How Green is your Green Building.
The latest fad to hit the real estate industry is Green or Sustainable Buildings. Wiki defines the Green Building as
a structure and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort.
Green buildings have suddenly become very popular. Buyers and developers nowadays focuses on the various attributes which makes a building green. In brief a Green Building should have following top three considerations. Green buildings strive to reduce the impact of built structure on environment and on humans by:
- Efficiently using energy, water, and other resources
- Protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity
- Reducing waste, pollution and environmental degradation.
Utilizing Sunlight to reduce the energy consumption in buildings is a very important factor in reducing energy usages. There are ways and means available to find out how much sunshine your dwelling unit would receive at any time of the year.
May also like to read: International Green Construction Code to Drive Green Building Movement.
