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2008

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Mining Association Rules Between Credits In The Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design For New Construction (Leed-Nc) Green Building Assessment System, Benjamin J. Thomas Mar 2008

Mining Association Rules Between Credits In The Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design For New Construction (Leed-Nc) Green Building Assessment System, Benjamin J. Thomas

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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Building Assessment System is a performance-based tool for determining the environmental impact of a facility from the whole-building perspective. Taking this vision into account, the individual credits that comprise LEED are designed to reward design teams for employing sustainable design strategies that reduce the total environmental impact across several sustainability issues. This study analyzed projects that have been certified in LEED for New Construction (LEED-NC) versions 2.0 and 2.1. Data on the credits achieved by the projects were mined using the Apriori algorithm which produced 641 association rules. These results were then …