Where Is Green Building Architecture Leading the Human Civilization?

 

 

Buildings and the construction process have a lot to do with the environment and the climatic changes occupying the news headlines nowadays. According to the 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction, in 2021, the percentage of CO2 emissions caused by the construction sector went to an all-time high over the pre-pandemic level, reaching around 37%, where energy demand reached over 34%.

Notwithstanding that, man’s consciousness regarding saving the earth from environmental crisis led him to discover ideas for sustainable urban architectural planning using green energy.

Calculative building planning and practices can do a lot in saving natural energy and resources. Apart from that, the construction industry holds considerable potential in reducing waste, thereby controlling pollution to a great extent.

This discussion is dedicated to the process and technique of building known as sustainable building or green building.

What Is Meant by Green Building?

In simple terms, when you use certain building techniques and natural materials to make your building environment-friendly, your building becomes green. Green here doesn’t essentially mean the color. Rather, it associates the two different ideas of nature and construction together. Being the color of nature, green symbolizes here nature or the environment.

However, with terrace gardens or other added greenery, your building can actually look green.

Green building signifies the process, structure, and technique to make any eco-friendly building. This concept covers the complete life cycle of a structure from building, through maintenance, to its demolition.

When a particular structure is built using this green building technique, the whole construction process has to go through several demarcations. The main concept coming here is regarding saving natural resources including energy, water, land, material, etc. during the whole life cycle of the sturcture. And you don’t just save resources, you reduce waste to the optimum possible level too.

Thus, in a sentence, the concept of sustainable building or green building is based on the lowest possible consumption of resources while providing high efficiency and taking care of the environment and the overall cost.

To achieve this effect, the use of sustainable cutting-edge technologies, as well as renewable energies and materials, is the precondition. The technique takes steps to make everything natural or near natural throughout the construction process. With all this, a green building comes to life, which, throughout its lifetime, helps in retaining and improving the quality of the surrounding environment.

 

When it comes to green buildings, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certificate holds unavoidable significance. This certificate determines whether a building can be considered green or not.

The history behind the Technique of Green Building

A look back to the past of the construction industry is enough to prove that green buildings existed from the very beginning. The previous constructions tended to be more sustainable, as they were built with locally available natural materials. As the craving for industrialization saw its growth in the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, the emphasis naturally went to a sophisticated lifestyle beyond sustainability.