Due to the recent investigations, buildings consume a considerable amount of the electricity, drinking water, global final energy use and as a result are responsible for one third of the global carbon emissions. Therefore, building sector has a key role to reach global energy targets. In this sight, this study draws attention to the sustainable energy performances of green buildings (GBs) and aims towards the GBs concept which includes renewable sources in the construction and lifetime utilization.

Chapter Contents:

• 2.1 Introduction to residential green buildings
• 2.2 Certification systems for sustainability ratings of residential green buildings
• 2.2.1 Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method
• 2.2.2 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system
• 2.2.3 ITACA system
• 2.2.4 Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency
• 2.3 Case studies related to certification systems and their comparison
• 2.4 Green buildings incentives
• 2.4.1 External incentives
• 2.4.1.1 Financial incentives
• 2.4.1.2 Non-financial incentives
• 2.4.2 Internal incentives
• 2.4.2.1 Human well-being-related incentives
• 2.4.2.2 Market-demand-related incentives
• 2.4.2.3 Human self-motivation sourced incentives
• 2.4.3 Concluding remarks
• 2.5 Energy demand modelling for residential green buildings
• 2.5.1 Classification of modelling approaches
• 2.5.1.1 Physical approaches
• 2.5.1.2 Statistical approaches
• 2.5.1.3 Hybrid methods
• 2.5.2 Case study about building energy-consumption determination
• 2.6 Clean energy generation in residential green buildings
• 2.6.1 Evaluation of building towards clean energy generation
• 2.6.2 Classification of clean energy generation systems
• 2.6.2.1 Active systems
• 2.6.2.2 Passive systems
• 2.7 Conclusion
• References

Inspec keywords: life cycle costing; renewable energy sources; sustainable development; construction industry; buildings (structures); energy consumption; energy conservation; certification

Other keywords: global carbon emissions; certification systems; building lifetime; residential green buildings; building sector; global energy targets; clean energy generation; sustainable energy performances; construction; green buildings; sustainability ratings; energy demand

Subjects: Energy resources and fuels; Energy resources; Building structures; Buildings (energy utilisation); Maintenance and reliability; Energy conservation; Construction industry; Financial management; Environmental issues; Environmental factors