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.

• 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

• Regional Priority

  • Energy Conservation
  • Water Conservation
  • Disaster Management Plan
  • Meditation Room
  • Environmental Tobacco Smoke Control