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\"\"Green Building<\/a><\/strong>, also known as green construction or sustainable building, is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and deconstruction. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort.Although new technologies are constantly being developed to complement current practices in creating greener structures, the common objective is that green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:\u2022 Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources\u2022 Protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity\u2022 Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradationA 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 topics include sustainable design, green architecture, and energy efficient buildings.The green building movement<\/strong> originated due to need and desire for more energy efficient and environmentally friendly construction practices. There are a number of motives to building green, including environmental, economic, and social benefits. However, modern sustainability initiatives call for an integrated and synergistic design to both new construction and in the retrofitting of an existing structure. Also known as sustainable design, this approach integrates the building life-cycle with each green practice employed with a design-purpose to create a synergy amongst the practices used.Green building<\/strong> brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings<\/a> on the environment and human health. It often emphasizes taking advantage of renewable resources, e.g., using sunlight through passive solar, active solar, and photovoltaic techniques and using plants and trees through green roofs, rain gardens, and for reduction of rainwater run-off. Many other techniques, such as using packed gravel or permeable concrete instead of conventional concrete or asphalt to enhance replenishment of ground water, are used as well.While the practices, or technologies, employed in green building<\/strong> are constantly evolving and may differ from region to region, there are fundamental principles that persist from which the method is derived: Siting and Structure Design Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, Materials Efficiency, Indoor Environmental Quality Enhancement, Operations and Maintenance Optimization, and Waste and Toxics Reduction. The essence of green building is an optimization of one or more of these principles. Also, with the proper synergistic design, individual green building technologies may work together to produce a greater cumulative effect.On the aesthetic side of green architecture or sustainable design is the philosophy of designing a building that is in harmony with the natural features and resources surrounding the site. There are several key steps in designing sustainable buildings: specify ‘green’ building materials from local sources, reduce loads, optimize systems, and generate on-site renewable energy.Siting and Structure Design Efficiency<\/strong>The foundation of any construction project is rooted in the concept and design stages. The concept stage, in fact, is one of the major steps in a project life cycle, as it has the largest impact on cost and performance. In designing environmentally optimal buildings, the objective function aims at minimizing the total environmental impact associated with all life-cycle stages of the building project. However, building as a process is not as streamlined as an industrial process, and varies from one building to the other, never repeating itself identically. In addition, buildings are much more complex products, composed of a multitude of materials and components each constituting various design variables to be decided at the design stage. A variation of every design variable may affect the environment during all the building’s relevant life-cycle stages.Creating sustainable buildings starts with proper site selection. The location of a building affects a wide range of environmental factors – such as security, accessibility, and energy consumption, as well as the energy consumed by transportation needs of occupants for commuting, the impact on local ecosystems, and the use\/reuse of existing structures and infrastructures. If possible, locating buildings in areas of existing development where infrastructure already exists and conserving resources by renovating existing buildings will help minimize a project’s environmental footprint.Maximizing the green impact of site design and building infrastructure may be accomplished by considering energy implications during site selection and the design of building orientation. Improved grading and natural landscaping practices can help control erosion as well as reduce heat islands. Incorporating transportation solutions along with site plans that acknowledge the need for bicycle parking, carpool staging, and proximity to mass transit can help encourage alternatives to traditional commuting and reduce both energy consumption and waste emissionsEnergy Efficiency<\/strong>Green buildings<\/strong> often include measures to reduce energy use. To increase the efficiency of the building envelope, (the barrier between conditioned and unconditioned space), they may use high-efficiency windows and insulation in walls, ceilings, and floors. Another strategy, passive solar building design, is often implemented in low-energy homes. Designers orient windows and walls and place awnings, porches, and trees to shade windows and roofs during the summer while maximizing solar gain in the winter. In addition, effective window placement (day lighting) can provide more natural light and lessen the need for electric lighting during the day. Solar water heating further reduces energy loads.On site generation of renewable energy through solar power, wind power, hydro power, or biomass can significantly reduce the environmental impact of the building. Power generation is generally the most expensive feature to add to a building.Water Efficiency<\/strong>Reducing water consumption and protecting water quality are key objectives in sustainable building. One critical issue of water consumption is that in