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2. International Green Construction Code - Wikipedia

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   The IGCC will reference the Public Version 1.0/ ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2009 for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings, Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, as an alternative jurisdictional compliance option within the IGCC. The participants in designing this Standard also voiced their support for the new IGCC and its ...

3. Green Building Initiative - Wikipedia

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   The Green Globes certification program was launched in the U.S. in 2005 as an online building design management tool for architects and builders of sustainable commercial buildings. [1] Green Globes originated from a system started in 1990 in the United Kingdom called BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method). In ...

4. Sustainable refurbishment - Wikipedia

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   Sustainable refurbishment describes working on existing buildings to improve their environmental performance using sustainable methods and materials. A refurbishment or retrofit is defined as: "any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance' in other words, any intervention to adjust, reuse, or upgrade a building to suit new conditions or ...

5. Green building - Wikipedia

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   The Rachel Carson book, "Silent Spring", [21] published in 1962, is considered to be one of the first initial efforts to describe sustainable development as related to green building. [20] The green building movement in the U.S. originated from the need and desire for more energy efficient and environmentally friendly construction practices.

6. Sustainability in construction - Wikipedia

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   Sustainable construction aims to reduce the negative health and environmental impacts caused by the construction process and by the operation and use of buildings and the built environment. [1] It can be seen as the construction industry's contribution to more sustainable development. Precise definitions vary from place to place, and are ...

7. Sustainable architecture - Wikipedia

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   Building information modelling (BIM) is used to help enable sustainable design by allowing architects and engineers to integrate and analyze building performance.[5]. BIM services, including conceptual and topographic modelling, offer a new channel to green building with successive and immediate availability of internally coherent, and ...

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9. Global Sustainability Assessment System - Wikipedia

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   The Global Sustainability Assessment System [1] (GSAS) [Originally QSAS] is the first performance-based system in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, developed for assessing and rating buildings and infrastructure for their sustainability impacts.