Building environmental assessment as a knowledge management tool driving society

Green construction is gaining an increasing attention in the global context. However, green involves different meanings and different perspectives. Therefore, it is not a rudimentary task to manage green housing and green building project. Utilization of building environmental assessment tools has some benefits to achieve the projects. In this paper, we discuss the benefits and limitations of such an approach. Comprehensiveness, design guideline, signaling, and communication are indicated as major benefits of it, while we have remaining issues including mixture of quantitative and qualitative measures, ambiguity of weighing, and lack of financial aspects.