Many countries had issued a series of green building evaluation standards since 1990.
The available sustainable building evaluation systems have produced a new environmental design paradigm.
Following this analysis, Chinese standards on green building evaluation were also discussed in detail.
This article presents the findings of a project focusing on building evaluation capacity in 10 Ontario public health units.
Computational building evaluation tools have the potential to provide an effective means to support informed design decision making.
Thus, little factual information is available as to the cost and burden of computational building evaluation and its effectiveness in building design support.
In large-scale, multi-site contexts, developing and disseminating practitioner-oriented evaluation toolkits are an increasingly common strategy for building evaluation capacity.
However, few studies have explicitly dealt with the ascertainment and quantification of the actual effort needed to understand, master, and apply computational building evaluation tools.
The building evaluation is performed through a pushover analysis, and performance objective are obtained through initial stiffness of the pushover curve.
This chapter offers an overview of Green Building Evaluation Systems including the USGBC Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEEDD) Certification and Rating System and the Green Globes Certification Rating System.
The nonlinear static procedure (NSP), based on pushover analysis, has become a favourite tool for use in practical applications for building evaluation and design verification.
