The document discusses sustainability benchmarks for buildings. It defines sustainability benchmarks as a way to systematically evaluate sustainability performance. It provides examples of entities that can be benchmarked, like sustainability standards and company policies. The objectives of benchmarks are outlined, such as aiding sustainable building design and evaluating existing buildings. Types of benchmarking tools are categorized, including those focusing on energy, environmental impacts, and social/economic/ecological aspects. Specific benchmarking systems like GRIHA, LEED, and their criteria are described. Maintaining benchmarks through practices like waste management and green procurement is also discussed.
The document discusses sustainability benchmarks for buildings. It defines sustainability benchmarks as a way to systematically evaluate sustainability performance. It provides examples of entities that can be benchmarked, like sustainability standards and company policies. The objectives of benchmarks are outlined, such as aiding sustainable building design and evaluating existing buildings. Types of benchmarking tools are categorized, including those focusing on energy, environmental impacts, and social/economic/ecological aspects. Specific benchmarking systems like GRIHA, LEED, and their criteria are described. Maintaining benchmarks through practices like waste management and green procurement is also discussed.
The document discusses sustainability benchmarks for buildings. It defines sustainability benchmarks as a way to systematically evaluate sustainability performance. It provides examples of entities that can be benchmarked, like sustainability standards and company policies. The objectives of benchmarks are outlined, such as aiding sustainable building design and evaluating existing buildings. Types of benchmarking tools are categorized, including those focusing on energy, environmental impacts, and social/economic/ecological aspects. Specific benchmarking systems like GRIHA, LEED, and their criteria are described. Maintaining benchmarks through practices like waste management and green procurement is also discussed.
The document discusses sustainability benchmarks for buildings. It defines sustainability benchmarks as a way to systematically evaluate sustainability performance. It provides examples of entities that can be benchmarked, like sustainability standards and company policies. The objectives of benchmarks are outlined, such as aiding sustainable building design and evaluating existing buildings. Types of benchmarking tools are categorized, including those focusing on energy, environmental impacts, and social/economic/ecological aspects. Specific benchmarking systems like GRIHA, LEED, and their criteria are described. Maintaining benchmarks through practices like waste management and green procurement is also discussed.
Submitted by: Priya nayak Sec-b,9th sem 1632781044 SUSTAINABILITY BENCHMARKS :
• Sustainability benchmarks are a way of systematically evaluating the sustainability performance of voluntary standards, certifications, companies or other entities that aim to implement sustainability measures or create positive impacts.
• The policies, commitments and performance of companies in the supply chain.
• Using a set of criteria or reference points, a benchmarking process provides its users with comparable information about the benchmarked entities. The results of a benchmark allows its users to recognize, apply or support the benchmarked entities, for example by recognizing a sustainability standard. Scope A large variety of entities can be benchmarked. The two most common approaches for benchmarking sustainability are:
• Sustainability standards, certifications or similar initiatives or programmes that define sustainable production practices. For example, a company or government procurer that sources coffee beans can benchmark different coffee standards and certifications to decide which ones to include in its policies and contracts.
• The policies, commitments and performance of companies in the supply chain. For example, an NGO can compare how well big brands are realizing their sustainability commitments. OBJECTIVES : • To aid the design of sustainable buildings. • To help evaluate the sustainability of existing buildings.
OBJECTIVE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND DESIGNERS
• To take more informed decisions about siting, facilities, building techniques, materials, design options, affordability, social inclusion and other considerations.
• The second objective gathers and quantifies actual information about the various impacts of a building. Several sustainability indicators are measured, weighted and evaluated, providing an overview of a selective—and by definition incomplete—list of local, regional and global impacts. OBJECTIVES FOR INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL • On an institutional level, benchmarking and assessment of buildings is used to verify compliance with national and international regulations.
• It can also play a role in the planning process by strengthening the position of planning control officers to refuse or amend developments on the grounds of sustainability concerns.
OBJECTIVES FOR EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
• For concretizing sustainability with design and planning students. Assessment tools can help make the effects of particular design decisions visible, thus enabling students to form a more thorough and systematic understanding of the complexity of sustainability in the built environment. CATEGORISATION OF BUILDING SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AND BENCHMARKING TOOLS Hastings and Wall (2007) recommend the following “broad brushstroke” categorization of building sustainability assessment and benchmarking tools: • Cumulative energy demand (CED) systems, which focus on energy consumption; Life cycle assessment (LCA) systems, which focus on environmental aspects;
• Total quality assessment (TQA) systems, which evaluate ecological, economic and social aspects.
LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT • Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology which is an integral component of many of the schemes presented in this report.
• It is a standardized way of assessing the environmental impact of a product or assembly of products across their life- cycle, from raw material extraction, processing, transport, use to end-oflife disposal or re-use.
• LCA has established itself as a globally accepted standard for the evaluation of environmental impacts.
The LCA methodology has been clearly outlined through standards ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006. It consists of four steps (ISO, 2006): • Goal and scope definition; • Life-cycle inventory (LCI) analysis; • Life-cycle impact assessment (LCIA) • Life-cycle interpretation. • LCA results can then be used to inform so-called environmental product declarations (EPDs) which are the most common form of eco-labels in the construction sector and are governed by product category rules (PCRs) for specific types of construction products to harmonize results and increase comparability CHALLENGES IN LCA • Include data intensiveness, variation in system boundaries and possible lack of adherence to the requirements of international standards.
• The perceived complexity of LCA can often seem a daunting barrier for architects, engineers, businesses and public sector bodies.
CUMULATIVE ENERGY DEMAND (CED)
• The Cumulative Energy Demand (CED) of a product represents the direct and indirect energy use throughout the life cycle, including the energy consumed during the extraction, manufacturing, and disposal of the raw and auxiliary materials . Different concepts for determining the primary energy requirement exist.
TOTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT (TQA)
• Quality System Evaluation - Provides an extensive review of the quality of a factory's existing system management, implementation of standards, procurements and current manufacturing procedures. GRIHA • GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment): GRIHA is jointly developed by TERI and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India. It is India’s own rating system. It consists of 34 criteria divided in four sections namely site selection and site planning, Conservation and efficient utilization of resources, Building operation and maintenance, and Innovation. GRIHA has a three tier process for rating any building. BENCHMARK OF GRIHA BUILDING Maintenance • Ensure that maintenance and housekeeping protocols are maintained and followed for electrical, HVAC, plumbing systems, and civilrepair work.
• Ensure the following:
In case of conditioned spaces all HVAC equipment are CFC-free and all insulation used in buildings should be CFC- and HCFCfree OR phase-out plan for HCFC/CFC using equipment.
Firefighting equipment are Halon-free
Green Procurement • Maintain and follow a policy of purchasing environment-friendly cleaning and pest control products for housekeeping materials with low ODP in building interiors • Maintain and follow a policy of purchasing appliances with at least 3-star BEE rating for all appliances under the scheme of the BEE Star Rating program. Waste Management • Provide infrastructure (multicoloured dustbins/ different garbage chutes) to building occupants to ensure segregation of waste at source. • Provide dedicated, segregated and hygienic storage spaces in the project site to store different wastes before treatment /recycling. • Provide contractual tie-ups with waste recyclers for safe recycling for recyclable wastes, like metal, paper, plastic, glass, e-waste, etc. • Implement strategies to treat all organic (kitchen and landscape) waste on-site and to convert it into a resource (manure, biogas, etc.) and reuse. Low-Impact Design Strategies Demonstrate reduction in environmental impact by adoption of various passive, active, and lowimpact site planning strategies PASSIVE DESING STRATEGIES LEED • LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.
• Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.
• LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential. It works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, and significant retrofit. And LEED for Neighborhood Development extends the benefits of LEED beyond the building footprint into the neighborhood it serves. BENCHMARK OF LEED BUILDING LEED: Establishes Important Benchmark for Smarter, Greener Construction There was a time when the term ‘LEED’ – short for ‘Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’ – was reserved almost solely for construction-related manuals and trade publications. Not so anymore. Take the example of a February 2009 Toronto Star headline, LEED-ing the way, for a story about Canada’s first residential development built entirely to LEED Platinum specifications. Sustainable Actions 1) Bring your own mug Principles of Sustainable Design in leed 2) Think before you print • Low-impact materials: choose non-toxic, sustainability produced or recycled materials 3) Turn off the lights which require little energy to process. 4) Use LED lightbulbs 5) Reduce, reuse, recycle • Energy efficiency: use manufacturing processes and produce products which require 6) Unplug your power cords less energy 7) Power down computers 8) Take shorter showers • Quality and durability: longer-lasting and better-functioning products will have to be 9) Eat less meat replaced less frequently, reducing the impacts of producing replacements. 10) Wash clothes in cold water • Design for reuse and recycling: "Products, processes, and systems should be designed for performance in a commercial 'afterlife'." THANK YOU
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