GREEN BUILDING FOR QUALITY LIVING

GREEN BUILDING FOR QUALITY LIVING
Supriya Shinde,  Nikita kanawade, Sarika Palande,  Nutan Zaware,  Prof. S. C. Dighe

Department Of Chemical Engineering ,P.D.V.V.P. Polytechnic Loni

HOD of Chemical Engineering Department

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Abstract:

The practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy, water, andmaterials, and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better sitting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal—the complete building life cycle. The practice of creating structures and using processes that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle from sitting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort. Green building is also known as a sustainable or ‘high performance’ building. Both of these definitions mention life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA is the investigation and valuation of the environmental, economic, and social impacts of a product or service in the context of green buildings.

LCA evaluates building materials  over the course of their entire lives and takes into account a full range of environment impacts, including materials embodied energy: the solid waste generated in its extraction, use and disposal: the air and water pollution associated with it: and its global warming potential. LCA is an import green. The most important element: the efficient use of energy building can incorporate manant tool because it can demonstrate whether a product used in a green building is truly y green features, but if they do not use energy efficiently, it is difficult to demonstrate that they are truly green. In fact, given that the term “green Building” can be somewhat vague, some people prefer to use the term “high performance building”. A high performance building is a building whose energy efficiency and environmental performance is substantially better than standard practices. Although green buildings, on averageuse less energy than conventional buildings. Energy efficiency remains elusive. In

fact, there is a growing debate whether buildings that achieve some level of LEED certification are more efficient in their use of energy than regular buildings. It suffices to say that if a building is not energy efficient, it cannot be said to be green.

The reality of the built environment: the  problem of existing buildings although green buildings represent the next phase of buildings, the reality is that the vast majority of buildings are not green, and these buildings will continue to be used for many years to come. Improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings typically involves a process called retrofitting, which can mean anything from installing more energy-efficient fixtures to increasing the amount of insulation in a building. While greening existing buildings does not receives that attention that new green buildings do, it is certainly more important when looking at reducing the environmental impacts of buildings nationwide.

Impacts of conventional buildings that green buildings seek to rectify the environmental impacts of buildings of buildings are enormous. 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 worldwide. Buildings consumers massive amount of energy. The United Nations environment programme has reported that 30-40 percent of all primary energy produced worldwide is used in buildings. In 2008, the international energy agency released a publication that estimated that existing buildings are responsible for more than 40 percent of the world’s total primary energy consumption and for 24 percent of global CO2 emissions.