Sustainable Design – Making it a Reality
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by: Elise.Fendmeyer
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Sustainable designs do not tax the environment, are able to recycle most of the products used and help better the living conditions. This involves holistic planning in the use of natural sunlight and wind. The most optimum use of solar energy to reduce electricity consumption and wind flow patterns to reduce the CFC producing air conditioners are some of the aspects of sustainable design. A sustainable design looks at conserving water by harvesting rain water. It includes recycling bathroom water for watering the gardens. It looks at converting organic waste products into manure for use in the buildings kitchen garden.
A range of initiatives such as sharing a common swimming pool, common rainwater harvesting plant, solar panels all add up to the conservation aspects in a sustainable design. Why, even car pooling by residents of a green community is part of sustainable design movement. Sustainable design encourages the use of locally available material which can be reused and easily replenished. So if repairs are required of the building, material need not be hauled over long distances but be utilized from around the environment. Such initiatives need government aid to succeed. To do this several governments have set sustainable design standards. The most common sustainable design standard is the LEED standard adopted by USA and some other countries in the world. The scientists too have chipped in by providing life cycle calculations for sustainable designs in the field of architecture and building green infrastructure projects.
Scientists have helped arrive at life cycle energy analysis and introduction of modern technology to the overall ambit of life cycle calculations for sustainable designs. The initiatives range from synthesizing local building practices with the best of technology, use of powerful computers to simulate best sustainable designs to material improvements in designs of solar arrays and other equipment. The Greek concept of ‘Gaea’, which epitomizes a perfect harmony between Earth and all beings living and non-living, is a final ideal that proponents of sustainable design strive to achieve.
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