related to due diligence and sustainability. According to the authors of the article, the emergence of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, together with the establishment and backing of the Carbon Principles by some of the world's leading financial ...
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The optimisation of building deconstruction for Department of Defense facilities: Ft. McClellan Deconstruction Project
This project entailed the removal of three identical WWII-era two-story wood-framed barracks buildings at Ft. McClellan Army Base, Anniston, AL, using varying degrees of hand deconstruction and mechanical/hand deconstruction, and a traditional demolition method. Deconstruction is the dismantling of building structures to recover the maximum amount of primarily reusable and secondarily recyclable ...
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Do certified sustainable buildings perform better than similar conventional buildings?
The aim of this study is to assess the performance of sustainable buildings. Its objective is to compare certified green buildings with similar in location, size, age and function conventional buildings by testing hypotheses that green buildings perform better than conventional ones. Objective data including building costs, energy and water consumption, material recycling, indoor pollution ...
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Integrating LCA Tools in Green Building Rating Systems
Green building rating and certification systems are intended to foster more sustainable building design, construction and operations by promoting and making possible a better integration of environmental concerns with cost and other traditional decision criteria. Different building assessment systems approach this task from somewhat different perspectives, but they have certain elements in ...
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A Market Led Strategy - UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) - Case Study
A market led strategy - UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) Engagement for strategic development The client The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) UK-GBC is dedicated to driving sustainability in the built environment, delivering education and training to organisations, advocating views to government, promoting best practice, and providing both information and contacts to help understand and ...
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United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) –Sustainable Building Climate Initiative (SBCI) ‘Greening the Building Supply Chain’ report
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) –Sustainable Building Climate Initiative (SBCI) ‘Greening the Building Supply Chain’ report The client United Nations Environment Programme’s Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (UNEP-SBCI). The challenge To produce one of the first ever ground breaking reports examining the building supply chain. To help ...
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Green Buildings: Economics and Policies
Introduction Green building has received increased attention over the past decade from both environmental economists and policymakers. While there is no single definition of “green buildings” or its related policy, researchers and organizations tend to emphasize resource efficiency in building and reducing the impacts of buildings on human health and the environment. Thus a growing ...
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