GREEN BUILDING

CONTENT

 WHAT IS GREEN BUILDING?

 THE CONCEPT
 HISTORY AND COMPONENTS OF GREEN BUILDING
 ENERGY AND ATMOSPHERE
 Internally reflected light
 Direct Sunlight
 Diffused light (Reflected from /sky light)
 Externally Reflected light
 Trombe Wall
 Water Wall
 Trans Wall
 INDOOR ENVIRONMENT QUALITY
 Wind Towers
 Induced Ventilation
 Earth Air Pipe System
 IMPACTS OF CONVENTIONAL BUILDINGS THAT GREEN BUILDINGS SEEK TO RECTIFY
 GREEN BUILDING RATING SYSTEM – KEY AREAS
 REFERENCE
1. WHAT IS GREEN BUILDING?
Green Building refers to the incorporation of
environment friendly and resource efficient
processes at each stage of construction, right
from site selection and designing to
construction, operation followed by
maintenance, renovation or even demolition.
The endeavour is to seek minimum possible
impact on environment.
Green building is not new. Humans been
building with local materials such as mud, straw,
wood, and stone, and using renewable energy
from the sun, the wind, and water for thousands
of years.
Today, green building is the practice of
designing, constructing, and operating buildings
to:
 Minimize resource use
 Reduce waste and negative
environmental impacts
 Maximize occupant health and
productivity
 Decrease life cycle costs
A green building:
 Makes efficient use of land, materials,
energy, and water
 Generates minimal or no waste
 Provides a healthy indoor environment
for its occupants
 Restores, improves, or enhances the
natural environment
2. THE CONCEPT
Concentrates mainly on two points:
 Increasing the efficiency with which buildings
use energy, water and materials
 Reducing building impacts of human health
and the environment, through better site
selection, design, construction, operation,
maintenance, and removal throughout the
complete life cycle.
3. HISTORY AND COMPONENTS OF
GREEN BUILDING
The increase of fuel costs in 1970’s along with
the concern for environment kindled the
awareness and encouragement towards Green
Buildings. Architects and ecologists started
looking for solutions like reflective roofing
materials, triple-glazed windows to achieve
energy savings. But with the decrease of fuel
prices, the Green movement was slowed down
and did not receive much encouragement. It
was later in early 90’s that the movement got
kick start and awareness began to spread about
need for sustainable buildings. An official Green
home building program started in Austin, Texas
in 1991. The movement has gradually gained
momentum since then and we can now find
significant changes in the newer buildings.
4. ENERGY AND ATMOSPHERE
 Eliminate the use of CFCs
(chlorofluorocarbons) in new heating,
ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration
(HVAC & R) systems.
 Development of design strategies to provide
room for natural lighting. Also, passive
design strategies like passive solar design,
building’s shape and orientation are used for
efficient energy performance.
 Use of advance technology and smart
lighting fixtures with advanced lighting
controls, motion sensors for dimmable
lighting and other high efficiency lighting
system that helps to minimize the electric
loads from equipments.
 Generating energy onsite by renewable
means like solar power or using energy
produced from renewable resources.
Alternative energy resources like fuel cells,
photovoltaic cells, wind and biomass energy
is utilized as far as possible.
 Properly designed heat/cool systems can be
efficiently used in conjunction with thermally
efficient building shell.
1. Direct Sunlight

2. Diffused light (Reflected from /sky 4. Internally reflected light

light) Louvers may be used to regulate the amount of
light entering the building and permit
ventilation.
As the amount of light is monitored in Green
Buildings, in a similar way different approaches
are used to monitor the heating by sunlight.

Solarium’ is another system employing Green

House Effect for the same purpose. A thick wall
linking the house with Green House, transfers
the heat from open space (Green House) to the
house through convection and conduction.

3. Externally Reflected light

Heat Storage Walls’ is another technique to

achieve indoor heating. The different types of
Heat Storage walls are:

a. Trombe Wall
b. Water Wall
c. Trans Wall
 2. Induced Ventilation
In this method, difference in temperature of air
is created for its movement. Section Designing
is done so as to ensure that the hot air rises up
and escapes out drawing cooler air from
5. INDOOR ENVIRONMENT QUALITY
atmosphere thereby making the ambience
cooler.
Indoor Environment Quality is a very important
parameter to be considered for Green
Buildings.It directly affects the health of
occupants, as shown by recent studies too,
which says that in buildings with good
environmental quality, the likelihood of
respiratory diseases, asthma, allergy, sick body
syndrome is less.

1. Wind Towers
Sites having good wind speeds deploy wind
towers. The tower has opening at the top that
directs wind into the building through many
other openings in different parts depending on
the direction of wind flow.
 IGBC , a whole – building approach to
sustainability by recognizing performance in five
key areas
 Sustainable sites
 Water efficiency
 Energy & atmosphere
 Material & resources
 Indoor environmental quality

3. Earth Air Pipe System

A pipe is buried at a depth of 4-5 mtr where
temperature is equal to the annual average
temperature. Air from Blower passes through
the pipe and gets cooled in summer and heated
in winters.

Green Rating for Integrated Habitat

6. IMPACTS OF CONVENTIONAL
BUILDINGS THAT GREEN
BUILDINGS SEEK TO RECTIFY
The environmental impacts of buildings are
enormous. Conventional buildings use large
amounts of energy, land, water, and raw
materials for their construction and operation.
They are responsible for large greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions as well as emissions of other
harmful air pollutants. They also generate large
amounts of construction and demolition (C&D)
waste and have serious impacts on plants and
wildlife. An analysis of these issues
demonstrates the scope of the problem.
7. GREEN BUILDING RATING
SYSTEM – KEY AREAS
Assessment (GRIHA)
Some of them are –
 Site selection and site planning
 Conservation and efficient utilization of
resources
 Building operation and maintenance
 Innovation
8. REFERENCE
 http://greencleanguide.com/three-primary-
rating-systems-for-green-buildings-in-india/
 https://www.greenbuildingsolutions.org/wha
t-is-green-building/
 https://www.engineersgarage.com/articles/
what-is-green-building
 http://greencleanguide.com/three-primary-
rating-systems-for-green-buildings-in-india/