Green House Building – A Plan Forward
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What does a ‘Green’ house building entail? It encompasses cost effective and eco-friendly use of resources to build houses, institutions, markets, malls, and other similar structures.
The methods used in ‘Green’ House building are diverse. Use of architectural designs, which maximize the availability of natural sunlight and wind, help reduce consumption of electricity and polluting air conditioners. It also includes use of energy saving devices such as solar heaters and photovoltaic panels. Using locally available materials and natural materials helps conservation. Other methods include building houses only as spacious as is really required. Installation of smaller cisterns for flushing toilets, recycled water for gardening and rain water harvesting are important principles in building ‘green’ houses.
The advantages of building ‘green’ are many. Experts have estimated that a well-planned ‘green’ building consumes upto 30% less energy than a normal building. Because ‘green’ buildings use more natural air and sunlight, they are likely to be healthier to live in and thus improve human productivity with the added advantage of lower incidental medical bills.
It is generally misconstrued that green building costs more to build than normal buildings. That is just not true. Studies have shown that a well conceived ‘green’ house project might cost in the range of 0.5 % to 6.5 % over a normal building in the initial costing. In the long term, those initial costs are recovered.
A sustainable ‘green’ house model involves incorporation of ‘green’ features in the design stage leading to reduction of costs. Suggested measures include pooling or sharing of resources such as a common swimming pool or investing on a rainwater harvesting plant for the community at large.
‘Green’ is here to stay. In fact more and more people will be opting to live in ‘green’ buildings in the future. Giving encouragement to this initiative will be our contribution towards securing a sustainable future for mankind and our planet.
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