Analysis on the new changes of American green building rating system LEED2009-NC

Author

Zhou, Tong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Archit., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

22-24 April 2011

Firstpage

6466

Lastpage

6470

Abstract

This paper made a comparison between LEED2009-NC and LEED2.2-NC from the perspective of system structure and credit weighting, and summarized the main differences between new and old versions of LEED-NC. The result shows high energy efficiency and low-carbon are the two emphasis of LEED2009-NC. The increasing weightings of sustainable site, energy and atmosphere and water efficiency are closely related to high energy efficiency and low-carbon. Meanwhile, to attract more projects into LEED-NC certification and fulfill the market transformation to sustainability, LEED2009-NC didn´t increase certification difficulty much more. Finally, the paper discussed the reference meaning to the Chinese green building rating system construction.

Keywords

certification; construction industry; design engineering; environmental factors; sustainable development; American green building rating system; Chinese green building rating system construction; LEED2.2-NC; LEED2009-NC; credit weighting; high energy efficiency; low-carbon; system structure; water efficiency; Architecture; Buildings; Certification; Energy efficiency; Green buildings; Lead; Presses; LEED2.2-NC; LEED2009-NC; comparison; high energy efficiency; low-carbon; weighting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Technology and Civil Engineering (ICETCE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lushan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0289-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETCE.2011.5776241

Filename

5776241