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LEED v4.1 operations & maintenance for existing buildings and compliance assessment: Bayt Al-Suhaymi, Historic Cairo

open access: yesAlexandria Engineering Journal, 2020
The architectural design and environmental treatments have shown a large impact on environmental indoor performance and energy efficiency of buildings. Designers have been working on more efficient buildings using tools like the Leadership in Energy and ...
Dalia A. ElSorady, Sahar M. Rizk
doaj   +1 more source

Handshaking towards zero-concept analysis and technical measures of LEED zero-energy building in connection with technical standard of nearly zero-energy building in China

open access: yesEnergy Exploration & Exploitation, 2021
To achieve zero-energy building target, both China and the US have planned pathway by formulating guidelines and standards. China has published National China technical standard for nearly zero energy building (CTS-NZEB), which defines detailed ...
Yiting Kang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of “Optimize Energy Performance” Credit Achievement on the Compensation Strategy of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings Gold-Certified Office Space Projects in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) version 3 (v3) and version 4 (v4) gold-certified office space certification strategies in Spain have not yet been studied. The two purposes of this study were to evaluate (
Svetlana Pushkar
doaj   +1 more source

Certifications in construction: a case study comparing LEED and HQE [PDF]

open access: yesWIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2011
Proposal: This paper presents concepts of sustainability embedded in environmental certifications applied to building construction. The article addresses the importance of certification and the benefits to the environment coming from its deployment. Building constructions consume many materials, emit many gases, and use a lot of energy and water, what ...
G. Rossi   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Exploring the Financial Perspective in Sustainability Strategies: The Case of the Tourism Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between sustainability and corporate financial performance in the tourism sector. To address the mixed and inconclusive evidence in prior research, we develop an integrated theoretical framework that combines stakeholder theory, the resource‐based view, legitimacy theory, and agency theory and distinguishes
Rebecca Levy Orelli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Global Fashion Supply Chains Respond to Structural Pressures? Examining Sustainability Conduct Through a Spatial–Temporal–Functional Lens

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fashion industry is facing unprecedented structural pressures, including increasing regulatory demands and rising expectations for social accountability. This study examines how global fashion supply chains respond to such pressures to advance sustainability.
Diletta Tosetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence Clubs in Corporate Sustainability: Identifying Industry and Risk‐Level ESG Convergence Patterns in S&P 500 Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing emphasis on corporate sustainability, it remains unclear whether firms will align with common ESG standards. The Phillips–Sul convergence methodology, in combination with dynamic time‐warping clustering, was utilized to analyze the ESG trajectories of 430 S&P 500 firms from 2019 to 2024.
Abdullah Kürşat Merter   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating State-of-the-Art LEED-NCv4 in the U.S.

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
To date, no empirical evidence has been published on the certification achievements of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction (LEED-NCv4) projects.
Svetlana Pushkar
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a Z‐ESG Score Model for Assessing Corporate ESG Performance

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study we develop a novel, unique ESG rating model that exploits the logic of the Z‐score by Altman (1968) to discriminate between ESG performing and non‐ESG performing firms using indicators of ESG performance for each of the three pillars (Environmental, Social, Governance) in place of financial ratios.
Edward I. Altman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Energy Credits in LEED-Certified Buildings Based on Certification Levels and Project Ownership

open access: yesBuildings, 2018
Compared to other categories, the Energy and Atmosphere category contributes the most to the maximum obtainable points in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system. The objective of the study was to identify the extent
Asli Pelin Gurgun, David Arditi
doaj   +1 more source

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