The document discusses various building environmental assessment tools (BEATs) such as LEED, BREEAM, CASBEE, and others that evaluate resource use, ecological impacts, and indoor environmental quality of buildings. It describes the aims of BEATs to predict, calculate, and measure a building's environmental impacts and communicate them to stakeholders. It provides details on LEED and its certification process, goals to promote sustainability, and use of certification labels.

1. Green building concept

2. Building Environmental Assessment
Tools (BEATs)
• Objectives are evaluation of resource use,
ecological loadings, and indoor environmental
quality.
• Some of the most recognized ones are BEATs
include BEES 4.0, BREEAM, CASBEE, Code for
Sustainable Homes, Green Star, LEED, SBTool,
and Minergie.

3. Aim
• To produce tools that predict, calculate,
estimate, and measure the impact of buildings
on natural systems and communicate it to
different stakeholders in a standardized way.

4. • LEED®-NC v3, Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design for New Construction.
• LEED-NC is market driven, Code for
Sustainable Homes has recently become a
building code.
• LEED was developed by the US Green Building
Council committees (USGBC) to promote,
define and measure “green buildings” and
influence the building industry

5. • “The intent is to promote healthful, durable,
affordable, and environmentally sound
practices in building design and construction.”

6. Principle of the hierarchical structure
of the Assessment Tool

8. several tool
set of categories has been chosen:
• Energy & Pollution;
• Material & Waste;
• Indoor Environment/Health and Wellbeing;
• Domestic Water;
• Site & Ecology;
• Management/Procedures;
• Else.

9. • LEED uses 4 labels: certified, silver, gold and
platinum, whereas CSH and EcoEffect use 1–6
stars, where six stars is the best.

10. Expectations of USGBC through LEED
• Reverse Contribution to Global Climate change.
• Enhance individual human health and well being.
• Protect and Restore water resources.
• Protect, enhance and restore biodiversity and
ecosystem services.
• Promote sustainable and regenerative material
resources cycles.
• Build a greener Economy.
• Enhance social equity, environmental justice, and
community quality of life.

11. LEED certification Process
• Begins with rating system selection and project
registration.
• Project team should prepare documentation for
all prerequisites.
• Then the team will be chosen for credits.
• When submitted for certification, project goes
through preliminary and final reviews.
• Preliminary review provides technical advise on
requirement for additional work for achievement.
• Final review contains final score and certification.
• If not satisfied appeal can be made for latter one.