Building environmental assessment - site selection and project management

Building environmental assessment is a specific process oriented to systematic, comprehensive and integrated evaluation of building performance. These processes lead to design, construction and operation of buildings with respect to criteria of sustainable development. Building environmental assessment is not only tool of control, but also tool of sustainable building design. The building environmental assessment systems deal with site selection criteria, the efficient use of energy and water resources during building operations, waste management during construction and operations, indoor environmental quality, demands for transportation services, and the selection of environmentally preferable materials. The Slovak building environmental assessment system was processed. The fields and indicators are proposed on the base of available experiences database analysis from environmental performance of buildings. The field site selection and project management will be introduced in the paper. Also the proposal and verify of this field will be presented for selected office building.