ASSESSING THE APPLICATION OF LEED REQUIREMENTS OF A HIGH-VOLUME PROJECT OWNER IN THE UNITED STATES

IF 0.7 4区艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE

Journal of Green Building Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.3992/jgb.18.2.43

Rebecca Moriarty Davis, R. Valdes-Vasquez, Brian H. Dunbar

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Abstract

Construction project owners worldwide require compliance with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) green building rating system as a means to meet sustainability goals. Despite its popularity, the LEED certification process can still be cumbersome for project teams without clear guidance. This study focuses on a school district in the United States committed to certifying its high volume of new schools. The analysis includes understanding the efficacy of the district’s LEED requirements by comparing them to the final LEED scorecards of 16 completed projects. The results indicate an incompatibility between the owner’s required LEED credit targets and the actual outcomes, confirming that simply requiring LEED certification is insufficient to reach specific sustainability goals. The significance of this study is the identification of four strategies that owners with a high volume of construction projects can use to successfully facilitate and streamline the LEED certification process: (a) develop a targeted LEED scorecard, (b) create LEED documentation templates, (c) integrate LEED into specifications, and (d) align design guidelines with LEED goals.

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评估美国某大型项目业主对leed要求的应用

世界各地的建筑项目业主都要求遵守能源与环境设计领导力(LEED®)绿色建筑评级体系，作为实现可持续发展目标的一种手段。尽管LEED很受欢迎，但如果没有明确的指导，项目团队的LEED认证过程仍然很繁琐。本研究的重点是美国的一个学区，该学区致力于认证其大量的新学校。分析包括通过将该地区的LEED要求与16个已完成项目的最终LEED记分卡进行比较，了解该地区LEED要求的有效性。结果表明，业主要求的LEED信用目标与实际结果之间不相容，证实了仅仅要求LEED认证不足以达到具体的可持续性目标。本研究的重要意义在于确定了四种策略，拥有大量建筑项目的业主可以使用这些策略来成功地促进和简化LEED认证过程:(a)开发有针对性的LEED记分卡，(b)创建LEED文档模板，(c)将LEED整合到规范中，以及(d)使设计指南与LEED目标保持一致。

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Journal of Green Building ARCHITECTURE-

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2.30

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7.10%

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期刊介绍： The purpose of the Journal of Green Building is to present the very best peer-reviewed research in green building design, construction, engineering, technological innovation, facilities management, building information modeling, and community and urban planning. The Research section of the Journal of Green Building publishes peer-reviewed articles in the fields of engineering, architecture, construction, construction management, building science, facilities management, landscape architecture, interior design, urban and community planning, and all disciplines related to the built environment. In addition, the Journal of Green Building offers the following sections: Industry Corner that offers applied articles of successfully completed sustainable buildings and landscapes; New Directions in Teaching and Research that offers guidance from teachers and researchers on incorporating innovative sustainable learning into the curriculum or the likely directions of future research; and Campus Sustainability that offers articles from programs dedicated to greening the university campus.