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By adopting sustainable construction, contractors would make the construction plan or sustainable site plan to minimize the environmental impact of the project. According to a study took place in Sri Lanka, [ 20 ] considerations of sustainability may influence the contractor to choose more sustainable, locally sourced products and materials ...
C&D Construction and demolition (e.g. C&D waste) CDG(CPL) Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road and Rail (Classification, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 1994; CEC Commission of the European Communities; CEMP Construction Environmental Management Plan; CEN Comite Europeen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization)
US EPA Kansas City Science & Technology Center. LEED Gold certified building. Green building certification systems are a set of rating systems and tools that are used to assess a building or a construction project's performance from a sustainability and environmental perspective. [1]
No matter how sustainable a building may have been in its design and construction, it can only remain so if it is operated responsibly and maintained properly. Ensuring operations and maintenance(O&M) personnel are part of the project's planning and development process will help retain the green criteria designed at the onset of the project. [ 63 ]
BREEAM New Construction is the BREEAM standard against which the sustainability of new, non-residential buildings in the UK is assessed. Developers and their project teams use the scheme at key stages in the design and procurement process to measure, evaluate, improve and reflect the performance of their buildings.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), founded in 1993, is a private 501(c)(3), membership-based non-profit organization that promotes sustainability in building design, construction, and operation.
GSAS addresses the sustainability impacts during the design, construction and operation stages of buildings and infrastructure projects. The framework addresses eight categories of macro and micro level aspects for a multidimensional focus on sustainability.
SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals; SECR - Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting framework (UK) SF 6 - Sulfur hexafluoride; SRCCL - Special Report on Climate Change and Land of the IPCC; SRES - Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the IPCC; SR15 - IPCC's Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C; SSP - Shared Socioeconomic Pathway