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• Basic Principles
• Assessment Criteria
• Assessment Methods
• Current Tools
Basic Principles
Environmental Environmental
Assessment Performance
Assessment Benchmarks
Methods Goals
Assessment Ratings
Tools
Basic Principles
• Scope/Scale
p of the evaluation
• Building products
• B ildi processes
Building
• Structural members/elements
• Building systems
• Single buildings
• Groups of buildings
• District,
i i urban,
b regional
i l & city
i
• New, existing & refurbished buildings
Assessment Criteria
• A broad range
g of criteria
• Qualitative issues
• Quantitative
Q tit ti issues
i
• Types
yp of criteria
• Ecological vs health-related
• Direct impacts vs indirect impacts
• Immediate vs long-term implications
• Global vs local
- site selection
- urban design
- landscape planning
- air quality
- thermal comfort
- lighting & noise
- hazardous materials
Assessment Criteria
• Assessment process
• Examine the performance of a building or its sub-
system against
i a declared
d l d set off criteria
i i
• Usuallyy voluntary
y ((aim to stimulate the market))
• Scale of performance
• Measure & assess relative performance
• Assign ‘points’
points or ‘score’
score to various aspects
• Quantitative criteria: relative to a baseline
• Qualitative
Q li i criteria:
i i presence/absence
/ b off suchh features
f
Assessment Criteria
Indoor environmental
quality
q y
R d chart
Radar h for
f assessing
i multiple
l i l criteria
i i
“Ecopoint” concept in
th ENVEST (environmental
the ( i t l
impact estimating) tool
(UK BRE)
One “ecopoint”
p is equivalent
q to:
- 320 kWh electricity
- 83 m2 Water: enough to fill 1,000 baths
- 65 miles
il byb articulated
ti l t d truck
t k
- landfilling 1.3 tonnes of waste
- manufacturingg 3/4 tonnes brick (250
( bricks))
- 540 tonne kms by sea freight
- 1.38 tonnes mineral extraction
- 300 miles
il off urban
b driving
d i i in
i new petrol
t l car
(Source: UK BRE)
Assessment Methods
• Common approaches
pp
• Checklists or forms
• Computer-based
C t b d methods th d
• Spreadsheet or computer programs
• Models used
• Environment model
• Product model
• Life
if cycle
l model
d l
• Data required: from simple to very detailed
Assessment Methods
• Examples
p
• Europe:
• BREEAM-UK
BREEAM UK
• ECO-PRO (Germany)
• E P P & PIMWAQ (Fi
EcoProP (Finland)
l d)
• EQUER (France)
• ECO QUANTUM (Netherlands)
( h l d)
• Canada & USA:
• BREEAM-Canada & BEPAC-Canada
• LEED (USA)
( )
• BEES (USA) (for building products)
Assessment Methods
• Examples (cont
(cont’d)
d)
• Asian countries:
• Japan Green Building Guide & CASBEE
• Korea Green Building Rating System
• Taiwan Green Building Label
• HK BEAM
HK-BEAM
• CEPAS (HK)
• International reference model
• GBTool (Green Building Challenge)
Current Tools
• BREEAM - UK
• Building Research Establishment Environmental
Assessment Method
• Types of buildings
• Offices
• Homes (known as EcoHomes)
• Industrial units
• Retail units
• Used as a reference in many countries
• Website: www.breeam.org/
www breeam org/
Current Tools
• BREEAM - UK
• Credits awarded for a set of performance criteria
• Energy, water, pollution, materials, transport, ecology
and land use, health and well being
• Construction & building operational management
• A weighting
g g system
y is applied
pp to determine final rating
g
• Stages of building development
• Design
D i & procurementt
• Management & operation
• Post construction review
Current Tools
Indoor
Environmental
Quality Sustainable
23% Sites
22%
Materials &
Resources
Water
20%
Efficiency
Energy
gy & 8%
Atmosphere
27%
(Source: USGBC)
Phillip Merrill Environmental Center LEED™ 1.0 Certification:
Headquarters PLATINUM
A
Annapolis,
li MMaryland
l d
Notes from the Project Team: LEEDTM was instrumental in
conveying the importance of the sustainable elements of the
design to CBF
CBF’ss Board of Trustees.
