Building Performance of the Green Certified Buildings: A Case Study in Turkey and in the Netherlands for Evaluating Green Building Certification Practices

SUMMARY Today there is a conflict between the terms “green building” and “green certified building”. Green buildings minimize the influence of buildings to environment and provide better working and living spaces. Green building certification systems appraise a building's green performance and affirm its green building status through frameworks and targets to achieve a green building. The main purpose of the research is to analyze and clarify the green building and the green building certifications issues in the building market. Specifying the main problems in the market regarding to these issues and trying to produce proper solutions to the problems is one of the main purposes of the research. In the research a case study building is used in analyzes with building performance simulation tools and also assessed in the Netherlands’ building market as well as in the Turkish one. The green building certification score and credits are reviewed critically. Besides interviews and questionnaires are made with the stakeholders and their opinions regarding to the green building certifications are considered.