The assessment of dormitories and University Health Service in UPLB campus as a sustainable building using the excellence in design for greater efficiencies (EDGE) tool

Date

12-2015

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Perlie P. Velasco

Abstract

Buildings are one of the heaviest consumers of natural resources and account for a significant portion of the greenhouse emissions that affect climate change. As a response to these essential challenges, construction of sustainable buildings started to be recognized. Buildings that showed these attributions of sustainability and at the same time uniting a high comfort level and healthy indoor climate while banking on regenerative energies and resources are called Green Buildings. Demand for construction of green building became a business advantage on International Finance Corporation (IFC) and lead them to develop an innovative building assessment tool called the Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE). Using EDGE, dormitories and University Health Service (UHS) in UPLB were assessed if it qualifies as a green building. The software EDGE focuses on three main resource categories namely, energy efficiency, water efficiency and materials efficiency. To achieve the EDGE standard, 20% reduction in operational energy consumption, water use, and embodied energy of materials should be demonstrated by a building. Such action evaluated that none of the buildings qualified as a sustainable building.

Language

English

Location

UPLB College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT)

Call Number

LG 993.5 2015 E63 /T56

Document Type

Thesis

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