Sustainability assessment of a laboratory building: case study of highest rated laboratory building in Singapore using Green Mark rating system

• Main Authors: Babu, Sushanth, Lamano, Adrian, Pawar, Priya
• Other Authors: Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Building Performance Evaluation; Laboratory Building; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Energy conservation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80736; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46591
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Laboratory intensive buildings pose a distinctive challenge in sustainable building design, since they represent energy guzzling spaces due to unique operation and energy demanding activities. Academic Block North (ABN), a laboratory intensive building in Singapore begs to differ from this norm by demonstrating 42% energy savings compared to a building constructed based on code standards. This paper highlights the process of sustainability assessment of ABN to achieve 126 points to go beyond Green Mark Platinum standards for a non-residential building. Such an approach and framework can be applied to other buildings to achieve higher energy efficiency and sustainability benchmarks.