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REVOLUTIONS OF CONSTRUCTION ORGANIZATIONS TOWARDS GREEN BUILDING PRJECTS

  • Po-Han Chen;Yuan-Yuan Li
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.558-565
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    • 2009
  • In recent years, the demand for green buildings is growing fast due to legislative and social pressures. Construction organizations, which play an important role in promoting building industry growth, are facing with challenges on how to adapt themselves to enhance sustainability of the buildings. In this paper, the green value chain and system frameworks, an extend application of Porter's value chain and system models, are introduced. Based on deep analysis of the green value chain and system frameworks, a revolution model for construction organizations towards green building is created. Management factors critical for a successful green building project, at the firm and project organization level, are extracted. Furthermore, external critical relationships are also identified. Fully understanding of these management factors and the model can help and enable practitioner to know what new capabilities should be deployed and developed in the long run for maximizing sustainability.

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Comparison of the Building Envelope Design Elements between Green Building Design Guidelines and Green Building Certification Criteria - Focus on public institution relocation projects - (녹색건축물 디자인가이드라인과 녹색건축 인증 비교를 통한 외피계획요소에 관한 연구 - 공공기관 지방이전 건축물을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, So-Young;Hwang, Sung-Pil;Oh, Joon-Gul
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2014
  • Due to rapid climate changing and the need for energy conservation, environment friendly initiatives have emerged, and regulations to support establishment of green structures in construction have been legislated and enacted. In this study, the supporting of green build method act for rapid climate change and energy conservation. Using green build method, protecting surrounding ecosystem and developing green building continuously, I suggest alternative for protection of the environment. Identifies Envelope Design Elements among various construction Green Building Design Guidelines. Green buildings that we extract the Green Building envelope design from Design Guideline, select the object building through the green buildings examples of public institution relocation projects. Since then analyzes the planned schematic design and Green Envelope Design Elements and Green Building Certification(G-SEED). So, that future directions for planning correlation of Green Building and Design Guidelines about Green Design Elements Can be presented.

A Basic Study of the Development of Indoor Environment Assessment Items for Eco-Friendly Indoor Environment of Hospital (의료시설의 친환경적 실내환경 조성을 위한 국내 친환경건축물 인증기준 개발에 관한 기초연구)

  • Lim, Tae-Sub
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.47-53
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    • 2007
  • As more serious environmental problems of buildings, many researchers have recognized the importance of preserving the environment where we live as well as a necessity of developing architecture with eco-environmentally. As a result, our country and some advanced countries have tried to solve these problems in that developed green building assessment tools for estimating environmental performance of buildings. Among many kinds of buildings, hospital which have been relation with human beings has been laking in basic raw materials of researching hospital's environment. Especially, there are few materials about indoor environment of hospital. So, the facilities of patients not only have to depend on the quality of natural environment but be also taken into account of patients. The purpose of this study is to prepare the basic data to develop the items of indoor environmental assessment for hospital to improve the quality of hospital's indoor environment. To come to a conclusion, we used a method of comparing domestic green building certification criteria, LEED v.2.2 and GBTool 2005. Then, we analyzed them for the case studies. Consequently, we could grasp basic data to assist in effecting domestic green building certification criteria for hopital. Furthermore, we have made a progressive research about setting grades of it.

Understanding College Students' Perception of Green Building Products

  • Jung, Younghan;Jeong, Myung Goo;Considine, Carol
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.503-507
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    • 2015
  • Sustainability continues to gain traction in all industry sectors as people become aware of the advantages of green products. The voluntary use of green products in buildings in the United States continues to grow due to long-term cost saving and the ecological benefit to nature. The voluntary installation of green products is associated with end-users' expectations and perceptions including cost saving, sustainable behavior, and social responsibility. Although involuntary use of green products has similar expectations and perceptions, the installation decision is not based on the goodwill from end-users. This paper surveys college students to capture current experience levels, expectations, and perceptions in regard to green products and/or sustainability and to understand their attitudes about involuntary use of a green product. The installation of low water pressure showerheads in a dormitory provides data to support perception, expectation, and future direction of adoption of green products in public buildings. This information may be used to facilitate sustainable behaviors among involuntary groups regarding to the adoption of green products. The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the college students' perception of a green product, particularly when the students are involuntarily exposed to the green products. As a secondary objective, the paper also attempts to address the college students' general understanding on sustainability and green products. The findings of this study could support the growing importance of sustainable behavior among higher education beyond social responsibility and provide a benchmark against which to improve future change while fostering sustainable behaviors over time among the public.

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Evaluating Performance of Energy Conservation Measures on Energy-Efficient Remodeling at Deteriorated High School Buildings (노후 고등학교 건물의 에너지효율화 리모델링을 위한 요소기술의 성능 평가)

  • Lhee, Sang Choon;Choi, Young Joon;Choi, Yool
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.97-102
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    • 2013
  • Many countries over the world have acknowledged the global warming problem by greenhouse gas emission and tried to solve the problem. The Korean government has also taken many actions such as The Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth and on Promoting Green Building in that architectural building section takes 1/4 of national greenhouse gas emission. Under the situation that buildings constructed 15 years ago when insulation standards were reinforced take about 74%, The Plan on Vitalizing Green Remodeling, finally established on July 2013, will induce energy-efficient remodeling of deteriorated buildings. Using the energy simulation by the Visual DOE 4.0 program, this paper proposed the ways of energy-efficient remodeling of deteriorated high school buildings by measuring energy saving performance of factors that were drawn from the previous study. The factors considered are insulation, window's SHGC, south louver, system efficiency, and indoor setting temperature. Among them, all factors except SHGC proved contribution to reducing energy use at deteriorated high school buildings, compared with the baseline energy consumption.