many areas of the country, the demands on the supplying aquifer exceed its ability to replenish itself. To the maximum extent feasible, facilities should increase their dependence on water that is collected, used, purified, and reused on-site. The protection and conservation of water throughout the life of a building may be accomplished by designing for dual plumbing that recycles water in toilet flushing. Waste-water may be minimized by utilizing water conserving fixtures such as ultra-low flush toilets and low-flow shower heads. Point of use water treatment and heating improves both water quality and energy efficiency while reducing the amount of water in circulation. The use of non-sewage and grey-water for on-site use such as site-irrigation will minimize demands on the local aquifer.Materials Efficiency<\/strong>Building materials typically considered to be ‘green’ include rapidly renewable plant materials like bamboo (because bamboo grows quickly) and straw, lumber from forests certified to be sustainably managed, ecology blocks, dimension stone, recycled stone, recycled metal, and other products that are non-toxic, reusable, renewable, and\/or recyclable (e.g. Trass, Linoleum, sheep wool, panels made from paper flakes, compressed earth block, adobe, baked earth, rammed earth, clay, vermiculite, flax linen, sisal, seagrass, cork, expanded clay grains, coconut, wood fibre plates, calcium sand stone, concrete (high and ultra high performance, roman self-healing concrete, etc.) The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) also suggests using recycled industrial goods, such as coal combustion products, foundry sand, and demolition debris in construction projects. Polyurethane heavily reduces carbon emissions as well. Polyurethane blocks are being used instead of CMTs by companies like American Insulock. Polyurethane blocks provide more speed, less cost, and they are environmentally friendly. Building materials should be extracted and manufactured locally to the building site to minimize the energy embedded in their transportation. Where possible, building elements should be manufactured off-site and delivered to site, to maximize benefits of off-site manufacture including minimizing waste, maximizing recycling (because manufacture is in one location), high quality elements, better OHS management, less noise and dust.Indoor Environmental Quality Enhancement<\/strong>The Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) category in LEED standards, one of the five environmental categories, was created to provide comfort, well-being, and productivity of occupants. The LEED IEQ category addresses design and construction guidelines especially: indoor air quality (IAQ), thermal quality, and lighting quality.Indoor Air Quality seeks to reduce volatile organic compounds, or VOC’s, such as microbial contaminants. Buildings rely on a properly designed HVAC system to provide adequate ventilation and air filtration as well as isolate operations (kitchens, dry cleaners, etc.) from other occupancies. During the design and construction process choosing construction materials and interior finish products with zero or low emissions will improve IAQ. Many building materials and cleaning\/maintenance products emit toxic gases, such as VOC’s and formaldehyde. These gases can have a detrimental impact on occupants’ health and productivity as well. Avoiding these products will increase a building’s IEQ.Personal temperature and airflow control over the HVAC system coupled with a properly designed building envelope will also aid in increasing a building’s thermal quality. Creating a high performance luminous environment through the careful integration of natural and artificial light sources will improve on the lighting quality of a structure.Operations and Maintenance Optimization<\/strong>No matter how sustainable a building may have been in its design and construction, it can only remain so if it is operated responsibly and maintained properly. Ensuring operations and maintenance (O&M) personnel are part of the project’s planning and development process will help retain the green criteria designed at the onset of the project. Every aspect of green building is integrated into the O&M phase of a building’s life. The addition of new green technologies also falls on the O&M staff. Although the goal of waste reduction may be applied during the design, construction and demolition phases of a building’s life-cycle, it is in the O&M phase that green practices such as recycling and air quality enhancement take place.Waste Reduction<\/strong>Green architecture also seeks to reduce waste of energy, water and materials used during construction. For example, in California nearly 60% of the state’s waste comes from commercial buildings. During the construction phase, one goal should be to reduce the amount of material going to landfills. Well-designed buildings also help reduce the amount of waste generated by the occupants as well, by providing on-site solutions such as compost bins to reduce matter going to landfills.To reduce the impact on wells or water treatment plants, several options exist. ‘Greywater’, waste water from sources such as dish washing or washing machines, can be used for subsurface irrigation, or if treated, for non-potable purposes, e.g., to flush toilets and wash cars. Rainwater collectors are used for similar purposes.Centralized waste water treatment systems can be costly and use a lot of energy. An alternative to this process is converting waste and waste water into fertilizer, which avoids these costs and shows other benefits. By collecting human waste at the source and running it to a semi-centralized bio gas plant with other biological waste, liquid fertilizer can be produced. This concept was demonstrated by a settlement in Lubeck Germany in the late 1990s. Practices like these provide soil with organic nutrients and create carbon sinks that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, offsetting greenhouse gas emission. Producing artificial fertilizer is also more costly in energy than this process.Source: wikipeiaWhat is Indian Green Building Council?