Impact of Environmental Assessment of Green Building Materials on Sustainable Rating System

Abstract:

As education and concern pertaining to environmental and sustainability issues like implications of resources destruction, decrease in bio-diversity as well as climate change multiply, so has the need for housing developments that lead to less damaging effects on the environment, whilst enabling living standard to be sustained. Builders, developers and material providers have addressed this demand by creating approaches and technologies that minimize energy, water and main material consumption, decrease greenhouse gas emissions and sustain or enhance surrounding ecological systems and services. Several administration and non-governmental institutions in addition have aimed to change the sustainability of the building industry by developing green rating systems that can be used to evaluate the environmental performance of new and existing building. This paper discusses material resources criteria and the impact as a sustainable rating tool.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 689)
• Pages: 398-402
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.689.398
• Online since: May 2013
• Authors: Usman Aminu Umar, Hassan Tukur, Mohd. Faris Khamidi, Adam Umar Alkali
• Keywords: Environmental Assessment, Green Building, Material, Sustainable Rating System

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