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GREEN BUILDING

SUBMITTED BY
R.LOGARAJA,
K.SURESHKANNAN
B.E.CIVIL ENGINEERING FINAL YEAR,
NPRCET.NATHAM
DINDIGUL.DT
TAMILNADU
EMAIL ID:logaraja.npr@gmail.com

ABSTRACT: Adoption of Green Building Technology has become mandatory for ensuring
sustainable development. However, its wide acceptance would require critical examination of
various aspects like energy conservation, cost, strength and durability. Use of modern
electronic controls and smart devices can enhance the functionality and performance of green

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building. Architects should get equipped with technical know-how for planning and
designing intelligent green buildings to meet the future needs.

INTRODUCTION
Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) expands
and complements the building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and
comfort
A Green Building is one which uses less water, optimizes energy efficiency,
conserves natural resources, generates less waste and provides healthier space for
occupants as compared to conventional buildings.
OBJECTIVES OF GREEN BUILDING

Green Buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact on human health and the
natural environment by the following ways.
Using energy, water and other resources efficiently. By reducing waste, pollution, and
environmental degradation.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Structure design efficiency
Energy efficiency
Water efficiency
Materials efficiency
Waste and toxic reduction

Need of Green Concept:

Increasing urbanization has given a boost to building industry and number of
bungalows, building complexes and multi storied buildings are being designed by architects
and engineers with innovative concepts and enhanced features. However, it is observed that
in many cases, environmental aspects are ignored leading to uncomfortable habitat and
increased maintenance and energy requirements. Green building concept needs to be realized
by all concerned with building activity and studied in detail by designers and planners for
better built environment. Green or eco-friendly building is often considered as the luxury of
wealthy people which is not correct. In fact, it is the necessity of common middle class man
who cannot afford to provide air conditioning or pay exorbitant electricity bills.

Critical Appraisal of Green Technology:

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Green Technology is mandatory for ensuring sustainable development. However, in

spite of all out awareness campaigns and promotional efforts, the adoption of this technology
has remained marginal and restricted to environmentally conscious or wealthy people with
main motive of value addition rather than economy and energy conservation. In case of
building industry, the green tagging of building enhances the value and supersedes other nongreen competitors in attracting customers. The cost aspect of green building and loss of other
functional requirements like security and durability are often concealed by green builders
leading to a failure in convincing common man to adopt green building design.
The main functions of the building are, to give shelter from environmental factors like Suns
heat, rain, wind and extreme vagaries of nature like flood and hurricanes.
Provide security to life and property.
Provide privacy.

Durability and Strength.

Aesthetic beauty
Comfortable living
Civil engineering considers strength, durability and cost as the main criteria while selecting
materials, planning and construction. Architecture gives more stress on aesthetics and
comfort and pays attention to fulfilling psychological needs of occupants. Green building
techniques seek to conserve and utilize natural resources, emphasize eco-friendly
construction and think of minimum carbon footprint on global scale.

Integration of IT and Green Technology:

Green building is need of tomorrows future and old methods of construction and use
of natural materials though more eco-friendly cannot provide for the needs of tomorrow like
space economy, security, modern gadgets and amenities and flexibility in energy
management. Fortunately advances in IT and automation controls can make the green
building intelligent providing security, energy conservation and weather responsive
automated operations. Use of solar energy, LED lighting, Rainwater harvesting, preservation
of indoor air quality and thermal comfort zone and waste minimization can be made highly
effective and economical through sensor based controls and appliances.

Panorama of smart home appliances:

Numerous smart control devices are available in market which can be deployed easily
for ensuring security, comfort and for energy and water conservation. Restricted access

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control, intruder alarm, dimmer light controls, Bluetooth, WI-Fi and/or net enabled smart
devices, smoke detector, sensor based plumbing fixtures, automatic controls for opening and
closing of Venetian shutters or blinds etc. Siemens, Tata Honeywell and ABB are some of the
worlds largest producers of such controllers. Coupled with it, there are varieties of
innovative products like wind powered fans, waterless urinals, dual flush latrines, Light
tubes, LED lighting systems which can help in achieving green objectives.

Intelligent Green Buildings of Tomorrow:

Energy, buildings, and the environment are interlinked in a symbiotic relationship,
and the results of this interaction can be optimized for maximum gains by convergence of
Green and Intelligent building concepts. An intelligent building is one in which the building
fabric, space, services and information systems can respond in an efficient manner to the
initial and changing demands of the owner, the occupier and be in harmony with the
environment. Intelligent buildings not only have energy efficiency but also have safety and
telecommunications systems and other required automations propelled by innovations.

