Environmental Performance of Green Building Code and Certification Systems

Peer Effects and Voluntary Green Building Certification

Empirical evidence is provided to show that peer effects have statistically significant and positive impacts on the diffusion of green building certificates. Application and approval records of green certificates by commercial buildings in NY and AZ are used. The challenge of self-selection is addressed by the usage of fixed effects and the challenge of reflection is addressed by the time lag d...

Managing high environmental performance? Applying life cycle approaches and environmental certification tools in the building and real estate sectors

'What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?' i Summary The building and real estate sectors are responsible for a significant portion of global society's overall environmental impacts. This thesis considers three actions that need to be applied in the sectors to mitigate these impacts. Firstly, all new buildings need to be constructed for very low operati...

ESTCP Cost and Performance Report EnvironmEntal SEcurity tEchnology cErtification Program

Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including s...

ESTCP Cost and Performance Report EnvironmEntal SEcurity tEchnology cErtification Program

ESTCP Cost and Performance Report EnvironmEntal SEcurity tEchnology cErtification Program