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INDEX

I. Introduction

II. Green Buildings and LEED

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III. Objectives

IV. Green Buildings and Productivity, Well Being and Strategic Performance

V. Examples

VI. Conclusions

VII. Bibliography

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I. Introduction

Sustanaible Development & Climate Change Mitigation

Landscape Management & Biodiversity Conservation

Urban Sustainability

Green Buildings

IIa. Green Building

Green Building is the practice of creating structures and using process that are

environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-

cycle from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and

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deconstruction.

IIa. Green Building

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Comfort

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HealthEnvironment

James & James, 1999

IIb. LEED

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally

recognized green building certification system, providing third-party

verification that a building or community was designed and built using

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strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter

most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved

indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to

their impacts.

II. Objectives

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Sustanaible Design Strategic Performance

Human Resource

Development

IVa. Green Buildings and Productivity

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• Thermal Environment (temperature, humidity level & ventilation)

• Air quality

• Lighting

IVa. Green Buildings and Productivity

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Seppanen & Fisk 2006

IVa. Green Buildings and Well Being

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• Air quality

• Lighting

• Windows and views

• Building acoustics

IVa. Green Buildings and Well Being

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IVc. Green Buildings and Strategic Performance

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• Turnover and Retention

• Absenteeism

• Organizational Image

• Organizatinal Level Productivity

• Cost Savings

• Marketing and Sales

• Costs of Indoor Air Quality Illnesses from a Insurance Perspective

V. Examples

i. Comcast Center (Philadelphia, US)

ii. Plaza at PPL Center (Allentown, US)

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iii. One Crescent Plaza (Philadelphia, US)

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Va. Conclusions

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i. Green Buildings are relevant to business interests across the full

spectrum of concerns, from portfolio issues to enhanced quality of

individual workspaces.

ii. Research on Green Buildings should address a range of outcomes

(workforce attraction and retention, quality of work life, work output,

and customer relationship).

iii. Green Buildings can provide both cost reduction benefits and value

added benefits.

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Green Building Features and

Productivity

Reference

Vb. Conclusions: structure

Productivity

Thermal and air quality factors Leaman (1999), Preller et al (1990),

Raw (1998a)

Comfort Brager & deDear (1998), Wyon (1996),

Diamond (1992), Melnechuck (1988)

Lighting Hedge et al (1995), Veitch & Newsham

(1999a)

Etc. Etc.

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Vb. Conclusions: content (I)

The Ecological Niche as

a n-dimensional hypervolumen

G.E. Hutchinson

Hutchinson, 1957

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Vb. Conclusions: content (II)

Independent

Variales (xi)

Dependent

Variales (yi)

Temperature (x ) Productivity (y )

y1 = a + b1x1 + b2x2 + … + bnxn

Temperature (x1)

Humidity (x2)

Ventilation (x3)

Comfort (x4)

Lighting (x5)

Window views (x6)

Daylight (x7)

Air quality (x8)

Acoustics (x9)

…

Comfort (xn)

Productivity (y1)

Well Being (y2)

Strategic

Performance (y3)

bi: regression coefficients

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V. References• Heerwagen, 2000. Green Buildings, Organizational Success, and Occupant Productivity. Building Research and Information

28(5): 353-367. (Scientific article)

• Hutchinson, G.E. 1957. Concluding Remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22 (2): 415–427.

• James & James, 1999. A GREEN VITRUVIUS. Principles and practice of sustanaible architectural design. ACE, ERG, SAFA &

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• James & James, 1999. A GREEN VITRUVIUS. Principles and practice of sustanaible architectural design. ACE, ERG, SAFA &

SOFTECH, London. 152 pp.

• Lan, L., Lian Z., Pan L., & Ye, Q. 2009. Neurobehavioral approach for evaluation of office workers’ productivity: The effects of

room temperature. Building and Environment 44: 1578–1588.

• Seppanen, O. A., & Fisk, W. J. 2006. Some Quantitative Relations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Work

Performance or Health. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved from:

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/80v061jx [01/11/09]

• Environmental Protection Agency (US): www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/ [01/11/09]

• US Green Building Council: www.usgbc.org [01/11/09]

• Philadelphia Business Journal: http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/ [01/11/09]

• Denis Du Bois, 2007. The Business Case for Green Office Buildings. Energy Priorities Magazine: http://energypriorities.com/

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