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    Green construction aims to minimize environmental impact and resource use throughout the building's lifecycle. It incorporates principles like energy efficiency, water conservation, sustainable materials, and indoor air quality. Some key benefits are reduced carbon emissions by 35%, water use by 40%, and energy use by 50% compared to traditional buildings. While green buildings may have slightly higher initial costs, the savings over the lifetime of the building through lower utility bills means the additional costs are recouped within 10 years. LEED certification is a common standard for measuring a building's environmental performance.

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    Green construction aims to minimize environmental impact and resource use throughout the building's lifecycle. It incorporates principles like energy efficiency, water conservation, sustainable materials, and indoor air quality. Some key benefits are reduced carbon emissions by 35%, water use by 40%, and energy use by 50% compared to traditional buildings. While green buildings may have slightly higher initial costs, the savings over the lifetime of the building through lower utility bills means the additional costs are recouped within 10 years. LEED certification is a common standard for measuring a building's environmental performance.

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    Green construction aims to minimize environmental impact and resource use throughout the building's lifecycle. It incorporates principles like energy efficiency, water conservation, sustainable materials, and indoor air quality. Some key benefits are reduced carbon emissions by 35%, water use by 40%, and energy use by 50% compared to traditional buildings. While green buildings may have slightly higher initial costs, the savings over the lifetime of the building through lower utility bills means the additional costs are recouped within 10 years. LEED certification is a common standard for measuring a building's environmental performance.

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    Green construction aims to minimize environmental impact and resource use throughout the building's lifecycle. It incorporates principles like energy efficiency, water conservation, sustainable materials, and indoor air quality. Some key benefits are reduced carbon emissions by 35%, water use by 40%, and energy use by 50% compared to traditional buildings. While green buildings may have slightly higher initial costs, the savings over the lifetime of the building through lower utility bills means the additional costs are recouped within 10 years. LEED certification is a common standard for measuring a building's environmental performance.

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    Green Construction

    1. Introduction
    2. Objective
    3. System
    4. Fundamental principal
    5. Different from other building
    6. cost
    7. Comparative study

    1. Introduction
    Green building also known as green construction or sustainable building is the
    structure that use process that environmentally responsible and resource efficiency
    throughout a building from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance,
    renovation and deconstruction.
    The main aim of the architects, engineers and contractors remains at saving the
    consumption of energy, water, electricity and other important resources at the time
    of construction and post construction which proves highly beneficial for building
    owners and for built-environment as well.
    A similar concept is natural building which is usually on a smaller scale and tends to
    focus on the use of natural materials that are available locally. Other related topic
    includes sustainable design and green architecture. Sustainability may be defined as
    meeting the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future
    generations to meet their needs. Although some design building program address
    the issue of the retrofitting existing homes, others do, especially through public
    schemes for energy efficient refurbishment. Green construction principle can easily
    applied to retrofit work as well as new construction.
    2. LEED

    LEED is defined as an acronym for low energy electron diffraction. It is also acronym
    for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a set of standards for the
    construction and operation of green buildings administered by the United States
    green building council.
    The LEED rating is form of eco-label that rates buildings according to key
    environmental attributes such as site impacts, energy and water use, selection of
    materials and indoor environmental quality.

    3. Objectives
    1. Reducing the overall impact of the build environment on human health
    and natural environment through.
    2. The use of high efficiency, energy, water, and other resources.
    3. Protect the health of passenger and improve employee productivity.
    4. Reduce waste and pollution and environmental degradation.
    5. Ensuring indoor air quality, promoting smart growth and sustainable
    development.

     System
    1. Development of green building is impossible in the absence of advanced
    software such as Revit and Tekla.
    2. Energy analytical models can be developed with the information contained
    in 3D parametric building information models.
    3. Depending upon the project requirement energy analysis can be
    conducted during early design phase and also during the late design
    development.
    4. Leadership in energy and environmental design commonly referred as
    LEED plays a major role in the development of green buildings.

    Fig1. Diagram showing how the green building works


     Green landscaping strategy:
    a) Green site creation to harvest rainwater through minimization of runoff
    loss bio swales.
    b) Installation of previous pavements around the building.
    c) Planting xerophytes around the building in order to minimize
    supplemental irrigation.

    Fig2: Green building System

    Fundamental Principal

    1. Siting and Structure design efficiency: (i) it is one of the key step in the project
    life cycle, they also have the greatest impact on cost and performance. (ii)
    review of alternatives for sustainable products.

    2. Energy efficiency: (i)green building often work to reduce energy consumption


    through : directing the building to take advantage of solar energy, natural
    lighting and shadows. (ii) Efficiency thermal envelope of the building and
    windows alternative energy sources. (renewable)

    I. Ways to achieve energy efficiency in green building


    a. Use of solar shading and advanced day lighting.
    b. Installing natural ventilation systems instead of forced air
    heating and cooling.
    c. Providing reflective exterior surfaces.
    d. Usage of advanced heating and cooling technologies.
    e. Usage of building energy management systems, efficient
    lighting system.

    3. Water efficiency: to minimize water consumption one should aim to use the
    water which has been collected, used, purified and reused.

    4. Waste and toxic reduction : (i) recycling the solid waste materials. (ii)
    Converting waste into fertilizer.

    5. Material efficiency: (i) building material that include wood from forests that
    have been adopted according to the specific standard, plant materials and
    renewable quickly, such as bamboo rattan, stone, recycled metals,
    photovoltaic, eco-cement, and other products that are non-toxic ,reusable,
    renewable and recycling recoverable materials for recycling after the
    demolition of the building.

     Different from other building


    I. Average saving
    1. Carbon emission- 35%
    2. Water use-40%
    3. Energy use- 50%
    4. Solid waste- 70%

    II. Cost
    Very often green building is considered to be expensive as usually all kind of
    modern building method. However it saves much more money from the
    moment of creating during it’s lifetime as ordinary buildings. It works with any
    kind of green structures- office buildings, schools, churches, factories and
    other types of buildings. Designing and building green structures cost
    approximately the same as regular buildings. Even if they are higher in cost a
    little bit, because of some special requirements, during their usage they save
    so much energy that the money spent on it’s creation will return at least 10
    times.

     Comparative study
    1. Employees of business tenants satisfy company goals when building green.
    2. High self-esteem: green construction boots self-worth of employees
    3. Green construction values physical activity of tenants, and decreases noise
    pollution.
    4. Quick reaction to crisis: occupants develop better feedback when working
    in green building.
    5. Natural daylight results win better perception of work.
    Comparatively, green building and construction truly has several benefits. It is high time
    that construction companies resort to this, initiate this movement in the industry.
    We should not ignore the green building concepts, because of indiscriminate use of
    concrete and conventional building materials in urban areas, the normal atmospheric
    temperature is relatively higher than areas with few buildings. CO 2 emissions from such
    buildings add to the environmental pollution and global warming which might result in
    catastrophic consequences.
    With growing demands for sustainable, eco-friendly and socially responsible lifestyle has
    necessitated the construction of green building towards achieving the goal of a greener
    planet in foreseeable future.
    The innovation in sustainable building technologies is not only a benchmarking
    standards for next generation building but also safe practices for curbing global warming
    and environmental pollution.

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