Building and construction industry has been widely regarded as a key player towards global warming and environmental degradation. Besides, the notion of promoting green built environments is about developing sustainable living atmospheres with optimized usage of energy resources. Respectively, recent studies represent increasing directives towards advancement of sustainable building facilities while pertaining to further reductions of negative environmental impacts. Tackling the respective issue, researchers have developed various rating systems and assessment methods in order to standardize the complex evaluation process of built environments towards sustainability. Nevertheless, utilization of generalized rating systems may result in suboptimal outcomes hence diverse building typologies require exclusively specified evaluation criteria and ranking indicators. Moreover, major design-construction decisions are made throughout the early stages of Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) progressions. Consequently, this paper posits incorporation of sustainable rating systems considerations during the initial conceptual stage in order to develop an integrated evaluation scheme towards eventual achievement of green built environments. The proposition suggests utilization of Building Information Modelling (BIM) during early AEC stages in order to optimize the respective construction management process. Ultimately, this research is expected to provide insights towards development of flexible exclusive rating systems for promotion of green built environments.Current output:Publication (in process)
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