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Desertation On Thesis: Topic: Green Building

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The document discusses the topic of green building. It defines green building as construction intended to produce environmental, health and economic benefits through using recycled materials, protecting natural resources, lowering energy consumption, and improving air/water quality and human health. The document outlines the principles of green building, including reducing energy use through passive solar, natural ventilation, and efficient appliances; minimizing pollution and environmental damage; reducing embodied energy and resource depletion through local sourcing; and minimizing internal pollution and damage to health.

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DESERTATION ON THESIS

TOPIC : GREEN BUILDING

BY

PRIYANSH PATHAK
B.ARCH ; 5th year
(9th semester)
3171606003
DIGNITY COLLEGE OF
ARCHITECTURE ,ANJORA
Abstract
Over the last two decades the
construction industry has made
efforts to develop green building
practices. Researchers within the
field have provided theoretical
knowledge on how to design green
buildings and analytical
environmental management tools
have been developed to guide the
practitioners. Information campaigns
have raised the general
environmental awareness among
building practitioners.

In the dessertation discussions revolves arround the


term “green building” that is increasingly used in
construction and can have multiple meanings. In a broad
sense, however, “green building” refers to construction
that is intended to produce environmental, health and
economic benefits and can take a variety of forms. It can
include the use of recycled materials; the protection and
preservation of a construction site’s existing natural
resources; designing buildings to lower their operational
energy consumption; improving air and water quality; and
easing a building’s impact on human health and the
environment.

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In addition to the environmental and other
societal benefits, green building can provide
economic benefits to contractors. For example,
according to the Department of Energy,
the use of green construction techniques can
lower material costs and reduce unnecessary
waste. Additionally, although most green
building planning and decisions are made by
developers, owners and architects, contractors
will increasingly be called upon to provide
recommendations and practices on what green
building materials, products and designs might
be best for the particular project. Also, state and
local governments are increasingly requiring the
use of green

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1. Introduction

A robust high performance buildings


movement to rethink the built environment
is rapidly emerging and affecting the
design, construction, and operation of new
buildings; changing the renovation
process for existing buildings; and
reshaping cities and communities. n many
countries around the world, the
movement. is growing at an explosive rate

CONCEPT :
 Sustainable or high performance
Building.
 Buildings and their sites use and
 harvest energy, water, and materials
efficiently.
 Human health and Environment is
protected and restored during entire
building life - cycle. i.e. sitting, design,
construction, operation, maintenance,
renovation and deconstruction.

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Robert and Brenda Vale say:“that a green approach
to the built environment involves a holistic
approach to the design of buildings; that all the
resources that go into a building, be they
materials, fuels or the contribution of the users
need to be considered if a sustainable
architecture is to be produced.”
Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan thought
“infuse the design of products,buildings and
landscapes with a rich and detailed understanding of
ecology.”

The Building Services Research and Information


Association(BSRIA),mainstream construction industry
body, defines sustainable construction as
“the creation and responsible management of a
healthy built environment based on resource efficient
and ecological principles”

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2. What is a Green Building?
We assume that buildings are green if they look hand
made and are built of natural materials but working in
aluminium and glass might in the long run create a
more genuinely sustainable architecture

For a building to be green it is essential for the


environmental impact of all its constituent parts and
design decisions to be evaluated. This is a much
more thorough exercise than simply adding a few
green elements such as a grass roof or a solar panel
in a building can’t make a building green.

The purpose of promoting this is for occupant health


and resource efficiency plus minimizing the impacts
of the built environment on the natural environment.
In the context of green buildings, resource efficiency
means high levels of energy and water efficiency,
appropriate use of land and landscaping, the use of
environmentally friendly materials, and minimizing the
life cycle effects of the building’s design and
operation.

