Assessment of China's evaluation standard for green building : a sustainability perspective
(2013) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM01 20131LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Abstract
- China is facing multiple challenges of environmental degradation, resource scarcity, and rapid urbanization. The challenges along with people's needs to improve living condition force China to value the importance of developing green buildings. In 2006 the first national green building assessment tool -‐ Evaluation Standard for Green Building (GBS) was released and widely implemented soon after. At the same time, the notion of sustainability is increasingly discussed by green building researchers and practitioners globally. There is a trend of transformation from environmentally friendly or energy efficient building to sustainable building. However, studies on the sustainability performance of GBS are still absent. This paper strives to... (More)
- China is facing multiple challenges of environmental degradation, resource scarcity, and rapid urbanization. The challenges along with people's needs to improve living condition force China to value the importance of developing green buildings. In 2006 the first national green building assessment tool -‐ Evaluation Standard for Green Building (GBS) was released and widely implemented soon after. At the same time, the notion of sustainability is increasingly discussed by green building researchers and practitioners globally. There is a trend of transformation from environmentally friendly or energy efficient building to sustainable building. However, studies on the sustainability performance of GBS are still absent. This paper strives to make a comprehensive methodological assessment of GBS from sustainability perspective, to provide a picture of GBS's distance to the principles of sustainability, its advantages and limitations. The methodological framework of PICABUE developed by Mitchell et al. (1995) is applied as the guidance of analysis. Some suggestions are offered for the standard makers at the moment GBS is being revised for the second version. (Less)
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- author
- Yu, Yan LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MESM01 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- PICABUE, green building, evaluation standard for green building (GBS), sustainability indicators, sustainability science
- publication/series
- Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- report number
- 2013:028
- language
- English
- id
- 4075272
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- 2013-10-08 11:35:50
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@misc{4075272, abstract = {{China is facing multiple challenges of environmental degradation, resource scarcity, and rapid urbanization. The challenges along with people's needs to improve living condition force China to value the importance of developing green buildings. In 2006 the first national green building assessment tool -‐ Evaluation Standard for Green Building (GBS) was released and widely implemented soon after. At the same time, the notion of sustainability is increasingly discussed by green building researchers and practitioners globally. There is a trend of transformation from environmentally friendly or energy efficient building to sustainable building. However, studies on the sustainability performance of GBS are still absent. This paper strives to make a comprehensive methodological assessment of GBS from sustainability perspective, to provide a picture of GBS's distance to the principles of sustainability, its advantages and limitations. The methodological framework of PICABUE developed by Mitchell et al. (1995) is applied as the guidance of analysis. Some suggestions are offered for the standard makers at the moment GBS is being revised for the second version.}}, author = {{Yu, Yan}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, series = {{Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science}}, title = {{Assessment of China's evaluation standard for green building : a sustainability perspective}}, year = {{2013}}, }