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How to Make Green Building Certification & Rating Systems More Pandemic-Sustainable?

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The present study demonstrates a gap analysis (in response to the COVID-19 pandemic) of the best known widely used green building certification and rating systems (GBC&RSs): LEED, WELL, BREEAM, CASBEE. These systems have been analyzed for their missing responses according to a list of selected pandemic-sustainable indicators. The gap levels for each system have been calculated and then compared to each other. Among four GBC&RSs, BREEAM exhibited the smallest gap score, whereas LEED and WELL held the largest gap scores. Following these results, we suggest courses of action for each system to remove the gaps that will result in achieving a better response under pandemic conditions.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support from Nazarbayev University’s Faculty Development Competitive Research Grant Program (FDCRGP, Funder Project Reference: 280720FD1904).

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave., Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan

    A. Tleuken, G. Tokazhanov, M. Guney, A. Turkyilmaz & F. Karaca

  2. The Environment and Resource Efficiency Cluster (EREC), Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan

    M. Guney & F. Karaca

  3. Master of Engineering Management Program, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan

    A. Turkyilmaz

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    Keiji Ujikawa

  2. Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, University of Paris, Paris, Paris, France

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Tleuken, A., Tokazhanov, G., Guney, M., Turkyilmaz, A., Karaca, F. (2022). How to Make Green Building Certification & Rating Systems More Pandemic-Sustainable?. In: Ujikawa, K., Ishiwatari, M., Hullebusch, E.v. (eds) Environment and Sustainable Development. ACESD 2021. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1704-2_23

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