Measurement

Creating a livable, sustainable community with sound economic prospects and a strong relation to the environment is a process measured by many yardsticks. Concepts include quality homes, environmental/energy design and a "learning organism" that improves its performance as each decision is made and implemented.


The Noisette Rose was created to provide a flexible tool to facilitate goal setting and measurement to chart the success of the community project. Click here for a larger PDF version.
 

Noisette Rose

This flexible tool permits the measurement metrics for social, environmental, economic and other types of performance to be selected for each project. It can be used independently or in combination with other assessment tools.



The Noisette development team and the City of North Charleston have created the Noisette Quality Home Perfomance Standards to define the performance of residential development.
 

Noisette Quality Home

Performance standards have been developed especially for the Noisette community. These evaluate new low-rise residential buildings based on six measurement categories:

• Sustainable sites & communities

• Water efficiency

• Building durability

• Energy use

• Materials & resources

• Indoor environmental quality



The U.S. Green Building Council developed the LEED™ Green Building rating system.
 

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED™)

The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED standards are the foremost national standards for evaluating occupant well-being, environmental performance and economic returns of commercial and high-rise residential construction. A variety of LEED-based tools are under development.



 

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