Experimental Study on Planning Soil Depth of Green Roof System using Light-Weight Greening Block (경량식생블럭을 이용한 옥상녹화 공법의 토심계획에 관한 실험적연구)

  • Oh, Jae-Hun;Ahn, Hye-Ryeon;Kim, Kyoung-Uk;Ahn, Young-Chull;Moon, Jong-Wook
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.105-110
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    • 2013
  • Green roof system is classified as intensive greening, extensive greening or mix of intensive-extensive greening. Recently, light-weigh green roof has been performed actively, because buildings have been considered loads, design and maintenance. This study was conducted to design soil depth for light-vegetation block with using bottom-ash. As a result, it was found that growth of plant had no direct effect on soil depth even it was less than 10cm. Soil depth having under 5cm could be integration of plant roots and vegetation blocks. It was also possible to grow organic vegetables through the experiment of planting. According to this experiment, as light-vegetation block with bottom-ash was used for planting, it makes design shallow soil depth. The results will help install green roof system conveniently not only new buildings but also used buildings.

Research on Health Performance Evaluation of Existing Buildings using WELL Building Standard - for Green Remodeling applied Buildings - (웰 빌딩 스탠다드를 활용한 기존 건축물의 건강성능평가 연구 - 그린리모델링 적용 건축물을 대상으로 -)

  • Lee, Du Hwan;Kim, Young Il;Kim, Jae Moon
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.165-173
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this research is to evaluate the health performance of existing buildings which completed green remodeling using the WELL Building Standard developed by Delos in the USA. The features and the level of improvement in health were examined and the results were as follows. As a result of comprehensive evaluation of the health performance of the target building, the health performance after green remodeling improvement was improved by 17.3% compared to before green remodeling. As a result of applying the alternatives for improving health performance, improvements were 22.9% by Alternative 1, 28.8% by Alternative 2, and 28.7% by Alternative 3. If the improvement ratio with respect to the construction cost were compared, Alternative 1 was the best followed by Alternative 2. Finally, the cost effectiveness of improving health performance against construction cost were best in the order of self-closing door installation, airtight seal, and pest inspections.

The Effect of the Green Space in Roadside and Building Height on the Mitigation of Concentration of Particulate Matters (가로녹지 및 건물 높이가 미세먼지 농도에 미치는 영향)

  • Hong, Suk-Hwan;Tian, Wanting;Ahn, Rosa
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.466-482
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    • 2020
  • This study used 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the ENVI-met program to investigate how particulate matters (PM) generated on roads disperse through adjacent urban neighborhoods according to the urban development pattern. An urban area centered on a six-lane road in the vicinity of Miryang City Hall in Gyeongnam Province was selected to simulate the effect of the green space and building height on the PM concentration. The ENVI-met model considered the presence of green space and different building heights (high/low) on both sides of the road to examine the dispersion of PM. The result showed that the area of high-rise buildings and green space had the lowest PM concentration dispersed to the adjacent area, followed by the area of high-rise buildings and no green space. In contrast, the PM concentration remained relatively high for low-rise buildings, regardless of the green space. The reason for the low PM concentration in the area with high-rise buildings was a strong building wind, which caused PM to disperse to the outside, lowering the PM concentration quickly. These results indicate that the PM can disperse faster, and the PM concentration remains low in the urban neighborhood. On the other hand, green space had no significant effect on reducing PM in the urban neighborhood. In particular, when there are low-rise buildings on both sides of the road, the green space has no effect on the PM concentration in the urban neighborhood. Since this study considered only the case of PM emitted from the road, future studies should investigate other factors to figure out the dispersion model of PM and conduct on-site experiments.

A Study on Glazing Ratio of Certified Green Building Apartment (국내 친환경 아파트의 채광창 면적비에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sang-Bum;Park, Jong-Hoon;Yang, Byoung-E
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2010
  • Buildings receive solar radiation through windows and the solar radiation helps to save heating energy in winter. Therefore the bigger the glazing ratio is, the larger the amount of solar radiation we can receive. In this study we analysed the glazing ratio of Certified Green Building Apartments. And we verified whether the glazing ratio reflects energy saving through accepting solar radiation with correlation analysis. For glazing ratio analysis, we selected 116 apartment buildings of 19 apartment complexes that certified in 2008-2009 and took pictures of outside windows of the buildings. After that, we analysed the building's glazing ratio with 4 azimuth and checked distinction of the glazing ratio between 6 coupled azimuths. And we analysed the correlation between importance order of azimuth for energy saving and the glazing ratio change with the azimuth. The analysis showed that the glazing ratio does not reflect energy saving through accepting solar radiation.

Analysis of the Passive Design Application Status for the Improvement of G-SEED (G-SEED 개선을 위한 패시브디자인 적용현황 분석)

  • Kim, Hye-Won;Tae, Choon-Seob;Kim, Jun-Tae
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2015
  • The proper use of the passive and active design elements are important for the realization of green buildings. The G-SEED (Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design) has been implemented in Korea to promote green building construction reflecting these design elements. In this paper, evaluation items of G-SEED which related to the passive design were selected. And improvement direction for the G-SEED was proposed through the analysis of the application status of the passive design elements for the G-SEED certified buildings. This results can be used for developing study on the future improvement of the assessment criteria of G-SEED.