Collection Title:	SIU Thesis
Title :	Methodological Approach to Improve LEED Certification Understanding Using LEED V4 Interior Design and Construction
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Liangda Heng, Author ; Apichat Praditsmanont, Associated Name ; Schoch, Martin, Associated Name
Publisher:	Bangkok: Shinawatra University
Publication Date:	2017
Pagination:	viiii, 201 p.
Layout:	ill, tables
Size:	30 cm.
Price:	500.00
General note:	SIU THE: SOMT-MSMT-2017-01 THE. [MSMT.[Management Technology]] -- Shinawatra University, 2017.
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	[LCSH]Construction [LCSH]Design
Keywords:	Sustainable interior design, LEED v4 Interior Design and Construction, Independent level of specialist support, Financial benefit, Social benefit, Environmental benefit
Abstract:	Developing sustainable design in commercial interior spaces improves both the health performance on occupants and environment, and provides cost savings. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating systems provide sustainable guidelines in design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings for the building owners, designers and engineers, and offer sustainable certification for buildings. The LEED v4 Interior Design and Construction (LEED ID&C) defines indoor sustainable requirements that focus on improving commercial interior design and management. It is considered a guideline for professionals and advanced specialists who have sustainable design and management experience (Mendler, Odell, & Lazarus, 2006). Understanding the LEED rating system and its sustainable requirements will help the designers strengthen the knowledge of sustainability in the related key fields of interiors, gain more benefits, and be able to satisfy the LEED requirements successfully. This research focuses on the development of a tool to help project stakeholders improve their understanding on using the LEED ID&C guidelines by prioritizing the LEED ID&C criteria according to financial, social, and environmental benefits and their need for specialist support, which allows an informed decision making process to achieve the desired level of LEED certification. The scores obtained in the rating table depend on the background and experiences of the project owners or the interior designers. Utilizing these rating scores as inputs, the ranking table automatically lists the LEED ID&C criteria by their weighted average scores of the rating scale in four different aspects in descending order, and calculates the accumulated LEED credits while evaluating the achieved LEED certifications. This rating and comparing processes of the LEED criteria were based on Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) method. The AHP is a popular theory of measurement for measuring and judging intangibles (Saaty, 2008). This research tool simplifies the process of evaluating LEED criteria, and listed the potential certification points that can be earned based on the LEED certification systems. Consequently, the preferable LEED criteria obtained with the help of this tool can then be applied in the selected interior sustainable design project. Another objective of this research is to illustrate the effectiveness and usefulness of this tool through utilizing this tool to analyze and evaluate LEED criteria, and to recognize the general sustainable value of the seven major categories in terms of financial, social and environmental benefits, and independent level of specialist support, in order to help the project team concentrate on the improvement of the most recommended criteria with the related key fields. Part of the objective is also to improve the collaboration of team members through putting the preferred criteria into design process with the related core specialists. With the research based on hypothetical situations, readers can utilize this research to measure their own project. For further research, a real project should be utilized to test and verify the results of this research, and illustrate the usefulness and capabilities of the ranking table.
Curricular :	BSMT/MSMT
Record link:	http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=27205

SIU Thesis. Methodological Approach to Improve LEED Certification Understanding Using LEED V4 Interior Design and Construction [printed text] / Liangda Heng, Author ; Apichat Praditsmanont, Associated Name ; Schoch, Martin, Associated Name . - [S.l.] : Bangkok: Shinawatra University, 2017 . - viiii, 201 p. : ill, tables ; 30 cm.
500.00
SIU THE: SOMT-MSMT-2017-01
THE. [MSMT.[Management Technology]] -- Shinawatra University, 2017.
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:	[LCSH]Construction [LCSH]Design
Keywords:	Sustainable interior design, LEED v4 Interior Design and Construction, Independent level of specialist support, Financial benefit, Social benefit, Environmental benefit
Abstract:	Developing sustainable design in commercial interior spaces improves both the health performance on occupants and environment, and provides cost savings. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating systems provide sustainable guidelines in design, construction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings for the building owners, designers and engineers, and offer sustainable certification for buildings. The LEED v4 Interior Design and Construction (LEED ID&C) defines indoor sustainable requirements that focus on improving commercial interior design and management. It is considered a guideline for professionals and advanced specialists who have sustainable design and management experience (Mendler, Odell, & Lazarus, 2006). Understanding the LEED rating system and its sustainable requirements will help the designers strengthen the knowledge of sustainability in the related key fields of interiors, gain more benefits, and be able to satisfy the LEED requirements successfully. This research focuses on the development of a tool to help project stakeholders improve their understanding on using the LEED ID&C guidelines by prioritizing the LEED ID&C criteria according to financial, social, and environmental benefits and their need for specialist support, which allows an informed decision making process to achieve the desired level of LEED certification. The scores obtained in the rating table depend on the background and experiences of the project owners or the interior designers. Utilizing these rating scores as inputs, the ranking table automatically lists the LEED ID&C criteria by their weighted average scores of the rating scale in four different aspects in descending order, and calculates the accumulated LEED credits while evaluating the achieved LEED certifications. This rating and comparing processes of the LEED criteria were based on Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) method. The AHP is a popular theory of measurement for measuring and judging intangibles (Saaty, 2008). This research tool simplifies the process of evaluating LEED criteria, and listed the potential certification points that can be earned based on the LEED certification systems. Consequently, the preferable LEED criteria obtained with the help of this tool can then be applied in the selected interior sustainable design project. Another objective of this research is to illustrate the effectiveness and usefulness of this tool through utilizing this tool to analyze and evaluate LEED criteria, and to recognize the general sustainable value of the seven major categories in terms of financial, social and environmental benefits, and independent level of specialist support, in order to help the project team concentrate on the improvement of the most recommended criteria with the related key fields. Part of the objective is also to improve the collaboration of team members through putting the preferred criteria into design process with the related core specialists. With the research based on hypothetical situations, readers can utilize this research to measure their own project. For further research, a real project should be utilized to test and verify the results of this research, and illustrate the usefulness and capabilities of the ranking table.
Curricular :	BSMT/MSMT
Record link:	http://libsearch.siu.ac.th/siu/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=27205