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Strategies for LEED-NC-Certified Projects in Germany and Results of Their Life Cycle Assessment

Buildings (Basel), 2023-08, Vol.13 (8), p.1970 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Strategies for LEED-NC-Certified Projects in Germany and Results of Their Life Cycle Assessment
Author: Pushkar, Svetlana
Subjects: Alternative energy sources ; Analysis ; Certification ; certification strategy ; Chlorofluorocarbons ; Climate change ; Data collection ; Environmental assessment ; Environmental degradation ; Environmental impact ; Fossil fuels ; Germany ; Green buildings ; Green design ; Green development ; LEED-NC ; Life cycle analysis ; Life cycle assessment ; Life cycles ; Nonparametric statistics ; Office buildings ; Office space ; office space projects ; Renewable resources ; Statistical analysis ; Sustainable development ; Variance analysis ; VOCs ; Volatile organic compounds
Is Part Of: Buildings (Basel), 2023-08, Vol.13 (8), p.1970
Description: The aim of this study was to investigate strategies for the certification of environmentally friendly office buildings in Germany. A total of 39 LEED-NC gold-certified office space projects were ranked according to their “optimize energy performance” credit (EAc1) achievements from the energy and atmosphere (EA) category and divided into two groups: 13 projects (group 1) with the highest and 13 projects (group 2) with the lowest EAc1 achievements. Nonparametric statistics were used to evaluate the differences between groups 1 and 2. A two-stage nested analysis of variance test was used to evaluate the differences between the two groups in terms of their life cycle assessment (LCA). A comparison of the two groups showed that group 1 outperformed group 2 in the EA category (p < 0.0001). However, in the other LEED categories, the differences between the two groups were not significant (p ≥ 0.0761). As a result, group 1 outperformed group 2 in terms of overall LEED points (p = 0.0048). The LCA of EAc1 showed that group 1 enacted the lowest environmental damage when compared to group 2 (p = 0.0040). The environmental assessment of LEED-certified projects can help green building managers choose the most sustainable certification strategy.
Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2075-5309
EISSN: 2075-5309
DOI: 10.3390/buildings13081970
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