Simply GREEN
A quick guide to energy and environmental assessment certifications of buildings
Authors: Daniel Olsson, Catrin Heincke and Conny Nilsson
Publisher: Swegon Air Academy
Price: € 10
Language: English
Summary
A quick guide to the international environmental classification schemes, written in an intelligible way. Target groups are real estate owners and all persons who want to know more about the building certification systems.
In total, the book describes thirteen certification systems of which four are only covered very briefly. The authors believe that this book will be used primarily for orientation purposes and as a basis for helping to decide which system to use.
Contents
This book Simply GREEN presents an overview of all main global and some national environmental and energy assessment systems. In words of Professor Emeritus Brian Edwards: “In this publication I am struck by the way a complex field is reduced to simple language and straightforward principles and facts. Too often building certification is mired by excessive technical description and construction jargon. In the spirit of knowledge sharing and technological exchange, Swegon Air Academy has served Europe’s construction industry well by funding this simple GREEN guide to environmental and energy certification.”
In addition, this book discusses six environmental and three purely energy-based certification systems along with fourth briefly discussed certification systems:
- the British BREEAM Assessment Method
- the US LEED Rating System
- the German DGNB Certification System
- the Australian Green Star Rating System
- the Swedish Miljöbyggnad system
- the French HQE system
- the European Green Building Programme
- the Swiss Minergie Building Standard
- the German Passive House (Passivhaus) Standard
- the Japanese CASBEE assessment system
- the Indian IGBC rating system
- the US ENERGY STAR program
- and the French Effinergie system
Foreword for the book, sample chapters free for download and interesting articles about the book
Quotation in Green Lease: Launchpad for Green Techs and Energy Efficiency. Energy efficient and healthy buildings, report no5 from REHVA Workshops at CLIMA 2013 by Frank Hovorka, V.N. Tiet and Maija Virta
Article by Daniel Olsson on Multiple choice in environmental certification systems, also published in Journal CIBSE October 2013
German Passive House (Passivhus) Standard in French language (November 7, 2013)
Article by Daniel Olsson on Wide variations in how parameters are regarded in environmental certification systems, published in Journal REHVA May 2013
Another Presentation (May 20, 2013) by Petra Vladykova on Simply GREEN – Certification in a nutshell! Presentation for CONFERENCE on Chalmers Energy 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden
Presentation (May 15, 2013) by Daniel Olsson on Overview of classification systems (in Swedish) for www.svenskenergi.se
Chapters for download (January 31, 2013):
Foreword by Brian Edwards (Chapter of Simply GREEN)
US LEED Rating System (Chapter from Simply GREEN)
German Passive House (Passivhaus) Standard (Chapter from Simply GREEN)
Swedish Miljöbyggnad system (Chapter from Simply GREEN)
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