| Title |
An Analysis of the Components and Development Characteristics of Green Building Guidelines |
| Keywords |
Green Building ; Sustainable Building ; Guideline ; Guide ; Manual |
| Abstract |
The environmental impact of construction, green building, and sustainable construction has captured the attention of building professionals across the world. Building professionals are now faced with the task of understanding and translating "strategic sustainability objectives" into "concrete action" for their projects. Many countries have developed their own assessment tools and green building guidelines. The purpose of this paper is to overview and analyze the current sustainable building guidelines in different countries in terms of their components and development characteristics. Forty guidelines were investigated and analyzed, which were developed in U.S., Europe, and Australia. The primary role of most sustainable building guidelines was to provide principles and implement strategies of green building technologies. The frequent types of target buildings are residential building and public building. Guidelines were usually distributed in the form of pdf files, online web-sites, and downloadable stand-alone programs. |