Green Building Note

What is the Green Building?

The sustainable or high performance building increases the efficiency in buildings and use harvest energy, water and materials. The process that environmental friendly and resource efficient through building life cycle.

Concept of Green Building

The building that ensures waste is minimized at every stage during the construction and operation of the building that resulting in low costs by means low maintenance and energy using the building.

Objectives of Green Building

The main reason is to reduce overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by follows:

1. Efficiently using energy, water, and other resource.
2.  Protecting occupant health and improve employee productivity.
3. Reduce waste, pollution and environment degradation.

Structural design efficiency

Concept stage of designing is the major step in the project life cycle that effected the largest impact on cost performance.

In designing an environmentally optimal building, the objective is to minimize total environmental impact with all life cycle stages of building project or others project.

Variation of every design variable may affect the environment during all building.

Energy Efficiency

It can reduce operating energy use in building to achieve higher efficiency windows and insulation in walls, ceilings and floor. Passive solar building design, implemented in low energy houses. Designers oriented windows and walls can be the one consumption of energy that may can reduce the energy used even the materials for roofing. Maximize Solar in Summer day is most effective than winter. Moreover,  in daylight the potion of the windows must be suitable to provide the natural light and less the need for electrical lighting in day time.

Renewable energy through solar power, wind power, hydropower, biomass can reduce environmental affected to building that can produce the electrical. Although, the renewable energy is can generate most expensive feature to building.

Water Efficiency

The water efficiency can reduce the water consumption and protect water quantity. To the maximum extent feasible, facilities should increase their defense on water that collected, used, purified and reuse on site.

Waste water may minimize by utilizing water conserving fixtures such as ultra-low finish toilets and low flow shower heads.

Materials Efficiency

The green building materials composed of renewable resources such as bottle to make the fencing wall. Selection criteria for the material/product as follows:

1.  Resource efficiency
2. Indoor Air Quality
3. Energy Efficiency
4. Water Conservation
5.  Affordability or Cost

How to make Green Home

1. ·         Exposure to Sun: Shield from the heat and UV light
2. ·         Insulation : Using blown insulation such as Aluminium insulation.
3. ·         Recycle materials: sustainable resources and reduce maintenance cost.
4. ·         Insulated foundation walls: Improve comfortable for homes and reduce utility cost, by mean an orientation of the building or home.
5. ·         Insulated basement floor: help eliminate dampers.
6. ·         High efficiency mechanical system: reduce energy bill (electrical).
7. ·         Consume water: save water and reduce the water bill.
8. ·         Natural landscaping: less maintenance
9. ·         Ventilation outdoor: Use the wind through the open windows for air fresh come in. 

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