CONCEPT OF GREEN BUILDING AND ITS IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Environment comprises of man built as well as natural environment, which are the result of several human activities done by them to enhance their standard of living, greed of attaining the power, money, control and luxurious life. These activities performed by humans lead to disturbance in eco-system, the human activities such as use of non-renewable resources up to such extent that they get extinct or remain a few, not only harm ecology but also reduce the chance of meeting these resources with future generation, not only wild and marine life suffer from these but a large number human population also (such as those are fully dependent on forest). A few of such activities are extraction of unlimited ground water and its further wastage, deforestation on large scale, burning of fossil fuels on large scale, land excavation for several purposes, damping of wastage on un-appropriate places etc. If we wishes for healthy, wealthy, well maintained, and systematic life cycle for a community in present as well as to meet these achievements in future i.e for the next generation, then we should have a balanced systematic cycle of resources used. The sustainability requires a transition to environmentally conductive habitat based on judicious energy and resources used to enhance a society that is happy, harmonious, healthy, and productive. So in order to save our environment , and to save the resources for future we can’t compromise with present living standard, health and productivity of community, so this lead the idea of sustainable development to fulfill the present requirements as well as to meet the future needs. AS we all knows buildings uses a significant amount of our natural resources (i.e, forest, fossils) and have a wide range of harmful impacts on environment. Such economical and environmental concerns are the main reason behind the sustainable building design movement. Using eco-friendly building materials and methods are ways to minimize a building’s environmental impact. However, the energy efficiency reductions in the construction and operation of buildings are offering most significant opportunities to reduce financial burden to owners through cheaper operation and maintenance cost. The main motto of this paper is to illustrate how the sustainable or green buildings benefits the stakeholder environmentally as well as economically.

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