Promoting Green buildings: Barriers, solutions, and policies

Green buildings usually refer to the use of environmentally friendly construction materials, processes, operation, and maintenance. The concept of a green building is
driven by incentives to reduce the cost of energy and waste management in light of global warming and environmental degradation. It is a common approach among public
buildings where energy use is high. Green buildings also have a higher social and environmental value, which cannot be quantified in monetary terms (Mohd et al. 2011).
Given the high energy consumption by the construction sector, green and sustainable building practices have been implemented for years (Lorenzen 2012), and there is
increasing demand to reduce energy consumption as well as to reduce environmental degradation (Azhar et al. 2011; Jalaei and Jrade 2015).