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The article is devoted to the introduction of valuation criteria of ecology friendliness, energy efficiency, resource conservation, especially in public procurement, and construction of public facilities into the Russian practice. It focuses on the following three issues: where to obtain the money for the development of "green" energy; how to use the evaluation of life-cycle cost in order to measure the economic effect of investment in green building; which legislative initiatives are required for the development of “the federal contract system” and improvement of environmental literacy.

With the increasing awareness of sustainable development in the Russian construction industry, implementation of an energy rating procedure to assess buildings is becoming more important. The most representative building environment assessment schemes that are in use today are Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). This paper aims to focus on the investigation of energy performance assessment for new buildings including the Russian experience within the BREEAM and LEED schemes. A review of the two schemes with regards to their assessment methods, scopes, performance criteria and energy rating scales are presented. Through this study, an attempt is made to make clear how building energy performance is assessed and therefore awarded with energy credits under the international schemes and to form a good basis for future development of a generic energy assessment framework of Russian Federation.

This study is aimed at studying computer models that provide a wide range of data in the field of modeling parameters of the internal microclimate of buildings with green spaces inside. The main segment of the study is bioclimatic buildings. There are three main ways to integrate vegetation into such houses: green roofs, green facades, and horizontal plantings in the building. In this article, vertical and horizontal landscaping inside the premises were considered with the aim of realizing the dynamic modeling of such a building. There are two main currents of dynamic modeling: Computational fluid dynamics and Building Energy Simulation. Proper use of energy modeling can help optimize the construction of the building and allow the project team to give priority to investment in strategies that will have the greatest impact on energy savings in the building. These tools allow to achieve maximum accuracy in the urban environment (temperature, wind speed and direction and other characteristics of a given territory are taken into account), modeling of spatial and temporal distributions of bioclimatic parameters, as well as detailed modeling of the building and its parameters (geometry, design, internal conditions, ventilation, HVAC system, etc.) and obtaining accurate energy characteristics of the building.