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    Green buildings provide environmental, economic, and social benefits. Environmentally, green buildings reduce negative impacts by using less water and energy, and can have positive impacts by generating their own energy or increasing biodiversity. Economically, green buildings offer cost savings through lower utility bills, construction costs, and operating expenses, as well as higher property values. Socially, green buildings improve occupant health, comfort, and productivity.

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    Green buildings provide environmental, economic, and social benefits. Environmentally, green buildings reduce negative impacts by using less water and energy, and can have positive impacts by generating their own energy or increasing biodiversity. Economically, green buildings offer cost savings through lower utility bills, construction costs, and operating expenses, as well as higher property values. Socially, green buildings improve occupant health, comfort, and productivity.

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    Green buildings provide environmental, economic, and social benefits. Environmentally, green buildings reduce negative impacts by using less water and energy, and can have positive impacts by generating their own energy or increasing biodiversity. Economically, green buildings offer cost savings through lower utility bills, construction costs, and operating expenses, as well as higher property values. Socially, green buildings improve occupant health, comfort, and productivity.

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    Green Buildings for 

    Quality Living
    Why is Green Building
    Important?
    The growth and development of our communities has a large impact on
    our natural environment. The manufacturing, design, construction and
    operation of the office buildings, homes and skyscrapers with tons of
    concrete, steel and other materials are contributing to pollution and
    energy use. 
    Buildings are one of the biggest consumer of energy and producer of
    greenhouse gases.  According to the National Institute of
    Building Sciences, USA, buildings generate 35% of the carbon dioxide.
    Since buildings are accountable for this scenario, it has imposed an
    immediate requirement to implement sustainability in every
    new construction instantly.
    Introduction
    Green building are designed to ensure they
    are healthy for its occupants by constructing
    or modifying structures which are
    environmentally responsible, sustainable
    and resource and energy efficient
    throughout their life cycle. This includes
    efficiently using energy, water and other
    natural resources, protecting occupant
    health, and reducing waste pollution and
    environmental degradation.
    • Efficient use of energy, water and other resources
    • Use of renewable energy
    • Pollution and waste reduction measures
    • The enabling of re-use and recycling
    Features of • Good indoor environmental air quality

    Green • Use of materials that are non-toxic, ethical and


    sustainable
    Building • Consideration of the environment and quality of life
    of occupants in design, construction and operation
    • A design that enables adaptation to a changing
    environment
    Taking an
    Safeguarding water
    intelligent
    resources
    approach to energy

    How can we Minimizing waste


    and maximizing
    reuse
    Promoting health
    and wellbeing

    make our
    buildings Keeping our
    Creating resilient

    green? environment green


    and flexible
    structures

    Connecting Considering all


    communities and stages of a
    people   building's life-cycle
    Taking an Intelligent
    Approach to Energy

    Minimizing Integrating
    Minimizing energy use Integrating renewable
    in all stages of a and low-carbon
    building’s life-cycle, technologies to supply
    making new and buildings’ energy needs,
    renovated buildings once their design
    more comfortable and has maximized inbuilt
    less expensive to run, and natural efficiencies. 
    and helping building
    users learn to be efficient
    too. 
    Safeguarding Exploring Considering
    Water Resources Exploring ways to improve drinking
    and waste water efficiency and
    Considering the impact of buildings
    and their surroundings on
    management, harvesting water for stormwater and drainage
    safe indoor use in innovative ways, infrastructure, ensuring these are
    and generally minimising water use not put under undue stress or
    in buildings. prevented from doing their job. 
    Minimizing Waste
    and Maximizing Reuse

    Reuse Materials
    Engaging building users Using fewer, more
    in reuse and recycling.  durable materials and
    generating less waste, as
    well as accounting for a
    building’s end of life
    stage by designing for
    demolition waste
    recovery and reuse. 
    Promoting
    • Bringing fresh air inside, delivering good indoor air quality
    through ventilation, and avoiding materials and chemicals that
    create harmful or toxic emissions.

    Health and • Incorporating natural light and views to ensure building users’
    comfort and enjoyment of their surroundings, and reducing

    Wellbeing lighting energy needs in the process.


    • Designing for ears as well as eyes. Acoustics and proper sound
    insulation play important roles in helping concentration,
    recuperation, and peaceful enjoyment of a building in
    educational, health and residential buildings.
    • Ensuring people are comfortable in their everyday environments,
    creating the right indoor temperature through passive design or
    building management and monitoring systems.
    Keeping our
    • Recognizing that our urban environment should preserve
    nature, and ensuring diverse wildlife and land quality are
    protected or enhanced, by, for example, remediating and

    Environment building on polluted land or creating new green spaces.


    • Looking for ways we can make our urban areas more

    Green productive, bringing agriculture into our cities.


