ABSTRACT
From the initial attempts to the present, the use
of these methods and tools became widespread,
and clearly had several direct and indirect benefits,
which can be stated as follows (Cole, 2005):
• They made a clear definition of the “green
building” and improved environmental per-
formance while recognizing issues of cost and
applicability,
• They affirmed a set of performance issues and
assigned significance to them, thus making the
assessments in an objective and explicit manner,
• Theyprovidedagreater communicationand inter-
action between the members of the design team
and stakeholders of the construction industry,
• They provided single and summarized results of
building environmental performance assessment
to inform the developers, investors, designers,
occupants, and etc.
