Development of a Green Building Materials Integrated Platform Based on Materials and Resources in G-SEED in South Koreaopen access
- Authors
- Wang, Seongjo; Tae, Sungho; Kim, Rakhyun
- Issue Date
- Dec-2019
- Publisher
- MDPI Open Access Publishing
- Keywords
- G-SEED; materials and resources; green building materials; database; platform
- Citation
- Sustainability, v.11, no.23, pp.1 - 19
- Indexed
- SCIE
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SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Sustainability
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 23
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 19
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/188124
- DOI
- 10.3390/su11236532
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Abstract
- Various eco-friendly materials are used in the construction industry. South Korea employs the Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design (G-SEED), a green building certification system, in which materials account for 11% of the evaluation criteria. However, data for each eco-friendly material are managed individually by different institutions, causing inefficiency, increased costs, and potentially greater environmental impacts associated with material and resource selection. Hence, this study develops a green building materials integrated platform (GIP) that collates information on eco-friendly materials across different industries in South Korea, to support the G-SEED evaluations. Guidelines and standards related to each evaluation item were analyzed and used to compile a green building materials database. The database includes 12,636 data points representing product prices and environmental impact data. This database was used to develop the four-level Excel-based GIP. Case studies were conducted on actual G-SEED buildings to analyze the economic efficiency and environmental performance achieved by using alternative materials to those recommended by the GIP. Case 1 exhibits improvements in economic efficiency and environmental performance of 17% and 10%, respectively, whereas Case 2 exhibits improvements of 8% and 21%, respectively. Thus, both case studies boast superior combinations of green building materials compared to existing alternatives.
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