To enhance the environmental and human health performance attributes associated with freestanding furniture and medical furnishings LEED Certification rating system has introduced a credit entitled Furniture and medical furnishing under Material and resource credit. 1-2 points are awarded for this credit. This credit is applicable to healthcare Requirements Use at Read more…
It is known that freshwater sources are becoming threatened with the passage of time. If the present situation of water does not change and precautionary measures are not taken, then world will start to run out of fresh water by 2050. Rainwater harvesting is a sustainable process that helps in Read more…
Our buildings imposes a considerable impact on environmental health in its whole life. Although all the materials and products have not same impacts on environment. In order to evaluate these impacts we need to calculate the LCA of all the materials. This facilitates us to reduce the carbon footprints and Read more…
Commissioning of a building is a process of optimizing energy performance in an existing building or in a new development. Commissioning in many ways is a detailed and meticulous analysis of buildings energy usage and system efficiency. Commissioning process is designed to find out the issues which lead to wastage Read more…
LEED certification has put a special emphasis on alternative transportation. Following are the LEED credit and their points which comes under location and transport credit. The location and transport has following Requirement. To provide alternate transport and sharing Provisions of parking for the alternate transport vehicles eg. Electric bikes, bicycles Read more…
Energy consumption is one of the most important factors that LEED uses in their certification process. And the owner’s capability to track usage and identify potential savings. Generally most conventional buildings have simple meters provided by the utility company for billing purposes but the advanced standards for LEED certification require Read more…
Climate change has become a global issue right now. Concerns raised from these issues has insisted people to adopt the sustainable development. Because water is one of the world’s most necessary natural resources, all green building projects should include water efficiency as a mainstream goal. The demand of fresh water Read more…
After HVAC system, lighting system is the next largest energy consumption system in any commercial building. Usually lighting consumption is expressed in the form of lighting power density. The lighting power density (LPD) can be defined as the lighting load in watts/sq ft (or watts/square meter). Particularly, for a commercial Read more…
Recently Environmental protection organizations expressed highly concern about the abrupt increase in carbon emissions across the world from the buildings. Global concern about the environment has insisted people to adopt Building that are more eco-friendly even more than the Green Buildings. Now what a Net- zero Energy building really is? Read more…
In recent years we have seen that many commercial buildings are coming up as a whole glass buildings. In Indian context buildings with full glass is not desirable as the larger amount of glazing leads to a huge amount of heat gain of overall building. Hence, it becomes important to Read more…