Sustainable and High Performance Building Strategies Research
Abstracts
Assessing Green Building Performance: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of 12 GSA Buildings - Case Study
Sponsored by: U.S. General Service Administration (2008)
This study compares measured whole building performance for 14 GSA buildings located in half of its national regions to industry standard performance of energy, water, maintenance and operations, waste, recycling, transportation, and occupant satisfaction metrics. Eight of the buildings are U.S. Green Building Council LEED certified, two are LEED registered, one used Green Building Challenge and h... More
Assessing Green Building Performance: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of 12 GSA Buildings - White Paper
Sponsored by: U.S. General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, Office of Applied Science Applied Research (2008)
To answer the question, "does sustainable design deliver?" GSAA evaluated 12 sustain-ably designed buildings in its national portfolio. The evaluation of these buildings was comprehensive—measuring environmental performance, financial metrics, and occupant satisfaction. No previous analysis has taken such a holistic view. The buildings studied all incorporated sustainable design criteria to ... More
Green Building Performance: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of 22 GSA Buildings - White Paper
Sponsored by: U.S. General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, Office of Applied Science Applied Research (2011)
Do "green" buildings deliver the performance they promise? to answer this question, the General Services Administration (GSA) selected 22 representative green buildings from its national portfolio, including 12 buildings whose performance was assessed initially in 2007. The evaluation was comprehensive, measuring environmental performance, financial metrics, and occupant satisfaction. Results were... More