<\/strong>Indian Green Building Council (<\/strong>IGBC) is a part of CII-Godrej Green Business Centre, which is actively involved in promoting the Green Building movement in India. The council is represented by all stakeholders of construction industry comprising of corporate, government & nodal agencies, architects, product manufacturers, institutions, etc. The council is industry-led, consensus-based and member-driven. The vision of the council is to serve as single point solution provider and be a key engine to facilitate all Green Building activities in India.IGBC Green Homes Rating System<\/strong>Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) Green Homes is the first rating programme developed in India, exclusively for the residential sector. It is based on accepted energy and environmental principles and strikes a balance between known established practices and emerging concepts. The system is designed to be comprehensive in scope, yet simple in operation.Benefits of Green Homes<\/strong>A Green Home can have tremendous benefits, both tangible and intangible. The immediate and most tangible benefit is in the reduction in water and operating energy costs right from day one, during the entire life cycle of the building.Tangible benefits <\/strong>Energy savings : 20 – 30 %Water savings : 30 – 50%Intangible benefits <\/strong>Enhanced air quality,Excellent day lighting,Health & well being of the occupants,Conservation of scarce national resourcesEnhance marketability for the project.Eligibility <\/strong>IGBC Green Homes Rating System is a measurement system designed for rating new residential buildings which include construction categories such asIndividual homesHigh rise residential apartments,Gated communitiesRow housesExisting residential buildings which retrofit and redesigned in accordance with theIGBC Green Homes criteria.The project team can evaluate all the possible points to apply under the rating system using a suitable checklist. The project can apply for IGBC Green Homes certification if it can meet all mandatory requirements and achieve the minimum required points.IGBC Green Homes Rating System and other resources <\/strong>The rating system describes in detail goal, compliance options, documentation required and approach and methodologies for each credit under each module.IGBC Green Factory Building rating system <\/strong>With the advancement of green building<\/strong> movement in India, many companies have evinced keen interest in having a holistic green design and construction framework for upcoming factory buildings. IGBC, in its endeavor to extend green building concepts to all building types has developed the IGBC Green Factory Building rating system. IGBC Green Factory Building rating system is the first of its kind addressing sustainability in industrial buildings. The programme is fundamentally designed to address national priorities and quality of life for factory workmen.IGBC Green Factory Building Rating System is a voluntary and consensus based programme. The rating system has been developed based on the contemporary materials and technologies. This rating system would facilitate the development of green factories. The rating system evaluates certain credit points using a prescriptive approach and other credits on a performance based approach. The rating system is evolved so as to be comprehensive and at the same time user-friendly.This is an excellent opportunity for projects to participate in the pilot rating programme. The learning from the pilot rating programme would influence in developing a robust rating system. The pilot projects play an important role in evaluating the results achieved by the pilot projects and the criteria established in the rating programme.LEED India<\/strong>The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED-INDIA) Green Building Rating System is a nationally and internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.LEED-INDIA provides building owners, architects, consultants, developers, facility managers and project managers the tools they need to design, construct and operate green buildings.LEED-INDIA promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in the following five key areas:Sustainable site developmentWater savingsEnergy efficiencyMaterials selection andIndoor environmental qualityLEED-INDIA rating system provides a road map for measuring and documenting success for every building type and phase of a building life-cycle.Specific LEED-INDIA programs include:<\/strong>LEED India for New Construction (LEED India NC)LEED India for Core and Shell (LEED India CS)Green Building Materials<\/strong>The concept of sustainable building incorporates and integrates a variety of strategies during the design, construction and operation of building projects. The use of green building<\/strong> materials and products represents one important strategy in the design of a building.Green building materials offer specific benefits to the building owner and building occupants:\u2022 Reduced maintenance\/replacement costs over the life of the building.\u2022 Energy conservation.\u2022 Improved occupant health and productivity.\u2022 Lower costs associated with changing space configurations.\u2022 Greater design flexibility.Building and construction activities worldwide consume 3 billion tons of raw materials each year or 40% of total global use (Roodman and Lenssen, 1995). Using green building materials and products promotes conservation of dwindling nonrenewable resources internationally. In addition, integrating green building materials into building projects can help reduce the environmental impacts associated with the extraction, transport, processing, fabrication, installation, reuse, recycling, and disposal of these building industry source materials.Green building materials are composed of renewable, rather than nonrenewable resources. Green materials are environmentally responsible because impacts are considered over the life of the product (Spiegel and Meadows, 1999). Depending upon project-specific goals, an assessment of green materials may involve an evaluation of one or more of the criteria listed below.Green building material\/product selection criteria<\/strong>This information was based on Lynn Froeschle’s article, “Environmental Assessment and Specification of Green Building Materials” (Adobe PDF, 1.4 MB), in the October 1999 issue of The Construction Specifier, a publication for members of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI). Selection criteria similar to what is presented below was also used for the East End Project as identified in the Review of Construction Projects Using Sustainable Materials.Overall material\/product selection criteria:\u2022 Resource efficiency\u2022 Indoor air quality\u2022 Energy efficiency\u2022 Water conservation\u2022 AffordabilityResource Efficiency can be accomplished by utilizing materials that meet the following criteria:\u2022 Recycled Content: Products with identifiable recycled content, including postindustrial content with a preference for post consumer content.