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Water Efficiency Evaluation Analysis Among Environmental Certification Methods: LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, HQE, EDGE, and BONO VERDE

Water Efficiency Evaluation Analysis Among Environmental Certification Methods: LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, HQE, EDGE, and BONO VERDE

Estela Karem Samamé Zegarra (Navarra University, Spain)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7023-4.ch013
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Abstract

Developing countries such as Peru are not strangers in promoting sustainability in buildings through local certification programs such as My Green House funded by international organizations; or architectural design competitions for houses such as “Build to Grow”; compliance standards such as the one published in March 2018, “Climate Change Law”; in addition to other optional legal standards such as “EM.110 Thermal and Light Comfort with Energy Efficiency”: a technical code of voluntary sustainable construction; and the entry of international environmental certifications such as EDGE and LEED, which are currently very welcomed by real estate developers due to the incentives. One of them is the height bonus, which is promoted by some municipal ordinances, mostly located in the capital city of Lima as a product of a project developed and promoted by the IFC and World Bank. On the other hand, in the retail or office sector, they are promoted by green corporate policies; however, there is a long way to go.
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The Importance Of The Water Resource From An Environmental Perspective For Housing On The Coast Of Peru.

Developing countries such as Peru join to build sustainable, for this reason it has been promoting local certification programs such as My Green House or architectural design competitions for sustainable homes such as “Build to Grow” (Fondo Mivivienda SA, 2021), compliance standards such as the one published in March 2018 “Climate Change Law”, in addition to other optional legal standards such as “EM.110 Thermal and Light Comfort with Energy Efficiency”(Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, 2014), an updated technical Code of Sustainable Construction (Ministry of Housing, Construction and Housing, 2021) and the entry of international environmental certifications such as EDGE and LEED.

For example, the EDGE certification in Peru is currently very popular with real estate developers. (EDGE, nd)Due to the incentives they receive for certifying any of their residential buildings, one of the incentives, among others, is the height bonus. The green municipal ordinances have been key to this, however they are mostly managed in the capital districts of Lima as part of the project developed and promoted by the IFC World Bank called “Green Building and Municipalities Peru(IFC -International Finance Corporation, 2017-2018). On the other hand, in the Retail or Office sector, green corporate policies promote the use of the internationally known LEED certification.

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