Zimmermann, Regitze Kjaer, Ole Skjelmose, Kasper Guldager Jensen, Kristian Knorr Jensen, and Harpa Birgisdottir. "Categorizing Building Certification Systems According to the Definition of Sustainable Building". IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. February 24, 2019. https://doi.org/...
There are several sustainable – "green" – building certifications schemes and great variation in how they are structured, evaluated, and weight social, environmental and economic dimensions. For the definition of "sustainable building certification", this paper from 2019 gives the three dimensions equal weight. Active House, BREEAM, DGNB, Green Star, HQE, LEED, Living Building Challenge, Miljöbyggnad, Nordic Ecolabel and WELL were the certification schemes analyzed. Across the systems, the environmental dimension accounted for an average of 51% and economy 5.6%. Of the 10 systems, only DGNB certification gave equal weight to the social, environmental and economic dimensions in the definition of sustainability.
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