\u2022 Natural, plentiful or renewable: Materials harvested from sustainably managed sources and preferably have an independent certification (e.g., certified wood) and are certified by an independent third party.\u2022 Resource efficient manufacturing process: Products manufactured with resource-efficient processes including reducing energy consumption, minimizing waste (recycled, recyclable and or source reduced product packaging), and reducing greenhouse gases.\u2022 Locally available: Building materials, components, and systems found locally or regionally saving energy and resources in transportation to the project site.\u2022 Salvaged, refurbished, or re-manufactured: Includes saving a material from disposal and renovating, repairing, restoring, or generally improving the appearance, performance, quality, functionality, or value of a product.\u2022 Reusable or recyclable: Select materials that can be easily dismantled and reused or recycled at the end of their useful life.\u2022 Recycled or recyclable product packaging: Products enclosed in recycled content or recyclable packaging.\u2022 Durable: Materials that are longer lasting or are comparable to conventional products with long life expectancies.Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is enhanced by utilizing materials that meet the following criteria:\u2022 Low or non-toxic: Materials that emit few or no carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, or irritants as demonstrated by the manufacturer through appropriate testing.\u2022 Minimal chemical emissions: Products that have minimal emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Products that also maximize resource and energy efficiency while reducing chemical emissions.\u2022 Low-VOC assembly: Materials installed with minimal VOC-producing compounds, or no-VOC mechanical attachment methods and minimal hazards.\u2022 Moisture resistant: Products and systems that resist moisture or inhibit the growth of biological contaminants in buildings.\u2022 Healthfully maintained: Materials, components, and systems that require only simple, non-toxic, or low-VOC methods of cleaning.\u2022 Systems or equipment: Products that promote healthy IAQ by identifying indoor air pollutants or enhancing the air quality.Materials, components, and systems that help reduce energy consumption in buildings and facilities.Energy Efficiency can be maximized by utilizing materials and systems that meet the following criteria:Water Conservation can be obtained by utilizing materials and systems that meet the following criteria:\u2022 Products and systems that help reduce water consumption in buildings and conserve water in landscaped areas. (See Green Building Basics for more information.)Affordability can be considered when building product life-cycle costs are comparable to conventional materials or as a whole, are within a project-defined percentage of the overall budget.Three basic steps of product selection<\/strong>Product selection can begin after the establishment of project-specific environmental goals. The environmental assessment process for building products involves three basic steps.\u2022 Research\u2022 Evaluation\u2022 SelectionResearch This step involves gathering all technical information to be evaluated, including manufacturers’ information such as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) test data, product warranties, source material characteristics, recycled content data, environmental statements, and durability information. In addition, this step may involve researching other environmental issues, building codes, government regulations, building industry articles, model green building product specifications, and other sources of product data. Research helps identify the full range of the project\u2019s building material options.Evaluation This step involves confirmation of the technical information, as well as filling in information gaps. For example, the evaluator may request product certifications from manufacturers to help sort out possible exaggerated environmental product claims. Evaluation and assessment is relatively simple when comparing similar types of building materials using the environmental criteria, e.g., a recycled content assessment between various manufacturers of medium density fiberboard is a relatively straightforward “apples to apples” comparison. However, the evaluation process is more complex when comparing different products with the same function. Then it may become necessary to process both descriptive and quantitative forms of data.A life cycle assessment (LCA) is an evaluation of the relative “greenness” of building materials and products. LCA addresses the impacts of a product through all of its life stages. Although rather simple in principle, this approach has been difficult and expensive in actual practice (although that appears to be changing).One tool that uses the LCA methodology is BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software. It allows users to balance the environmental and economic performance of building products. The software was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Building and Fire Research Laboratory and can be downloaded free on their Web site.Selection This step often involves the use of an evaluation matrix for scoring the project-specific environmental criteria. The