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A green building is designed to use less energy
and water and consider the life cycle of the
materials used. This is achieved through better
site development practices, design,
construction, operation, maintenance, removal
and possible reuse of materials

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3. History

Prior to addressing the details of green building, it is


useful to know about the roots of this movement, both
technically and philosophically. Green building in the
U.S. has two distinct histories, one that emerged in
the 1990s and the roots of the movement that can be
traced back to the 19th century. Rachel Carson’s
book Silent Spring, the efforts of a wide range of early
environmentalists such as Barry Commoner, Lester
Brown, and others laid the foundation for these
events.
The oil shocks of the early 1970’s, a result of the
Arab-Israeli conflicts of that era, marked the first
serious concern about resources, more specifically
American reliance on oil. The result was an explosion
of interest in energy efficiency, solar technologies,
retrofitting homes and commercial buildings with
insulation, and energy recovery systems. The federal
government provided tax credits for solar energy
investments and innovative technologies as wide-
ranging as solar air-conditioning and eutectic salt
energy storage batteries were developed and tested

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4. Buildings and the
environment

At the start of the 21st Century we are faced with


human activities are having an enormous effect on
the environment, ecological systems, and even on
humans themselves. More than any other human
endeavor, the built environment has direct, complex,
and long-lasting impacts on the biosphere. Materials
impacts alone are enormous.
The distribution of the built environment and the
consequent need to rely on automobiles for
movement between work, home, school, and shopping
result in disproportionate generation of carbon dioxide.
Transportation consumes about 40% of primary energy.
Climate change is just one of several effects
that should be worrisome to humanity. Others include
loss of biodiversity, loss of topsoil, depletion of major
fisheries, toxification of soil, water, and air due to the
release of tens of thousands of synthetic chemicals,
some of which mimic natural hormones, causing
havoc in both animal and human reproductive
systems.

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5. Principles of green
building construction

(a) Reducing Energy in Use


(b) Minimizing External Pollution and
Environmental Damage
(c) Reducing Embodied Energy and Resource
Depletion
(d) Minimizing Internal Pollution and Damage to
Health

(a) Reducing Energy in Use:


for example
 Use maximum possible thermal comfort, but
with good ventilation.
 Use low energy lighting and electrical
appliances.
 Use efficient, low pollution heating.
 Make use of passive and active solar energy
wherever feasible.
 Use passive and natural ventilation systems
rather than mechanical.

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(b) Minimizing External Pollution and
Environmental Damage
for example
 Design in harmonious relationship with the
surroundings
 Avoid destruction of natural resource.
 Re-use rainwater on site
 Treat and recycle waste water on site if
possible
 Try to minimize extraction of materials
unless good environmental controls exist
and avoid materials which produce
damaging chemicals as a by product
 Do not dump waste materials off site but re-
use on site

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(c) Reducing Embodied Energy and
Resource Depletion
for example
 Use locally sourced materials
 Use materials found on site
 Minimize use of imported materials
 Use materials from sustainably managed
sources
 Keep use of materials of non renewable
sources to a minimum
 Use second hand/recycled materials where
appropriate
 Re-use existing buildings and structures
instead of always assuming that new
buildings are required

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d) Minimizing Internal Pollution and Damage
to Health
for example
 Use non toxic material, or low emission
materials
 Avoid fibres from insulation materials getting
into the atmosphere
 Ensure good natural ventilation
 Reduce dust and allergents
 Reduce impact of electromagnetic fields
(EMFs)
 Create positive character in the building and
relationship with site
 Involve users in design and management of
building and evaluating environmental
choices

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Materials that are low in embodied energy i.e.
the energy required to extract and produce them
as well as to deliver them to a building site;
Natural materials, such as bamboo that can be
easily replenished ;
Efficient lighting systems that take advantages of
daylight to reduce electricity needs or include
sensors and timers that shut off light’s when not
in use
Water systems that collect rainwater or treat
water(from sinks & showers) so that it can be
used in gardens or toilets;
Strategies to insure that a house will have a long
live because it is comfortable to spend time in,
architecturally significant or adaptable to future
uses;
Recycled materials and even existing
foundations or building shells;
Wood from stocks that are sustainably managed

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6. Characteristics

• A super-efficient building envelope, including


operable, low-emissivity, high performance
windows, reduces heating and cooling loads.
• Natural ventilation is used instead of
mechanical cooling.
• South-facing windows provide passive-solar
heat gain and daylighting.
• Open, unobstructed interior spaces allow for
effective daylighting.
• Energy-effi cient lighting is coupled with
daylight dimming and automated
controls to reduce lighting energy use.
• The effi cient air-handling system includes a
heat-recovery system, to capture
some of the energy in outgoing ventilation air.
• Many building materials were salvaged;
others have high recycled content.
• Rainwater is harvested and stored for
landscape irrigation.

