Cover	1
	Title Page	5
	Copyright Page	6
	Contents	9
	Preface	17
	Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview	19
	The Shifting Landscape of Green Buildings	20
	The Roots of Sustainable Construction	23
	The Vocabulary of Sustainable Development and Construction	28
	Rationale for High-Performance Buildings	32
	State and Local Green Building Initiatives	33
	Green Building Progress and Obstacles	35
	Trends in High-Performance Green Building	36
	Book Organization	42
	BREEAM Case Study: Bloomberg European Headquarters, London	43
	Summary and Conclusions	45
	Notes	46
	References	47
	Part I Green Building Foundations	49
	Chapter 2 Background	53
	The Driving Forces for Sustainable Construction	55
	Ethics and Sustainability	58
	Basic Concepts and Vocabulary	66
	Major Environmental and Resource Concerns	75
	The Green Building Movement	80
	Case Study: OWP 11, Stuttgart, Germany	88
	Summary and Conclusions	91
	Notes	92
	References	94
	Chapter 3 Ecological Design	97
	Design Versus Ecological Design	99
	Contemporary Ecological Design	107
	Key Green Building Publications: Early 1990s	108
	Key Thinking About Ecological Design	111
	Evolving the Concept of Ecological Design	115
	Thermodynamics: Limits on Recycling and the Dissipation of Materials	125
	Case Study: Kroon Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut	128
	Synthesis	131
	Summary and Conclusions	132
	Notes	132
	References	132
	Part II Assessing High-Performance Green Buildings	135
	Chapter 4 Green Building Assessment	137
	Purpose of Green Building Assessment Systems	137
	Major Green Building Assessment Systems Used in the US	141
	International Building Assessment Systems	145
	BREEAM Case Study: Bloomberg European Headquarters, London	147
	Summary and Conclusions	160
	Notes	160
	References	161
	Chapter 5 The US Green Building Council LEED Building Rating System	163
	Brief History of Leed	164
	Structure of the Leed Suite of Building Rating Systems	165
	Leed Credentials	167
	Leed v4.1 Structure and Process	168
	Green Building Certification Institute Relationship to the Usgbc and Leed	170
	Leed Certification Process	170
	Leed Building Design and Construction Rating System	173
	Regional Priority	191
	Case Study: Stephan C. O’Connell Center at UF, Gainesville, Florida	192
	Summary and Conclusions	195
	Chapter 6 The Green Globes Building Assessment System	197
	Green Globes Building Rating Tools	198
	Structure of Green Globes for New Construction	200
	Section 1: Project Management (100 Points)	201
	Section 2: Site (150 Points)	202
	Section 3: Energy (260 Points)	202
	Section 4: Water (190 Points)	202
	Section 5: Materials (150 Points)	203
	Section 6: Indoor Environment (150 Points)	203
	Green Globes Assessment and Certification Process	203
	Green Globes Professional Credentials	205
	Case Study: Health Sciences Building, St. Johns River State College, St. Augustine, Florida	206
	Summary and Conclusions	212
	Part III Green Building Design	213
	Chapter 7 The Green Building Design Process	215
	Conventional Versus Green Building Delivery Systems	215
	High-Performance Green Building Delivery System	218
	Executing the Green Building Project	219
	Owner Issues in High-Performance Green Building Projects	220
	Setting Priorities and Making Other Key Initial Decisions	221
	Selecting the Green Building Team	222
	Role of the Leed Accredited Professional or Green Globes Professional in the Process	222
	Integrated Design Process	223
	Role of the Charrette in the Design Process	228
	Green Building Documentation Requirements	230
	Leed Documentation	230
	Green Globes Documentation	232
	Case Study: Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany	232
	Summary and Conclusions	236
	Notes	237
	Chapter 8 The Sustainable Site and Landscape	239
	Land and Landscape Approaches for Green Buildings	240
	Land Use Issues	241
	Sustainable Landscapes	247
	Green, or Living, Roofs	251
	Vertical Landscaping	253
	Enhancing Ecosystems	253
	Stormwater Management	254
	Low-Impact Development	255
	Heat Island Mitigation	259
	Light Trespass and Pollution Reduction	261
	Assessment of Sustainable Sites: The Sustainable Sites Initiative	262
	Case Study: lowa Utilities Board/Consumer Advocate Office Building	263
	Summary and Conclusions	268
	Notes	269
	References	269
	Chapter 9 Building Energy Efficiency Strategies	271
	Building Energy Issues	272
	High-Performance Building Energy Design Strategies	276
	HVAC Systems	297
	Water-Heating Systems	302
	Electrical Power System Components	304
	Innovative Energy Optimization Strategies	309
	Smart Buildings and Energy Management Systems (EMS)	318
	Ozone-Depleting Chemicals in HVAC Systems	318
