Planning and Design of Smart City and Green Building

Green building concept is best in the business to minimize energy usage, water consumption, various pollutions such as water and air, to encounter the needs of the time, to magnify residents quality of life. In the upcoming times, green building will become principal cultural notion, to fascinate people to purchase, for better relationship between humans and nature and many other parameters like common development circumstances. As there is progress in technology and economic growth, one of the biggest barrier to human’s lives is the environmental problems, because with time people living environment is getting worse and it’s a high time to notice of various environmental issues and take a step towards protecting our environment. Green building is one of the step. This sunrise mechanization concept in construction sector has an era-making significance, as it can minimize waste, improve utilization of resources, and also reduce nature destruction activities of human.The utilization of enviromental friendly energy saving technologies enabling green energy saving technologies to maximize their effectiveness in construction.In this project I have chosen a conventional building and tried to convert it into green building to avail all the benefits discussed above. The three basic parameters of green building are water efficiency, energy efficiency and material efficiency. As the building is in existing form therefore material efficiency part cannot be performed. I can work on rest two parameters. I designed rainwater harvesting setup and also performed energy analysis. After performing energy analysis I found that our building is nearly optimized. Parameters like window wall ratio, plug load efficiency falls in acceptable limits. Also in rainwater harvesting part I can conclude that our building water demand can be met if I collect water efficiently. In addition to that I also compared the conventional setup cost and the rainwater harvesting setup cost and found that our breakeven period is 19 years. This means that our building will not going to spend even a single penny on water after a time period of 19 years. After performing whole processes I managed to attain three star rating from GRIHA parameters. This report revealed that Green buildings provides a promising medium for efficiently saving energy and water that will Further help in sustainable use of resources for prolonged period of time.

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