GREEN BUILDING

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

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INTRODUCTION
1.1 GREEN BUILDING A green building is an outcome of a design philosophy which focuses on increasing the efficiency of resource use energy, water, and materials while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better sitting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal. Green building is a concept idea incorporating a wide spectrum of solutions and best-practices. Though green building is interpreted in many different ways, a common opinion that they should be designed and operated to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:

Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources Protecting occupant health Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradation

The 'green building' concept is gradually gaining momentum in India. A green building typically applies practices like harvesting energy and water and using environment-friendly materials in its design, construction, operation and maintenance so as to maintain and sustain the environment. Unlike other buildings green buildings use key resources such as water, material and land much more efficiently then other buildings. These buildings are cost effective hence save money by reducing operations and maintenance. Development of green buildings has many monetary benefits such as lower energy, waste disposal, water costs, and lower environmental and emission costs. The benefits of these buildings are spread out over the life span of the buildings and should be looked at in the long run and not in upfront costs.

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Any development of building will have some environmental impact. Green building can be thought of as development with low environmental impact, while maximizing environmental, economic, social gains.

1.2 CONCEPTUAL DRAWING OF GREEN BUILDING

Fig 1: Conceptual Drawing of Green Building

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1.3 OBJECTIVE The main objective here is to adopt certain features of GREEN BUILDING in the existing building of CEPT university (SBST, PG department). For the same purpose a case study has been conducted of LEED certified PLATINUM grade building, the name of building is YAMUNA which is a corporate office of Kirloskar brothers ltd. and is situated in Pune.

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