A Comparison on Two Certification Systems: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) And Building Environmental Assessment Method (BEAM) On Green Building in Hong Kong
There are totally 53,432 buildings in Hong Kong,while 25%are public sector and 75%are private sectors,1.5%of buildings have accredited or registered to BEAM plus certification system and 0.34%have accredited or registered to LEED certification system.And sharp increase of BEAM plus and LEED newly registered projects were record in 2010 and 2013 respectively pointed out the increased concern on green building in the recent years.Variety of research paper were focusing on the credits category and usefulness of LEED building,however there was a research gap showing the usefulness of the BEAM plus system.Therefore,in order to investigate the usefulness of two system,the differences between BEAM plus and LEED systems in the aspect of Water Management,Materials and Indoor Environmental Quality in this dissertation.The research findings based on the difference between two systems indicated the BEAM plus system was more suitable to Hong Kong which because of the BEAM plus has always subjected to adjustment immediately upon to any changes of the regulation of Hong Kong such as Water Quality Objectives due to the LEAD water incident.And the major problem of the government policy was the extra granting of GFA is going to further tightening the land supply in Hong Kong in the future.Therefore,recommendation on reduction of GFA and alternative incentives were presented for the government is also discussed in this paper.
green building BEAM Plus LEED
Ophelia CHU Ka-wai Richard CHEUNG Yun-hing
City University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong SAR
国际会议
2017世界可持续建筑环境大会(the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference)
香港
英文
1022-1030
2017-06-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）