More Than Just a Glass Face: What Makes a "Green" or "Sustainable" Building, Exactly?

Author

Kelli Kokame, Pomona CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

2017

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Environmental Analysis

Reader 1

Char Miller

Reader 2

Lance Neckar

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Abstract

Buildings are responsible for a wide range of environmental impacts. In response to this, several green building standards have been developed. Each standard uses different strategies and has different approaches to defining what features should make up a green building. This thesis uses the LEED, BREEAM, EEWH, and Living Building Challenge standards as a lens through which this question of what makes a green building is explored, with an emphasis on the distinction between greenness and sustainability in the built environment.

Recommended Citation

Kokame, Kelli, "More Than Just a Glass Face: What Makes a "Green" or "Sustainable" Building, Exactly?" (2017). Pomona Senior Theses. 176.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/176