Environmental and health related criteria for buildings - ANEC

IBO - Environmental and Health related Criteria for Buildings
green building concerns, but the scope of the system can be modified to be as narrow or as
broad as desired, ranging from 125 criteria to half a dozen.
The main topics are the following:
A) Site Selection, Project Planning and Development
B) Energy and Resource Consumption
C) Environmental Loadings
D) Indoor Environmental Quality
E) Service Quality
F) Social and Economic Aspects
G) Cultural and Perceptual Aspects
These main topics comprise 29 categories sub-divided into 125 indicators (depending on the
scope of assessment, see 13.5 Appendix SBTool 07 for new apartments).
The weighting factors may vary depending on regional specifics of a country. The range of
assessment goes from 0 to 5
- 0 - Acceptable Practice
- 3 - Good Practice
- 5 - Best Practice
Detailed information is available on http://www.iisbe.org/iisbe/sbc2k8/sbc2k8-dwn.htm
The system allows third parties to establish parameter weights that reflect the varying
importance of issues in the region, and to establish relevant benchmarks by occupancy type,
in local languages. Thus, many rating systems can be developed in different regions that
look quite different, but share a common methodology and set of terms. The main
advantage, however, is that a SBTool version developed with local knowledge is likely to be
much more relevant to local needs and values than other systems.
The system handles large projects or single buildings, residential or commercial, new and
existing construction, or a mix of the two.
4.7. LEnSE (Label for Environmental, Social and Economic Buildings)
LEnSE (abbreviation for Methodology Development towards a Label for Environmental,
Social and Economic Buildings) was a project co-funded by the European Commission within
the Sixth Framework Programme and coordinated by BBRI - Belgian Building Research
Institute. It was carried out 2006/2007 with the main target to develop a building assessment
system for the European market which is applicable in different countries taking into account
regional specifications. It was the first system considering the three pillars of sustainability:
economic, environmental and social.
The LEnSE methodology encompasses a set of 57 sustainability issues, grouped into 11
categories in the 3 pillars of sustainable construction. Following European wide testing of the
method on a series of case study buildings, a number of issues were consolidated. This has
led to a final set of 30 developed issues (see 13.4 Appendix: LEnSE )
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