Sustainable Sites
• Site Selection: Erected in Smart Growth Funding Area on footprint of
existing structure. 26.6 acres remain undisturbed in Land Trust.
• Educational Model: Interpretive trails & demonstrations for public
visitors
• Storm/Waste Water: All Composting Toilets & Bioretention/Wetland
• Resource Protection: Woodland, Wetland, & Tidal Water Restoration
Water Efficiency
• Water: Rainwater Catchment & Reuse for Hand Washing & Irrigation
Criteria - energy (8) - airborne - air quality - adapt- - design & - location &
- land (3) emissions (10) ability (5) construction trans-
(Number)
- water (2) (17) - thermal - mainten- process (6) portation (1)
- materials - solid waste quality (4) ance of - building - loadings on
(4) -visual perform- operations immediate
(7) ance ((6)) planning
p g ((7)) g
surroundings
- liquid quality (7)
waste (4) - noise & (4)
- other acoustics (3)
loadings (2) - controll-
controll
ability of
system (2)
Total(102) 20 27 26 11 13 5
• HK-BEAM
• Previous versions:
• Version 1/96R - for new office designs
• Version 2/96R - for existing office buildings
• V i 3/99 - for
Version f new residential
id ti l buildings
b ildi
• Hotel Building Environmental Assessment Scheme
(HBEAS)
• Issues covered:
• Global issues & use of resources
• Local issues
• Indoor issues
Current Tools
• HK-BEAM
• New versions 2004:
• HK
HK-BEAM
BEAM 4/04 New Buildings
• HK-BEAM 5/04 Existing Building
• Approach
A h
• Site aspects
• Materials aspects
• Energy use
• Water use
• Indoor environmental q
quality
y ((IEQ)
Q)
• Innovation & performance enhancements
Current Tools
• HK-BEAM
• Weighting system to reflect
• Relative importance of criteria
• Relative areas of the spaces
• Overall
O ll assessment grade
d (IEQ must meet min.
i %)
• Platinum 75% (Excellent) min. IEQ 65%
• Gold 65% (Very Good) min. IEQ 55%
• Silver 55% (Good) min. IEQ 50%
• Bronze 40% (Above average) min. IEQ 40%
• Website: www.hk
www.hk-beam.org.hk
beam.org.hk
Current Tools
• Comprehensive
p Environmental Performance
Assessment Scheme (CEPAS) for Buildings
• A consultancy study is commissioned by
Buildings Department to develop this scheme
• Currently
l under
d consultation
l i andd internal
i l review
i
• Buildingg types:
yp
• Residential
• Non-residential
Non residential
• Applications: new buildings, major addition &
alternation existing buildings
alternation,
Building life cycle stages for CEPAS
Resource IEQ
Use
Building
Building
Loadings Amenities
Site Site
Impacts Amenities
Context
Neighborhood Neighborhood
Impacts Amenities
Physical
y Human
• GBTool
• GBC (Green Building Challenge) for 19 countries
• Issues
I considered
id d
• Resource consumption (R)
• Environmental loadings (L)
• Indoor environmental quality (Q)
• Quality of service (S)
• Economics (E)
• Pre-operations management (M)
• Architectural q
quality
y ((? not included))
Source: http://greenbuilding.ca/GBIC.htm
Source: http://greenbuilding.ca/GBIC.htm
Current Tools
• Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’ss First Green Building
• Location: Pennsylvania, USA
• Completion: 1999
• Description: [videorecording,
[videorecording 27 min.]
min ]
• http://www.gggc.state.pa.us/building/scrob.html