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Green buildings: Issues for New Zealand

Author(s) -

Hugh Byrd,

Paola Leardini

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

procedia engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.32

H-Index - 74

ISSN - 1877-7058

DOI - 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.11.2041

Subject(s) - architectural engineering , sustainability , electricity , mains electricity , order (exchange) , glazing , green building , civil engineering , environmental economics , engineering , business , environmental resource management , environmental science , economics , electrical engineering , finance , ecology , voltage , biology

If the mission of ‘green’ rating tools is to accelerate the transformation of the global built environment towards sustainability then a high priority must be placed on the energy consumed by buildings since energy supplies from various sources are depleting. This paper examines the apparent anomaly that almost all designs of ‘green’ office developments in New Zealand have high proportions of unshaded glazing. They are sealed, lightweight, airconditioned buildings that are dependent on an uninterrupted supply of electricity in order to remain habitable. From an architectural science point of view, these characteristics are not normally associated with sustainability. The paper will investigate the drivers behind the highly glazed buildings recently realized in New Zealand, including those components of ‘green’ rating tools that favour this building typ

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