Study about Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure
Abstract:~ This study concentrates on application and comparison of two assessment tools for sustainable building, GBTool and CASBEE. The two tools are used to assess a project, the Holmen multi-family building in Stockholm, Sweden, and its sustainable performance. The role of assessment tools is to provide a platform of communication between different stakeholders to make the demonstration projects can be easily learned about their sustainable success. The communication can result in stimulation on both need of the purchasers and supply of the investors enhances the overwhelming growth of the sustainable building market.
Introduction:~ Among various needs of daily life, the built environment constitutes more evident production than other industries such as food, textile, transportation etc. The entire production process of the built environment comprises materials utilization and energy consumption which result in the apparent environmental problems. To reduce the damages of the environment, it is of vital importance to realize how the building production process, including phases of planning, design, construction and operation, influences the environment and how to evaluate the significance among variety of factors. Keep reading…
