Assessment of green building standards: Identifying aspects/opportunities for future improvements

Social problems and environmental degradation are the result of economic development in many parts of the world. Balancing social, environment and economic is the goal of sustainable development. Many countries have developed environmental assessment standards to support sustainable development concept. This paper presents a comparative study of green building evaluation standards in both developed and developing countries to find similarities and differences in order to make future improvement on each standard to full field sustainable development concept. The comparison is done by reorganize criteria listed in those standards to match BREEAM evaluation criteria for ease of study. The study found that most building evaluation systems focuses mainly on environment and then economic while pay less attention on social side and most criteria gives higher emphasis to energy and environmental mitigation issues with “proactive” measures. For the future development of evaluation standard, social impact need to be improved and minimization of building material use need to be preventive more than reactive management. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Diamond Congress Ltd. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2018.