| Title |
A Study on Environment-friendliness in Tokyo Regional Hospitals - Focused on Indoor and Healing Environment - |
| Authors |
Lim, Yeonghwan ; Park, Suhyeon |
| DOI |
http://dxdoiorg/105659/JAIK_PD201531765 |
| Keywords |
Green Building Design ; Japanese Regional Hospital ; G-SEED ; LEED ; BREEAM ; Healing Environmen |
| Abstract |
As the concerns for the environment are gradually prioritized, increasing interests of environment-friendly buildings are drawn Numerous researches about healthcare buildings have been performed however, they were mainly focused on convenience or healing condition for medical treatments The hospitals consume energy and generate CO2 as twice as the residential or commercial buildings do Various green building certification systems are globally arranged But, it isn't easy to find certification criteria for the green hospital besides the US and UK's ones which are specially designed to evaluate environment-friendly medical buildings(Lim & Yoo, 2010) In this study, we investigates current conditions of Tokyo Regional hospitals in environment-friendly standpoint and also investigates the foreign certification criteria and systems for the green healthcare building and finds the possibility to apply them to Korean Green Building Certification Flexibility of architectural design compatible to renovation and expansion of the hospital, barrier-free design, and hospital design related to the healing environment should be mostly considered to the Korean Green Building Certification for healthcare facilities It is because the goal of environment-friendly hospital is depended upon of quality of healing-friendly environment Based on this analysis, Korean Green Building Certification for healthcare facilities will be developed in near future |