	Case Study: The Pertamina Energy Tower: A Primer on Sustainable Skyscraper Design, Jakarta	319
	Notes	327
	References	328
	Chapter 10 Built Environment Hydrologic Cycle	331
	Global Water Resource Depletion	332
	Hydrologic Cycle Terminology	336
	Benefits of Water Efficiency	338
	High-Performance Building Hydrologic Strategy	338
	Building Plumbing Fixtures and Controls	342
	Nonpotable Water Sources	346
	Wastewater Strategies	351
	Baseline Water Model Example	355
	Use of Low-Flow Fixture Strategy	356
	Use of Alternative Water Sources Strategy	357
	Case Study: Lott Clean Water Alliance, Olympia, Washington	366
	Summary and Conclusions	370
	Notes	370
	References	371
	Chapter 11 Closing Materials Loops	373
	The Challenges of Materials and Product Selection	375
	Issues in Green Building Materials and Product Selection	376
	Selecting Building Materials and Products with a Focus on a Closed-Loop Materials System	383
	Life-Cycle Assessment	386
	Materials and Product Certification	393
	Key and Emerging Construction Materials and Products	393
	Design for Deconstruction and Disassembly	407
	Case Study: Project XX Office Building, Delft, Netherlands	410
	Summary and Conclusions	413
	Notes	413
	References	414
	Chapter 12 Built Environment Carbon Footprint	417
	Human Impact on the Biogeochemical Carbon Cycle	418
	Climate Change and the Carbon Cycle	421
	Climate Change Mitigation	425
	Defining the Carbon Footprint of the Built Environment	429
	Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Built Environment	436
	Carbon Neutrality and its Applicability to Buildings	437
	Focusing on Mitigating Project Climate Change Impacts	439
	Carbon Neutrality Case Study: The Hong Kong Zero Carbon Building	440
	Carbon Neutrality Case Study: Glaxosmithkline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry, Nottingham, UK	441
	Carbon Footprint Case Study: Rinker Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville	446
	Notes	450
	References	450
	Chapter 13 Indoor Environmental Quality	453
	Indoor Environmental Quality: The Issues	453
	Integrated IEQ Design	463
	Addressing the Main Components of Integrated Design	467
	HVAC Systems and IEQ	483
	Emissions from Building Materials	486
	The WELL and Fitwel Building Standards	492
	Summary and Conclusions	493
	Notes	494
	References	494
	Part IV Green Building Implementation	497
	Chapter 14 Construction Operations and Commissioning	499
	Site Protection Planning	499
	Managing Indoor Air Quality during Construction	504
	Construction Materials Management	507
	Construction and Demolition Waste Management	510
	Commissioning	513
	Summary and Conclusions	519
	Note	519
	References	519
	Chapter 15 Green Building Economics	521
	General Approach	522
	The Business Case for High-Performance Green Buildings	525
	Economics of Green Building	527
	Quantifying Green Building Benefits	528
	Managing First Costs	540
	Tunneling through the Cost Barrier	543
	Summary and Conclusions	545
	Notes	545
	References	546
	Chapter 16 Resilience in the Context of Sustainable Construction	547
	Resilience Concepts and Scope	548
	Codes and Standards for Built Environment Resilience	550
	Designing Resilient Buildings	553
	Green Building Assessment and Resilience	554
	Community Resilience	557
	Resilient Community Case Study: Boston	558
	Resilience Building Case Studies: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, and the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building	560
	References	562
	Chapter 17 The Cutting Edge of Sustainable Construction	565
	Articulating Performance Goals for High-Performance Green Buildings	566
	The Challenges	566
	Revamping Ecological Design	574
	Today’s Cutting Edges	577
	Case Study of a Cutting-Edge Design: The FederalBuilding, San Francisco	579
	Case Studies of Green Skyscrapers	584
	Summary and Conclusions	596
	Notes	596
	References	597
	Appendix A Green Globes for New Construction Based on ANSI/Gbapp01-2019	599
	Section 1: Project Management (100 Points)	599
	Section 2: Site (150 Points)	600
	Section 3: Energy (260 Points)	601
	Section 4: Water (190 Points)	602
	Section 5: Materials (150 Points)	604
	Section 6: Indoor Environment (150 Points)	605
	Appendix B WELL Building Standard® Features Matrix and Fitwel Building Standard® Features Matrix	607
	WELL Building Standard® Features Matrix	607
	Fitwel Building Standard® Features Matrix	610
	Appendix C The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) v2 Rating System for Sustainable Land Design and Development	613
	Summary of Sites Categories, Prerequisites, Credits, and Points	614
	Appendix D Resilient Design Strategies at Building Scale	617
	Appendix E Abbreviations and Acronyms	619
	Glossary	625
	Index	639
	EULA	653