Green Buildings, can be defined as " The building which uses less water, optimizes energy efficiency,conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provide healthier spaces for occupants as compared to a conventional building ".
Need For Green Buildings:
Green
Building practices can particularly reduce or eliminate the negative
environmental impacts and improve existing unsustainable
design,construction and operational practices. As an added benefit,
Green Design features also reduce operational costs,enhance building
marketability, increase workers productivity and reduce potential
liability. Thus a Green Building can be called as a Sustained Building.
Green Buildings brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of Buildings on the environment and human health. Though these practices evolving day to day differ from region to region , certain fundamental principles persist from which the method is derived.
Green Buildings brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of Buildings on the environment and human health. Though these practices evolving day to day differ from region to region , certain fundamental principles persist from which the method is derived.
- Site and Structural Design efficiency
- Energy Efficiency
- Water Efficiency
- Material Efficiency
- Indoor Environmental Quality, and
- Waste and Toxic reduction.
Green Building Rating Program :
Indian
Green Building Council , operating at CII headquarters in Hyderabad, is
the sole responsible for Green Building movement in India. Like wise,
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is the International body
promoting the thoughts of Green Building across the world. They do
provide certification based on the grade of the Green Building. They are
four levels in this certification process. They are,
- Certified
- Silver
- Gold, and
- Platinum.
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