• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.58-65
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• 2014

This study aims to understand the environmental impact reduction of green buildings that are certified by Green standard for energy and environmental design(G-SEED). To ensure this end, this study assessed and compared the environmental impacts(global warning, ozone layer depletion, acidification, and eutrophication) of a G-SEED-certified elementary school building(green building) and an uncertified elementary school building(traditional building) using the life cycle assessment methodology. This study considered the environmental impacts from the material manufacturing, material transportation, on-site construction, and operation during 40 years. The comparison of the environmental impact intensity of two buildings showed that the green building generated much more environmental impacts than the traditional building. For example, the global warming potential of the green building was approximately 12.5% higher than of the traditional building since the global warming potential of the green building was 3.751 $t-CO_2eq./m^2$ while that of the traditional building was 3.282 $t-CO_2eq./m^2$. It signifies that the G-SEED doesn't guarantee the reduction of the environmental impacts in terms of four impact categories. Therefore, the G-SEED should be complemented and improved to achieve the environmental impact reduction.

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.64
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• pp.14-17
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• 2010

친환경 건축물은 자연친화적인 건물을 실현해 사용에너지를 최소화하고 탄소배출을 줄이는 것을 목표로 한다. 에너지사용을 먼저 줄인 후 그 다음 신재생에너지로 필요한 에너지를 충당해야 한다는 것. 때문에 친환경 건축 설계기법으로 최적향 선택과 에너지효율화를 높일 수 있는 외피시스템, 고성능 단열재, 고 단열 창호, 폐열회수환기시스템 등이 거론되고 있다. 친환경 건축의 바른 길을 위해 숙지해야 할 요소를 짚어보았다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.99-105
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• 2015

The building structure has an decisive influence on the environment as it takes over one third part in the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of whole world. Accordingly, every country makes the reduction of greenhouse gas emission compulsory pursuant to Kyoto Protocol of 1997, and Korea government makes an announcement for the improvement of building energy performance in 2014. In this study, the key technology of Energy Saving Environmental-Friendly Building is sorted into 3rd categories, and the analysis of patent trend for patent documents published in Korea, USA, Japan and Europe is carried out. The purpose of this study is to solve the problem of current technology that it cannot show the detailed situation of technique and development strategy of R&D, and to provide a systematic approach for R&D strategy and an exact technology development direction.

• Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.38-43
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• 2013

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.70-77
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• 2008

This study investigates the level of the construction student's familiarity and interest in sustainability, their attitude toward sustainability, and the factors for bringing student's attitude toward sustainability. To accomplish the main objectives, this study employes a survey instrument created and developed by the authors. This is a descriptive and correlation study using responses from construction students at the Building Construction department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Virginia. The results of descriptive statistics and multiple regression using SPSS version 16 present the following findings. Construction students perceive that they have a relatively high level of familiarity with sustainable construction and sustainability. Secondly, student's attitude toward sustainability is changed based on several factors such as sustainable construction courses, a professor who is interested in sustainability, their interest in the construction industry, university initiative, and the level of sustainability for student's learning facilities. Finally, the construction student's attitude toward sustainability can be improved by offering sustainable construction courses in construction programs, having professors who teach and research sustainability, and adopting sustainable initiatives at the university level such as campus recycling and various sustainable programs.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.129-135
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• 2011

Many countries have carried out various policies about sustainable building to protect the earth against the global warming and environmental pollution. Korea government has also executed the Green Building Certification System. In order to keep the performances of certificated buildings sustainable, the effective building maintenance is quite necessary. Meanwhile, the foreign green building certification systems have considered the building maintenance as one of the most important items to keep the building performance effective. However, Green Building Certification Criteria(GBCC) of Korea has not had the sufficient criteria for the maintenance of green building. Therefore, The purpose of this study is to find direction for the improvement of management categories of Korea Green Building Certification Criteria. For this aim, GBCC was compared with the foreign certification systems such as LEED, BREEAM and CASBEE.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.56-64
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• 2016

While many assessment systems for buildings and indoor environment have been created with increasing interest in sustainable development, assessments for sustainable landscaping and outdoor environments have received less attention. Recently, the Sustainable Site Initiatives(SITES) was developed in the USA in order to evaluate and certify sustainable landscape design projects. The purposes of this study are to analyze sustainable landscape strategies and to review the certification system through case studies of SITES certified projects. Three certified projects in Texas were selected and literature review, site visits and interview were conducted. The results indicated that various sustainable and practical strategies were applied including soil preservation, use of native plants and recycled materials, and water harvesting. Also, SITES has benefits to encourage an integrated design process, community participation, and environmental education for the public. This suggests that a certification system for landscaping and outdoor environments needs to be developed to ensure sustainable site development, which helps extend the roles of the landscape architecture profession in sustainable design.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.91-100
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• 2011

Green technologies of buildings are spreading for saving resource and energy consumption during life cycle of buildings. However, selection of optimized the technologies for applying projects is needed a lot of time and costs. Therefore prioritization is necessary to apply the technologies for buildings. An evaluation of economic value for the technologies is significant for prioritization of the technologies, however, the current evaluation system of economic value for technologies is not reflected the accurate features of the technologies. Green technologies have the objectives for reducing the emission of CO2 and saving the cost during the whole lifecycle of buildings. Thus the evaluation of economic feasibility for green technologies is needed to include the economic value from improving the environment. This paper developed the economic evaluation method integrated with LCC and LCA to accurately analyze the economic value for green technologies. Moreover, this paper drew the priority of the technologies by conducting case studies with the integrated method and analyzing the results with AHP. The conclusion of case studies, Green technologies is worth more if to include the economic value from improving the environment. Then in analysis of priority, Green intelligent component technologies were rated the highest. The conclusion of the study is able to utilize the supporting tool for making decision to select the optimized technologies for the projects and precedence study for developing future research of prioritization for green technologies. The future study for improving the developed method will supplement the various evaluation factors and apply the detailed weight to analyze the priority of green technologies.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.79-90
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• 2011

The KGBCC(Korean Green Building Certification Criteria), which is the assessment standard of green buildings, is not enough to reflect all the current demands of residents. Therefore, the comparative analysis between the certification score and the residents' satisfaction of a promotional green apartment, a awarded green apartment, and a certified green building apartment was carried out to derive improvements of the KGBCC. The residents of selected three apartments were surveyed through the assessment items of the KGBCC. According to the research, the certified green building apartment shows the highest certification score and residents' satisfaction overall, compared with other two apartments. Finally, the improvements of KGBCC were determined through the reason of the residents' dissatisfaction. The KGBCC that is improved by this study can be used for the new assessment standard of green buildings.

• The Magazine for Energy Service Companies
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• s.70
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• pp.40-43
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• 2011

이제 하나의 건축물을 짓는다는 것은 단순히 건물을 짓는다는 개념을 넘어 지구환경을 생각한다는 것을 의미하는 일이 되고 있다. 이러한 시대에 발맞춰 미국에서 시작된 녹색건물인증제도인 LEED가 국내에도 서서히 그 이름을 알리고 있다. 자연과 공존할 수 있는 생활환경에 대한 사람들의 관심이 커지는 시점에서 한국 LEED 연구소 브래드 박 소장은 친환경 건축에 대한 자신의 소신을 들려주었다. 앞으로 변화될 국내 친환경 건축 시장과 LEED의 상관관계에 대해서 브래드 박 소장의 얘기를 들어보기로 한다.