Design of Intelligent Green Building:

The ability to perform accurate whole building energy, water, and carbon emission
analysis early during the design phase is essential for green building design. Simulating a
building's energy use is a hard problem, requiring not only a model of the building and the
materials that make it up but also a model of the building's location, with the path of the sun
through the year and weather data that is accurate and detailed, including humidity, wind,
simple daytime-nighttime temperatures, and a host of other location specific parameters.
There are many modeling and simulation tools for design of green building Simplified Whole
Building Energy simulation tools include: ASEAM, Carrier HAP, Energy-10 and TRACE
600. Detailed simulation tools include: BLAST, DOE-2, and ESP-r. Lighting and Day
lighting Simulation - ADELINE, RADIANCE, SUPERLITE

Solar System Simulation - TRNSYS

Ecotect is a whole-building simulator that combines an interactive building design
interface and 3D modeler with a wide range of environmental analysis tools for a detailed
assessment of solar, thermal, lighting, shadows & shading design, energy & building
regulations, acoustics, air flow, and cost & resource performance of buildings at any scale. It
can be used as plug-in in AutoCAD.
A computable Revit design model is a great fit for the analyses needed for
sustainable design even during schematic design. As soon as the layout of a building's
walls, windows, roofs, floors, and interior are established, a Revit model can do whole
building analyses.
Green Building Studio Web service meets ASHRAE Standard 140 and is certified by
the U.S. Department of Energy. Built specifically for architects and using gbXML for data

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exchange across the Internet, the GBSWeb service can be used for building designs and
sophisticated energy analysis.
Selection of a simulation program should consider the project requirements, time and
cost, availability of computer system and experience of the user. Once the building completed
and people use it, it should be monitored for the actual performance.

Role of Green Architects:

The architects should learn the basic concepts of green and eco-friendly building and
make appropriate changes in methods and materials they are using for the building design. In
order to achieve desired green rating, they should use modeling and simulation tools after
necessary customization to suit clients specific requirements and site constraints.
One Earth can be counted as among the largest green building projects in India.
LEED certified it as PLATINUM and it is built on an area of 10.13acres. Several accolades
continue to shower upon Suzlons global headquarter in Pune One Earth.SUZLON
ENERGY LIMITED,PUNE:
This green building ensures optimal use of natural light and minimal wastage of
electricity or energy consumption. First airport in Asia to be certified with SILVER rating.
Indias first Greenfield airport is undeniably among the top 10 green buildings in India.
RAJIV GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTHYDERABAD:
Its smart lighting, heat recovery wheel and high efficiency chillers make this office stand out
from the rest. GOLD rated building by LEED. NOKIA-GURGAON:

Role of Dnyandeep:
Dnyandeep Education & Research Foundation has launched a website www.envis.org
to act as an effective medium for creating awareness about environmental protection and for
popularization of green building/green city concept. The website includes all technical papers
presented in the earlier workshops and seminars on this topic. It is proposed to have
networking of architects and builders for information exchange and transfer of technical
know-how. The foundation is planning to provide all necessary guidance and training to
architect members with the help of experts in Green Building Design, IT, Instrumentation and
Control though this website. Let us hope that with active participation from all concerned we
will be able to usher a new era of intelligent green buildings affordable to all in future.

DIFFERENT FROM OTHER BUILDINGS

The design, maintaince and construction of buildings have tremendous effect on our
environment and natural resources.

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Green Building is different from the other buildings because it use a minimum
amount of nonrenewable energy, produce minimal pollution, increases the comfort,
health and safety of the people who work in them.
It also minimizes the waste in construction by recovering materials and reusing or
recycling them.

AFFECT ON NATURAL RESOURCES

According to surveys conducted in 2006, 107.3 million acres of total land area is
developed, which represents an increase of 24 percent land covering green buildings
over the past 3 years.
In terms of energy, buildings accounted for 39.4 percent of total energy consumption
and 67.9 percent of total electricity consumption.
Reduce operating costs Create, expand, and shape markets for green product and
services Improve occupant productivity.

GREEN BUILDING PROJECT IN INDIA

Suzlon Energy Limited-Pune
Biodiversity Conservation India-Bangalore Olympia Technology Park-Chennai
ITC Green Centre-Gurgaon
The Druk White Lotus School-Ladakh
Doon School-Dehradun
Raintree Hotels-Chennai
Nokia-Gurgaon
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport-Hyderabad
Hiranandini-BG House, Powai
ABN Amro Bank, Chennai
Palais Royale at Worli, Mumbai
Punjab Forest Complex,Mohali

CONCLUSION

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This research identified the exciting developments taking place on the technology
front and analyzes their implications for intelligent and green buildings, highlighting
examples of best in class buildings employing green and intelligent technologies. These
buildings are dynamic environments that respond to their occupants changing needs and
lifestyles. This research provided documented evidence to educate and influence end-users,
building owners, architects, and contractors that a greener building can be achieved using
intelligent technology and that this greening will provide a tangible and significant return
on investment.

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