Professor Jean Carassus of CSTB has put together a report entitled:
Are "green" office buildings keeping their promises?
Actual performance, real estate value and "HQE® Exploitation" certification
Which answers to five questions:
Professor Jean Carassus of CSTB has put together a report entitled:
Are "green" office buildings keeping their promises?
Actual performance, real estate value and "HQE® Exploitation" certification
Which answers to five questions:
--- Update: Presentations for download - see attachments. ---
Helsinki Workshop on SB Assessment Methods and Tools Sponsored by iiSBE and Formas was held from 12:00 to 18:20 on Monday, 17 October.
More detailed information coming soon - stay tuned and check this post for workshop presentations later on.
During last week's highly successful SB11 conference in Helsinki, iiSBE held its traditional SBChallenge - a collection of projects from all over the world.
Twenty-five projects from thirteen countries have entered the SBChallenge, and have provided a full paper, Key Performance Indicators and a video presentation.
This material is now available at http://sbchallenge.iisbe.org
BSA 2012 1st International Conference on Building Sustainability Assessment
Organised by: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development and University of Minho
Conference Overview:
Building sustainability involves various relations between built, natural and social systems and therefore comprises a complex of different priorities that require consideration at each stage of a building's life-cycle. To cope with this complexity and to support sustainability systematic, holistic and practical approaches to building design need to be developed. These approaches are aimed to support the development of a building design that achieves the most appropriate balance between the different sustainability dimensions and can be used with two different objectives: to support the sustainable building design; and to assess and recognized the efforts of the design teams in developing high-performance buildings. Building sustainability assessment methods and tools can be used since the very beginning of the design stage in order to gather and report information for decision-making during the different life-cycle stage of a building.
Thus, BSA 2012 aims to gather a large number of international academics, researchers and practitioners in building sustainability assessment, providing a innovative discussion in the field. A set of workshops on BSA tools is also being prepared.
Visit the conference website for full details about the conference scope, topics and submission procedures at:
http://www.bsa2012.org