HAND BOOK OF GREEN BUILDING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
The concept of sustainable development and green building is relatively new; indeed, over the past two decades it has become one the most researched and controversial topics in the field of property development and building design and construction generally. Yet even today a precise definition of what makes a building green tends to elude us. One definition offered by the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive (OFEE) for green building is “the practice of 1) increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy, water, and materials, and 2) reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal — the complete building life cycle.” The EPA defines green building as, “the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction.” Jacob Kriss of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) defines green building as: “a holistic concept that starts with the understanding that the built environment can have profound effects, both positive and negative, on the natural environment, as well as the people who inhabit buildings every day. Green building is an effort to amplify the positive and mitigate the negative of these effects throughout the entire life cycle of a building.” This tells us that green building, when correctly applied, is meant to improve design and construction practices so that the buildings we build last longer, cost less to operate, and will facilitate increased productivity and better working environments for workers or residents. But even more than that, it is also about protecting our natural resources and improving the built environment so that the planet’s ecosystems, people, enterprises, and communities can live a healthier, resource efficient, and more successful lifestyle. It is no surprise that the general public’s perception of the green movement has changed considerably since its early formative days and is today sweeping across the United States and much of the civilized world
نام کتاب: HAND BOOK OF GREEN BUILDING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
نویسنده : Sam Kubba
انتشار: 2017
تعداد صفحات: 1034
زبان: انگلیسی
فرمت: pdf
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