Sustainable construction : green building design and delivery / Charles J. Kibert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview -- Part I. Green building foundations : -- Background -- Ecological design -- Part II. Assessing high-performance green buildings : -- Green building assessment -- The US Green Building Council LEED building rating system -- The Green Globes building assessment system -- Part. III. Green building design -- The green building design process -- The sustainable site and landscape -- Low-energy building strategies -- Built environment hydrologic cycle -- Closing materials loops -- Built environment carbon footprint -- Indoor environmental quality -- Part IV. Green building implementation : -- Construction operations and commissioning -- Green building economics -- Resilience in the context of sustainable construction -- The cutting edge of sustainable construction -- Appendix A. Green Globes for New Construction Based on ANSI/Gbapp01-2019 -- Appendix B. WELL Building Standard® Features Matrix and Fitwel Building Standard® Features Matrix -- Appendix C. The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) v2 Rating System for Sustainable Land Design and Development -- Appendix D. Resilient Design Strategies at Building Scale -- Appendix E. Abbreviations and Acronyms.

"The rapidly evolving and exponentially growing green building movement is arguably the most successful environmental movement in the United States today. Sustainable building has proven to yield substantial environmental and economic advantages. Green buildings are designed, built, and operated at a high level of energy and water efficiency, appropriate use of land and landscaping, use environmentally friendly materials, with special attention to life cycle. According to the World Green Building Trends 2018 SmartMarket Report by Dodge Data and Analytics in partnership with USGBC, a survey of over 2,000 participants from 87 countries, shows that global green building activity continues its ascent with almost half of total respondents expecting to build more than 60% of their projects as green buildings by 2021. More than half of respondents believe that rating systems such as LEED provide rigorous third-party verification that ensures buildings operate sustainably. The top triggers globally for green building activity are client demand, environmental regulation and occupant health"-- Provided by publisher.