Green Building is a sustainable building with high efficiency in resource usage (energy, water, and materials) while reducing impacts on health and environment during its lifecycle through good building practices.
A Green building is designed, constructed, and operated to minimize the total environmental impacts while enhancing user comfort, and productivity”. Green buildings preserve precious natural resources and improve our quality of life.
A green building is one which uses less water, optimizes energy efficiency, conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provides healthier spaces for occupants, as compared to a conventional building.
There are a number of features that can make a building ‘green’. These include:
✓ Efficient use of energy, water, and other resources.
✓ Use of renewable energy, such as solar energy.
✓ Pollution and waste reduction measures, and the enabling of re-use and recycling.
✓ Good indoor environmental air quality.
✓ Use of materials that are non-toxic, ethical, and sustainable.
✓ Consideration of the environment in design, construction, and operation
✓ Consideration of the quality of life of occupants in design, construction, and operation.
✓ A design that enables adaptation to a changing environment.
