Week 3 Green Building Rating System

Green building is environmentally sustainable, which aims to maximize the conservation of resources, protect the environment and reduce pollution throughout the building’s life cycle. Green building rating systems is tool to assess the buildings’ sustainability and improve them.

BREEAM established by the UK was the first in the world. Consequently, many green building rating systems including LEED (America), GBTOOL (Canada), CASBE (Japan) and GREENSTAR (Australia) have gradually been established, which are the most representative of the mainstream of the international evaluation systems. With the direction of these rating systems, many countries. Many countries have had a mature grasp of the green building design involved a variety of related technologies such as energy efficiency, environmental protection, recycling of resources, etc. Meanwhile, a large number of samples about green building have emerged, which have a positive impact on the popularity of these green concepts.

Reference List:

Zhu, R., Wang, Q. and Li, N. 2014, ‘A Study on the Weight of Indicators of Foreign Typical Green Assessment Systems for Existing Building’, CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY, 43(10).

Jeroen van der Heijden 2014, ‘Benchmarking building performance: what can we learn from LEED?’, The Fifth Estate, April 2014.