A comparative analysis of site planning and design among green building rating tools

Huo, Xiaosen; Yu, Ann T.W.; Wu, Zezhou

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.01.099

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“…Huo et al [12,37,51] suggested a wider range of proposed factors relate to project site planning for green buildings based on the current rating tools including the Assessment Standard for Green Building (ASGB), Building Environmental Assessment Method (BEAM), Green Mark (GM), BREEAM, LEED. They also examined selected participants' perceptions about the propose factors.…”

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“…Table 1 gives a summary of all the identified attributes (the category index is explained in the next section). As presented in Section 2.2, the attributes adopted by Huo et al [12,37], listed in the last column of Table 1, were selected from the green building rating tools. This research enhanced the list with additional attributes proposed by other previous researchers (refer to Table 1).…”

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Construction site layout planning has been evaluated by many green building rating tools [30,[37][38][39]. Huo and Ann [37] carried out a comprehensive investigation to evaluate the effectiveness of five international green building rating tools from site planning and design perspectives. The comparative study revealed that each rating tool emphasizes different aspects of site planning in green buildings, and identified the main variables for effective site planning and design.…”

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Green Performance Evaluation System for Energy-Efficiency-Based Planning for Construction Site Layout

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The location of temporary facilities in a construction project and the entire site layout plan directly affect project objectives such as time, labor cost, and material transportation and handling. The layout of construction sites also affects entrainment factors such as energy consumption, carbon footprints, and overall construction operation productivity. While site layout planning has been intensively investigated from a project objectives perspective, there have been very few studies of energy-efficiency-based planning, or of the sustainability performance of site layouts. This study developed a green performance evaluation system aimed at improving the sustainability of construction site layouts. The identified factors include six sustainable evaluation categories covering energy conservation and environmental protection, people-oriented principles, construction efficiency, intensity of economic growth, intensity of space use, and the overall control of process. An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was adopted to determine the weight of each attribute and a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method was established to carry out the evaluation. The 23 attributes adopted in this paper were identified in the literature; however, the major contribution of this paper is the development of a green performance evaluation system. This system integrates both qualitative and quantitative attributes and provides an overall evaluation of the environmental effectiveness of a construction site layout. The proposed evaluation system was validated with a commercial building project. The average utilization ratio of the case study site was calculated as 94%, and lessons learned are discussed in this paper. The case study analysis identified available site spaces around the building and examined how the arrangement of resources and facilities ensures effective connection between construction activities. The findings showed that the facility’s layout plays a crucial role in energy consumption and green performance. The proposed system will support construction project managers to create high-performance construction site layouts in more scientific and systematic ways.

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“…They found that there was a large overlap in the criteria of the indoor environmental quality among these methods. The Building Environmental Assessment Method (BEAM) was found [18] to allocate the highest importance to "site planning and design". In [19], the authors compared project management in LEED, GG-Green Globes, and GM-Green Manufacturing, confirming that all three of them allocate around 20% of the credits to items related to project management because of its impact on reducing costs and eliminating barriers.…”

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A Holistic Approach to the Environmental Certification of Green Airports

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2019

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Airports around the world are more and more environmentally concerned, increasing their efforts in reducing aviation impacts by applying environmental management, certification systems, or other types of ecological rating systems to their infrastructures and operation. Especially relevant are the airports’ efforts to manage and reduce their CO2 emissions through Airport Carbon Accreditation, the efforts made by Eurocontrol to encourage collaborative environmental management, or the increasing numbers of airports worldwide that get their terminals certified according to several world-recognized Green Building Rating Standards (GBRS). However, although these standards are state-of-the-art sustainability valuation programs, none of them fully cover all the environmental impacts of aeronautical activity at an airport. This paper presents the results of an exploratory research where the use of a GBRS into a more holistic certification scheme for airports is discussed and areas of challenge are highlighted. The paper seeks to shed some light on the value of holistic approaches from the perspective of maximizing environmental management efficiency and effectiveness, the integration of actions of individual airport partners to potentially encourage greater coordination of efforts, the challenges of dealing with both construction and operational impacts within one scheme, and the accountability difficulties.

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Analytical Review of Green Building Stakeholders in China

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2019

Green Energy and Technology

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A comparative analysis of site planning and design among green building rating tools

Cited by 66 publications

References 15 publications

Green Performance Evaluation System for Energy-Efficiency-Based Planning for Construction Site Layout

Green Performance Evaluation System for Energy-Efficiency-Based Planning for Construction Site Layout

A Holistic Approach to the Environmental Certification of Green Airports

Analytical Review of Green Building Stakeholders in China

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