Green Building and Human Experience: Testing Green Building Strategies with Volunteered Geographic Information

This USGBC Research Program white paper attempts to develop a framework for the sustained collection of data on actual human experience within the built environment by exploring the intersection between three important concepts: human experience, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Green Building. Included is a discussion of potential opportunities to use practice-based experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of green building strategies in improving the health, safety, and well-being of occupants.