GREEN BUILDINGS, ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS, Ramiro Aznar Ballarin

November 2009
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November 2009
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INDEX
I. Introduction

II. Green Buildings and LEED

III. Objectives

IV. Green Buildings and Productivity, Well Being and Strategic Performance

V. Examples

VI. Conclusions

VII. Bibliography
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I. Introduction

Sustanaible Development & Climate Change Mitigation

Landscape Management & Biodiversity Conservation

Urban Sustainability

Green Buildings
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IIa. Green Building

Green Building is the practice of creating structures and using process that are
environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-
cycle from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and
deconstruction.
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IIa. Green Building

+
Comfort
+

Environment
Health +
-

James & James, 1999

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IIb. LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally
recognized green building certification system, providing third-party
verification that a building or community was designed and built using
strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter
most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved
indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to
their impacts.
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II. Objectives

Sustanaible Design Strategic Performance

Human Resource
Development
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IVa. Green Buildings and Productivity

• Thermal Environment (temperature, humidity level & ventilation)

• Air quality

• Lighting
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IVa. Green Buildings and Productivity

Seppanen & Fisk 2006

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IVa. Green Buildings and Well Being

• Air quality

• Lighting

• Windows and views

• Building acoustics
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IVa. Green Buildings and Well Being

Seppanen & Fisk 2006 Lan et al 2009

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IVc. Green Buildings and Strategic Performance

• Turnover and Retention

• Absenteeism

• Organizational Image

• Organizatinal Level Productivity

• Cost Savings

• Marketing and Sales

• Costs of Indoor Air Quality Illnesses from a Insurance Perspective

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V. Examples
i. Comcast Center (Philadelphia, US)

ii. Plaza at PPL Center (Allentown, US)

iii. One Crescent Plaza (Philadelphia, US)

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Va. Conclusions
i. Green Buildings are relevant to business interests across the full
spectrum of concerns, from portfolio issues to enhanced quality of
individual workspaces.

ii. Research on Green Buildings should address a range of outcomes

(workforce attraction and retention, quality of work life, work output,
and customer relationship).

iii. Green Buildings can provide both cost reduction benefits and value
added benefits.
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Vb. Conclusions: structure

Green Building Features and Reference

Productivity
Thermal and air quality factors Leaman (1999), Preller et al (1990),
Raw (1998a)
Comfort Brager & deDear (1998), Wyon (1996),
Diamond (1992), Melnechuck (1988)
Lighting Hedge et al (1995), Veitch & Newsham
(1999a)
Etc. Etc.
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Vb. Conclusions: content (I)

The Ecological Niche as
a n-dimensional hypervolumen

G.E. Hutchinson
Hutchinson, 1957
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Vb. Conclusions: content (II)

Independent Dependent y1 = a + b1x1 + b2x2 + … + bnxn

Variales (xi) Variales (yi)
Temperature (x1) Productivity (y1)
Humidity (x2) Well Being (y2)
Ventilation (x3) Strategic
Comfort (x4) Performance (y3)
Lighting (x5) bi: regression coefficients
Window views (x6)
Daylight (x7)
Air quality (x8)
Acoustics (x9)
…
Comfort (xn)
Green Buildings
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V. References
• Heerwagen, 2000. Green Buildings, Organizational Success, and Occupant Productivity. Building Research and Information
28(5): 353-367. (Scientific article)

• Hutchinson, G.E. 1957. Concluding Remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22 (2): 415–427.

• James & James, 1999. A GREEN VITRUVIUS. Principles and practice of sustanaible architectural design. ACE, ERG, SAFA &
SOFTECH, London. 152 pp.

• Lan, L., Lian Z., Pan L., & Ye, Q. 2009. Neurobehavioral approach for evaluation of office workers’ productivity: The effects of
room temperature. Building and Environment 44: 1578–1588.

• Seppanen, O. A., & Fisk, W. J. 2006. Some Quantitative Relations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Work
Performance or Health. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved from:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/80v061jx [01/11/09]

• Environmental Protection Agency (US): www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/ [01/11/09]

• US Green Building Council: www.usgbc.org [01/11/09]

• Philadelphia Business Journal: http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/ [01/11/09]

• Denis Du Bois, 2007. The Business Case for Green Office Buildings. Energy Priorities Magazine: http://energypriorities.com/
[01/11/09] (Lay article)
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