"environmental assessment system" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a process or method used to evaluate the potential environmental impact of a project, policy, or action. Example: The government has implemented a rigorous environmental assessment system to ensure that all proposed developments comply with environmental regulations and protect natural resources.
The aim of this paper is to present developed building environmental assessment system oriented to energy performance and the significance weight determination.
This paper deals with the proposal of a building environmental assessment system, especially one dealing with the assessment and weighting of the energy performance of buildings in Slovakia.
The developed building environmental assessment system applicable in the conditions of Slovakia consists of 6 main fields and 52 indicators and incorporates systems and methods used in many other countries.
The Slovak building environmental assessment system (BEAS) involves the evaluation of the following fields: site selection and project planning, building construction, the indoor environment, energy performance, water management and waste management [5].
Building environmental assessment systems and tools has been developed for various types of buildings and for each stage of their life cycle, comparison of the methods and tools developed in different countries showing that these systems are quite diverse.
The percentage weights for energy performance field in the significant environmental assessment systems vary from 19 to 41.3 %, the lowest significant weight of 19%% for BREEAM and the highest of 41.3 % for BEAM.
Our future research work will be an implementation of aspects and indicators given in European standards for the sustainability assessment of buildings to the BEAS applicable in Slovakia and a comparison of BEAS with significant and globally used building environmental assessment systems.
Based on interview data and literature review, Vensim software was used to build a two-stage environmental benefit assessment system dynamics (SD) model which covered construction waste reduction management subsystem, waste generation and disposal subsystem, and environmental benefit assessment subsystem.
The dramatic scale-up of renewable energy over the coming decades is likely to pose significant challenges for coordinating land use allocation, environmental assessment, energy system planning and the design of greenhouse gas abatement policy.
The ineffectiveness of the environmental impact assessment system is corroborated by recent scholarly articles that argue that poor follow-up is one of the key elements behind the worst environmental disaster in Brazil, the Fundão Dam failure.
The capacity of Chile's environmental impact assessment system (SEIA) to evaluate resident freshwater fishes and the potential impacts of water projects and aquaculture activities – two categories of projects that create direct threats to freshwater fishes – are assessed.
