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| Essay:GBC - Green Building ChallengeGBC is a hierarchical system of environmental assessment criteria for buildings developed for international comparative purposes in order to select and analyse the environmental performance and impact of buildings, initially for Green Building Challenge '98 and subsequently for the Sustainable Building 2000 conference. Three versions exist: multiunit residential buildings, office buildings and schools. In each version a very comprehensive list of environmental criteria in 19 categories is addressed and scored using a weighting system. The output can be presented in a concise graphical format, which can be seen as an Environmental Label. -- http://www.surveying.salford.ac.uk/bqtoolkit/tkpages/ass_meth/methods/amgbc_4.html
Green Building Challenge is an international collaborative effort to develop a building environmental assessment tool that exposes and addresses controversial aspects of building performance and from which the participating countries can selectively draw ideas to either incorporate into or modify their own tools.
Green Building Challenge 2002 is a continuation of the GBC '98 - 2000 process and a multi-year period of review, modification and testing of the GBC Assessment Framework and Green Building Tool (GBTool) - the operational software for the assessment framework. This current round of the GBC process will culminate in the presentation of the assessed buildings at the Sustainable Building 2002 Conference (SB 2002) held in Oslo, Norway in September 2000.
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