Green Building Vs Green Architecture

Chapter I

Introduction and Background:

Green building/Green Design/Green architecture alludes to both a structure and the use of procedures that are environmentally mindful and asset productive all through a building's life-cycle: from intending to design, construction, operation, support, redesign, and demolition. This requires close cooperation of the contractual worker, the architects, the engineers, and the customer at all project stages. The Green Building practice extends and supplements the traditional building design worries of economy, utility, toughness, and solace. A green building (additionally alluded to as supportable building or green construction) is a structure that utilizes an approach that is in charge of the environment

The relationships among man, environment, and nature were established the day the first humans showed up on the scene. Some practices, such as using nearby and renewable materials or passive solar design, go back millennia – the Anasazi in the Southwest fabricated whole villages so that every one of the homes got solar warmth in the winter. The contemporary green building movement arose out of the need and desire for more energy efficient and environmentally agreeable building practices. The oil cost increases of the 1970s spurred significant research and action to enhance energy productivity and find renewable energy sources (Hopkins, 2002). This, joined with the environmental movement of the 1970s, prompted the earliest experiments with contemporary green building. The greater part of this prompted the arrangement of LEED standards in 1994. Builders can get alternatively confirmed and prepared through the committee in sustainable building (Pushkar et al., 2005). LEED affirmation provides free, outsider confirmation that a building, home or group was designed and constructed using strategies went for accomplishing superior in key areas of human and environmental wellbeing: sustainable site advancement, water savings, energy effectiveness, materials selection and indoor environmental quality (Lee & Guerin,

All of these problems can be solved by adopting the techniques of green buildings/green architecture. Green buildings are environmental friendly, cost friendly, allow the use of renewable sources, energy efficient, and cause reduction in all sorts of pollutions. So this report will highlight the importance of green buildings and how green buildings can help us to solve many problems such as environmental pollution, energy consumption etc. Furthermore this report will also act as a guideline for engineers, architectures, contractors and owners of the buildings to understand what actually green buildings are, what their advantages are and how concept of green building can be utilized by them at their