    Creating Resilient and
    Flexible Structures

    • Adapting to our changing climate, ensuring


    resilience to events such as flooding,
    earthquakes or fires so that our buildings
    stand the test of time and keep people and
    their belongings safe. 
    • Designing flexible and dynamic spaces,
    anticipating changes in their use over time,
    and avoiding the need to demolish, rebuild
    or significantly renovate buildings to
    prevent them becoming obsolete. 
    Connecting Communities and
    People  
    • Creating diverse environments that connect and enhance
    communities, asking what a building will add to its context in terms of
    positive economic and social effects, and engaging local communities
    in planning.
    • Ensuring transport and distance to amenities are considered in design,
    reducing the impact of personal transport on the environment, and
    encouraging environmentally friendly options such as walking or
    cycling.
    • Exploring the potential of both ‘smart’ and information
    communications technologies to communicate better with the world
    around us, for example through smart electricity grids that understand
    how to transport energy where and when it is needed.
    Considering all stages of a
    building's life-cycle

    • Seeking to lower environmental impacts


    and maximize social and economic value
    over a building's whole life-cycle (from
    design, construction, operation and
    maintenance, through to renovation and
    eventual demolition).
    • Ensuring that embodied resources, such as
    the energy or water used to produce and
    transport the materials in the building are
    minimized so that buildings are truly low
    impact.
    The Benefits Of Green
    Buildings
    The Benefits Of Green Buildings
    • In the world, evidence is growing that green buildings bring multiple benefits.
    • They provide some of the most effective means to achieving a range of global goals, such as addressing
    climate change, creating sustainable and thriving communities, and driving economic growth.
    • The benefits of green buildings can be grouped within three categories: environmental, economic and social.
    Here, we provide a range of facts and statistics from various third-party sources that present these benefits.
    • Environmental 
    • Economical
    • Social
    Environmental Benefits
    • Green buildings can reduce or eliminate negative impacts on the environment, by using less
    water, energy or natural resources, also they can - in many cases - have a positive impact on the
    environment by generating their own energy or increasing biodiversity.
    Environmental Benefits
    • At a global level:
    • The building sector has the largest potential for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions compared to
    other major emitting sectors.
    • This emissions savings potential is said to be as much as 84 giga-tons of CO 2 by 2050, through direct
    measures in buildings such as energy efficiency, fuel switching and the use of renewable energy.
    • The building sector has the potential to make energy savings of 50% or more in 2050, in support of limiting
    global temperature rises to 2°C (above pre-industrial levels).
    • Research by UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program)
    Environmental Benefits Cont.
    • At a building level:
    • Green buildings achieving the Green Star certification in Australia have been shown to produce 62% fewer
    greenhouse gas emissions than average Australian buildings, and 51% less potable water than if they had
    been built to meet minimum industry requirements.
    • Green buildings certified by the Green Building Council (GBC) results in energy savings of 40 - 50% and water
    savings of 20 - 30% compared to conventional buildings.
    • Green buildings achieving the Green Star certification in South Africa have been shown to save on average
    between 30 - 40% energy and carbon emissions every year, and between 20 - 30% potable water every year,
    when compared to the industry norm.
    • Green buildings achieving the LEED certification in the US and other countries have been shown to  consume
    25 per cent less energy and 11 per cent less water, than non-green buildings.
    Economic Benefits
    • Green buildings offer a number of economic or financial benefits, which are relevant to a range of
    different people or groups of people. These include cost savings on utility bills for tenants or
    households (through energy and water efficiency); lower construction costs and higher property
    value for building developers; increased occupancy rates or operating costs for building owners;
    and job creation. 
    Economic Benefits
    • At a global level:
    • Global energy efficiency measures could save an estimated €280 to €410 billion in savings on energy
    spending and the equivalent to almost double the annual electricity consumption of the United States
    - European Commission, 2015.
    • At country level:
    • Canada’s green building industry generated $23.45 billion in GDP and represented nearly 300,000 full-time
    jobs in 2014 – Canada Green Building Council /  The Delphi Group, 2016.
    • Green building is projected to account for more than 3.3 million U.S. jobs by 2018 – US Green
    Building Council / Booz Allen Hamilton, 2015.
    • At a building level:
    • Building owners report that green buildings - whether new or renovated - command a 7 per cent increase in
    asset value over traditional buildings – Dodge Data & Analytics, 2016.
    Social Benefits
    • Green building benefits go beyond economics and the environment, and have been shown to bring positive
    social impacts too. Many of these benefits are around the health and wellbeing of people who work in green
    offices or live in green homes.
    • Workers in green, well-ventilated offices record a 101 per cent increase in cognitive scores (brain function).
    • Employees in offices with windows slept an average of 46 minutes more per night.
    • Research suggests that better indoor air quality (low concentrations of CO2 and pollutants, and
    high ventilation rates) can lead to improvements in performance of up to 8 per cent–Park and Yoon, 2011.
    • World GBC and the Green Building Council of South Africa established a joint project to develop a framework
    to enable complex socio-economic issues to be integrated into any green building rating system in the world.
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