LEED Implementation Guide for Municipal Green Buildings
The range of environmental pressures the planet faces are familiar to most people, and have resulted in a widespread acceptance of the need to change many aspects of current practices in order to reduce our impacts on the natural environment.
What is sometimes not always perfectly understood is the precise nature of the relationship between particular activities and environmental impacts.
This guide reviews how buildings, through the energy and resources they consume over their lifecycle (design, construction, operation and demolition) are closely related to many of the most significant negative environmental impacts at local, regional and global scales.
The guide focuses on the Greater Vancouver Regional District but topics can be applied to other civic green building strategies.
Publisher: GVRD
Dec, 2002
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