What You Need to Know About Green Buildings For Sustainable Future

Green buildings' goal is to achieve the minimum possible impact on the environment. They are the...

Victor Kiplagat Victor Kiplagat
May 13, 2022 - 19:26
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What You Need to Know About Green Buildings For Sustainable Future
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Environmental conservation is an important aspect of modern real estate ventures. Although the “perfect environment” does not exist, green building ensures the incorporation of environment-friendly and resource-efficient processes at each stage of construction.

From site selection and design to construction, an operation followed by maintenance, renovation, or even demolition. The goal is to achieve the minimum possible impact on the environment.

The concept of Green Building concentrates mainly on two points: Increasing the efficiency with which buildings use energy, water, and materials and reducing buildings' impacts on human health and the environment, through better site selection, design construction, operation, maintenance, and removal through the complete life cycle

Components of Green Buildings

1. Sustainable Site Selection

Public transport should be easily accessible and convenient to cut down on energy consumption for transportation. A sustainable site ensures a smooth process in property construction.

Additionally, rehabilitation of sites damaged by environmental conservation is a better option than any new piece of land where a large amount of energy and resource is needed to make the land worthy of fresh construction.

2. Material and Resources

In choosing materials and resources for construction, we should keep in mind features like zero or low toxicity, a high percentage of recyclability, zero or low off-gassing of harmful air emissions, durability of construction materials, and sustainably harvested material.

For construction, rapidly renewable materials include bamboo flooring, wool carpets, strawboard, cotton ball insulation, and great artificial and well-ventilated windows.

3. Water Efficiency

Water usage is an essential part of any property construction. Provisions for reusing and recycling water are made to ensure efficient water management.

Harvesting rainwater from the roof to tanks is a sure way if maximize usage of the resource even when you experience water rationing. Efficient water usage and management protect biodiversity and ecosystems.

The essence of “green buildings” is to improve occupant health and comfort while protecting the environment for future generations to invest in real estate in environment-friendly ways.

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