WELL Building Standard is the leading certification tool to assess health and wellbeing in building. Learn everything you need to know about WELL, how it works, building materials selection, market share, and much more.
BREEAM is one of world’s leading rating systems to measure sustainability and environmental performance of new and existing buildings. This guide tells you everything you need to know about BREEAM, how it works, market share, rating levels and much more.
Are you looking for a brief introduction of the most diffused Green Building Rating Systems around the world, suchas LEED, BREEAM, WELL, Estidama and other?
Estidama, which is the Arabic word for ‘sustainability’, is the green building rating system developed by the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC).
LEED® – Leader in Energy & Environmental Design – is the world’s most widely used green building certification program. Developed by the US Green Building Council, LEED® is a voluntary rating system.
Long term sustainability appraisals, which take into account a range of alternative schemes and associated building operational carbon and life cycle performance, are becoming a ‘must have’ to win planning permissions.
The dissemination of Smart Materials is rapidly growing and representing an important evolution in building design.
Recent publications focused on the interdisciplinarity between neuroscience and architecture stimulate a new integrative design approach which can conceive regenerative spaces
Solmaz Esmailzadeh, lighting designer based in Arup’s Amsterdam office with a background in architectural lighting design and building engineering, explains what we can learn from the Romans about daylighting.
Naturally ventilated buildings are comfortable for the vast majority of the time and can produce a healthy environment with very low energy use
