Sustainable buildings are achieved through integrated building design—an approach to design and construction that involves the participation of owners, contractors, suppliers, building users, and design professionals during the initial design phase and at other key points in the design process

Sustainable buildings are buildings which: · enhance the quality of life and offer customer satisfaction · offer flexibility and the potential to cater for user changes in the future · provide and support desirable natural and social environments · maximise the efficient use of resources and energy

Sustainable buildings can be defined as “those buildings that have minimum adverse impacts on the built and natural environment, in terms of the buildings themselves, their immediate surroundings and the broader regional and global setting ” (Hasegawa, 2003). At present, there are many schools

considerable success in the today’s market, this concept is only the first step towards the sustainable buildings. Over the past three decades, researchers discussed other approaches for assessing the sustainability of a given development, including buildings. The paper presents a short summary of indices

Integration of indoor environmental concerns in sustainable buildings requires a comprehensive, science-based assessment of building environmental performance. Indoor environmental quality must be assessed in the context of total building performance and the aggregated impacts on the indoor

The Malaysian building industry has over the years been developing and working towards a more sustainable and green architecture. The needs for SBRS (Sustainable Building Rating System) become more apparent with the increasing demand from building end-user for Green rated building. This is also

A framework has been established to discuss the different topics of Sustainability in the context of buildings. The framework includes the dimensions of time and space and the dimensions of ecology, society, and economy. Buildings are shown to have a substantial share on the total environmental

The quality of indoor air is linked to detrimental health effects. Indoor air is a research and design issue in healthy housing, rarely considered in sustainable building. By analysing the relation between sustainable building and indoor air, a framework for discussion is constructed. The question

The primary energy demand of residential and commercial buildings still counts for about one third of the total world energy demand (ECBCS 2002). Therefore, energy efficient building with the lowest possible impact on our natural environment is much more than a demand, it is a need in the entire

ABSTRACT: The Web represents a particularly important innovation by offering access to text-based information, searchable databases, photographs, sound recordings, and video images. For energy professionals, the Web is more than a place to post one's favourite paper-based reports; it's a venue for one-on-one as well as group communications, tracking down detailed energy data, acquiring software, running dynamic on-line calculations, and even collecting energy data from remote sites. Tools and software that incorporate environmental cost and considerations could be a valuable help to take well-informed decisions on environmental management and cost. Efforts to develop tools and methodologies have increased. Industry consultants and companies are developing new software systems and tools. Even if numerous initiatives still in experimental phase, the engagement of important government agencies (DOE- U.S. Department Of Energy, EPA- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) in the putting to point of some of these instruments indicates concrete possibilities for their dissemination in times not excessive long. The aim of this relation is to provide information to users of existing tools and software available on the Internet. Elementary rules, guides, handbooks, guidelines, database and software are first examined; then LCA based systems, rating systems and web-based tools are focused. The web-based approach is the most promising: regardless of the computing resources they have available, users have access to powerful computational engines residing on the host server and tools are accessible regardless of platform. Finally, the Web provides immediate access to all the other relevant information that is constantly evolving on the Internet.