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7. Benefits of study

Economic benefits
• Reduce operating costs
• Create, expand, and shape markets for
green product and services
• Improve occupant productivity
• Optimize life-cycle economic
Performance

Social benefits
• Enhance occupant comfort and health
• Heighten aesthetic qualities
• Minimise strain on local infrastructure
• Improve overall quality of life

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8. Goals

1. Siting and structure design efficiency


2. Waste reduction
3. Energy efficiency
4. Water efficiency
5. Materials efficiency
6. Indoor environmental quality enhancement
7. Operations and maintenance optimization

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9. LEED rating system
The LEED rating system is a form of an “eco-label”
that describes the environmental attributes of the
project. The essence of LEED, and its particular
genius, is a point-based rating system that allows
vastly different green building measures to be
compared with one resulting aggregate score. LEED
accomplishes this by rating all buildings across five
categories of concern using key environmental
attributes in each category. The five major issues for
rating green buildings are creating sustainable sites,
conserving water, conserving energy, using materials
and resources efficiently and ensuring good indoor
environmental quality. LEED believes that best practices
are better shown by results (outcomes) not by efforts alone
(inputs).
• Certified40 percent of the basic or “core” points in the
system
• Silver50 percent of the core points
• Gold60 percent of the core points
• Platinum80 percent of the core points

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Category of Issues Evaluated by the LEED System
Concern
1. Sustainable Site selection, land use, transportation, site impacts of
sites construction,
stormwater management, urban heat island effect and nighttime
light pollution.

2. Water Water conservation in landscape irrigation and building


efficiency fiixtures
3. Energy use Energy-conserving building operations, renewable energy
reduction and systems, building commissioning, reduced use of ozone-
atmosphere depleting chemicals n HVAC systems, energy monitoring and
protection green power use

4. Materials and Use of existing buildings; facilitating recycling by building


resource occupants; construction waste recycling; use of salvaged
conservation materials, recycledcontent
materials, locally and regionally produced materials,
agricultural-based materials and certifi ed wood products.

5. Indoor Improved ventilation and indoor air quality; use of nontoxic fi


environmental nishes and furniture; green housekeeping; daylighting and
quality views to the
outdoors; thermal comfort; and individual control of lighting
and
HVAC systems.

6. Innovation and Exemplary performance in exceeding LEED standards and use


design of innovative approaches to green design; use of LEED
process Accredited
Professionals.

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10.
Aim

 To study concept and standards of green


building.

 to study and educate others about best


practices, principles materials, techniques of
building green.

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11. Scope

1. The study will mainly focus on the theory of


term green in architecture.

2. The study will mainly focus on concept of


building in terms of material and
techniques used.

3. The study will also focus briefly on the


inventions related to the topic.

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12. Limitation

 The study is in itself is a very vast subject and


due to limited facilities ,& source the study is
based on the articles and websites.

 Due to the limitation of time, can only go


through the basic studies about the topic.

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Reference

Books :
Marketing green building services : Strategies for
Success - Jerry Yudelson
.Green. Building Through Integrated. Design ;
McGraw-Hill Professional
Greening,.Your.Home.Sustainable.Options.for.Ever
y.System.In.Your.House ; McGraw-Hill
Professional
Green building case studies

Websites :
 http://www.arch.columbia.edu/
 http://www.designresilience.com/
 http://www.howstuffworks.com/
 http://solargreenenergy.blogspot.com/
 http://solargreenenergy.blogspot.com/
 www.wikipedia.com/

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Yale University Sculpture Building & Gallery,
New Haven,
Yale’s 51,000-square-foot Sculpture Building &
Gallery houses the undergraduate sculpture
program of the School of Art. The $52.6 million,
three-story building includes a gallery,
administrative offices, classrooms, and machine
shops. A sophisticated indoor air quality system
continuously tests for indoor air pollutants, then
flushes and recirculates the air as needed. A
unique curtain wall system combined with solar
shading reduces heat gain through the glass
façade by about 30 percent. Over 90 percent of
the gallery’s roof is vegetated.

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