Salient Features of Green Building
- The Built Environment has profound Impact on our Natural Environment, Economy, Health and Productivity.
- Green Building can Design, Build and Operate a Building that Delivers High Performance Inside and outside.
- Building annually consumes more than 20% of electricity used in India.
- Green Building practices can substantially reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts and can improve existing unsustainable design, construction and operational practices.
- Green Building reduces Operational costs, enhances Building marketability, Increase worker productivity, Improves Indoor Environment Quality, and Reduces potential liability resulting from Indoor Air Quality problems.
- People Friendly GREEN Building design gains productivity by 16%, Reduction in Absenteeism and improved work quality, which benefits building stakeholders, including owner, occupants and general public.
- In development circles, Green has gone from a boutique idea to a mandatory part of the Architecture and Construction.
- Almost all Construction waste is recycled or reused.
- Green Buildings consumes about 25% less energy than conventional buildings.
- In Green Buildings Interiors are done with low V.O.C. content materials, adhesives, sealants, paints and carpets, which reduces allergies and illness.

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Green Buildings:
- Controls erosion to reduce negative impacts on water and air quality.
- Avoid development of inappropriate sites and reduce the environmental impact.
- Channel development to urban areas with existing Infrastructure, protect green fields and preserve habitat and natural resources.
- Rehabilitates damaged sites where development is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination, reducing pressure on undeveloped land.
- Reduce pollution and land development impacts from automobile use.
- Conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to provide habitat and promote biodiversity.
- Limit disruption of natural water hydrology by reducing impervious cover, increasing onsite infiltration and managing storm water runoff.
- Limit disruption of natural water flows by eliminating storm water runoff, increasing onsite infiltration and eliminating contaminants.
- Reduces Heat Islands to minimize impact on microclimate and human habitat.
- Minimize light trespass from the building and site, reduce sky-glow to increase night sky access, improve nightmare visibility through glare reduction.
- Limit or eliminate use of potable water for landscape, irrigation air conditioning make up.
- Reduce the generation of waste water and potable water demand, while increasing local aquifer recharge.
- Reduce Ozone depletion.
- Increase demand for building products that incorporated recycled content materials, therefore reducing impacts resulting from extraction and processing of new virgin materials.
- Reduce the use and depletion of finite raw and long cycle renewable materials by replacing them with rapidly renewable materials.
- Provide a comfortable thermal environment that supports the productivity and well-being of building occupants.
Typical Features of Green Building
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Sustainable Development
- Present Site Condition
- Site Development—Protect & Restore habitat—Maximize Open space
- Heat Island Effect—Roof & Non Roof
- Basic Amenities
- Parking
- Transportation & Alternate Transportation
- Design for Differently Able
- Storm water design— Quality & Quantity control
- Development Density & Community Connectivity
- Light Pollution Reduction
- Green Home Guidelines—-Design & Post occupancy
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Water Efficiency
- Water Efficient Landscape
- Innovative waste water technologies
- Gray water treatment
- Use of treated Gray water
- Water Use reduction
- Ground water recharge
- Roof rain water recharge / harvesting
- Rain water harvesting
- Water efficient fixtures
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Energy Efficiency
- Passive Cooling System
- Passive ventilation System
- Energy in Building Construction
- Advanced Windows & Energy Savings
- Fundamental Building System Commissioning
- Enhanced Building System Commissioning
- Minimum Energy Performance
- Optimize Energy Performance
- Active Energy Efficiency
- CFC reduction in HVAC Equipment
- Fundamental Refrigerant Management
- Enhanced Fundamental Refrigerant Management
- Building Energy simulation
- Building Envelope Design
- On-site Renewable Energy
- Hybrid Energy
- Building Integrated renewable Energy technologies
- Measurement & Verification
- Building Automation & Control
- Green Power
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Innovation in Design Process
- Vastu Principles
- Bio dynamic Farming
- Three tier Cooling System
- Three grade Cooling System
- A pert of building to be Net Zero
- Zero Discharge
- Geo Thermal Cooling
- Wind Towers
- Bio-fence
- Thermal fence
- Green Walls
- Hydroponics
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Indoor Environmental Quality
- Minimum Indoor Air Quality Performance
- Outdoor Air Delivery Monitoring
- Increased Ventilation
- Low Emitting Building Materials
- Control ability of Systems—Light & Thermal Comfort
- Thermal Comfort Design & Verification
- Daylight & Views—Daylight
- Daylight & Views—Views
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Materials & Resources
- Storage & Collection of Recyclables
- Building Reuse
- Construction Waste management
- Material Use
- Regional Material
- Rapidly renewable Materials
- Certified Wood
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Regional Priority
- Energy Conservation
- Water Conservation
- Disaster Management Plan
- Meditation Room
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control