Green Building Design Standards in the Construction Industry

Green Building Design Standards When thinking about designing an environmentally-friendly building, there are a few standards that serve as a design guides that architects and engineers should follow. The following are standards commonly used in the design of sustainable buildings and building that want to achieve LEED certification. ASHRAE 90.1 The ASHRAE 90.1 standard is an energy standard...
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Green Building Design and Construction

Today’s building professionals are creating healthy and environmentally friendly buildings using sustainable design methods in the construction industry. In order to verify that a building has been designed and built using strategies targeted at reaching high standards of human and environmental health, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) created a rating system called LEED (Leadership...
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