total score of each product evaluation will indicate the product with the highest environmental attributes. Individual criteria included in the rating system can be weighted to accommodate project-specific goals and objectives.What is a \u2018Green Building<\/strong>\u2019? What makes it different from a conventional building? Why are corporates going in for these green buildings? How important is it for us to live in a green building? How expensive are these green building technologies? The list of questions around this buzzword \u2018Green Buildings\u2019 is significantly huge and the answers are not only simple but also provoke us to take a pledge to \u2018Go Green\u2019.A number of organizations have recently been set up to promote this concept. Dr PC Jain, chairman of India Green Building Council (IGBC), recently said at a seminar, \u201cGreen building is a concept fast catching the fancy of people across the world, and India is no exception.Although the concept has come in an entirely new avatar, it is not as novel as being considered by many. The biggest advantage of a green building<\/strong> is if it is designed well, this may accrue life-long benefits at small makeup costs. As socialists, our effort is to promote the concept of sustainable development that is in harmony with nature while keeping intact the traditions and practices of ancient India.\u201dIGBC estimates the demand for green building<\/strong> materials and equipment will reach $4 billion per annum by 2010. Industry experts feel that in tune with the global trend to protect environment, the number of green building projects in India may go up from the current 164 to over 2,000 by 2012.\u2018Green Building\u2019 technology<\/strong> is a futuristic idea for the planet and is pro life. It is inspired from various elements of nature and innovatively designed to generate significant economic and health advantages to us. It takes us closer to nature by bringing nature closer to home. In fact, it makes the whole growth story of mankind sustainable.Some of the facets of green buildings are<\/strong>: heat reduction insulated roofs and walls that substantially reduce heat ingress (up to 60%) thereby resulting in lower AC loads; cross ventilation with fresh breeze; goodbye to high energy costs (up to 40%); solar lighting is safe for people as well as the planet; 100% natural light all across, thereby cutting down usage of artificial light by 50%.Healthy indoors: One can enjoy healthy living with innovative solid waste management, waste segregation system and nature-friendly infrastructural facilities. Recycling to conserve nature: Owners can take pride in being a responsible citizen and make the most of \u20180% discharge building\u2019.Vidur Bharadwaj, director of \u2018The 3C Company\u2019 and chairman IGBC, Delhi Chapter, says, \u201cI found the quality of buildings in this part of the world was largely not respecting environment. There was a need to make people aware of sustainable development that will drive them to use green buildings and benefit from a better living environment.\u201dVidur is the only architect who has to his credit two Platinum Rated LEED certified Green Buildings \u2014 PATNI Campus in Noida and WIPRO Campus in Gurgaon.While voluntarily teaching at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, Vidur shared with the future generation of architects the philosophy of green architecture:- Generally the cost difference while raising a green building is approximately between 5% and 8% more than a conventional building but the investor recovers costs within 3 years.- Not only do green buildings consume less energy to build but also reduce running costs of buildings up to 35-40%.- In a study in Australia it was found that by working in green buildings, productivity of the people had gone up, sickness reduced by 20% making it a much healthier environment to work or live in.Vidur also enumerated a few general practices that make for a green building like double glazing, AAC block with insulation on external peripheral brick wall, roof insulation, vertical and horizontal sun shading, orientation of building as per sun path diagram, high performance chillers, pre-cooling and free-cooling, among others. According to Vidur, a team of 350 professionals is working to add on another contribution towards their pledge to reduce the carbon footprint on earth. After working on two Platinum Rated LEED Certified Green Buildings in the NCR, this team is all set to now usher in India\u2019s largest green residential project in Sector 100, Noida. Officials sayThe 3C Company has already set very high standards and createdbenchmarks in the concept of green construction and pledged to reduce the carbon footprint while developing such projects. They say these sustainable developments not only use far less natural resources and energy in the way they are built but are also more durable and require less maintenance.Some reputed brands that have gone \u2018Green\u2019 along with The 3C Company are Sapient, Accenture, Nokia Siemens Network, Pearson, etc. ITC Building in Gurgaon, Wipro Campus in Gurgaon, Patni Campus in Noida, Green Boulevard in Noida, Knowledge Boulevard at Noida are a few green buildings in the NCR.List of Registered IGBC Green Homes Projects in Pune:<\/strong>Akruti Country Woods Akruti City 34773 PuneAmit’s Bloomfield Phase-I Amit Enterprises Housing Ltd. 65032 PuneLush County I-Ven Kolte-Patil Project (Pune) Pvt Ltd 126028 PuneMahindra Royale Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited 35990 PuneMegapolis Kumar Properties 139364 PunePark Infinia Kumar Properties 3642 PuneWADI Mr Jitendra R Tanti 3716 PuneSource: www.igbc.in\u0437\u0430\u0439\u043c \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0443 \u0431\u0435\u0437 \u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430\u0437\u043e\u0432 \u043a\u0440\u0443\u0433\u043b\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u043e<\/a>\u0432\u0437\u044f\u0442\u044c \u043a\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0442 \u043e\u043d\u043b\u0430\u0439\u043d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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