Abstract
The rising concern for environmental issue made a new word of 'Green Building' or 'Sustainable Building' et al. In architectural field, various tools concerning the evaluation of Green Building are developed all over the world in recent 10 years. However, the definition of Green Building is not clear. We tried to make it clear by collecting and studying Green Building evaluation tools, and this study will continue to find the needs of contribution of Architectural Environment Engineering field to these evaluation tools in the future. As a result, a lot of tools are existed. However, they have common three issues which are energy efficiency, low impact to environment, and indoor comfort & health. It seemed that the building which these three issues balanced was able to defined as a Green Building, and an evaluation tool to check this balance can be defined as a Green Building evaluation tool.
