Traditional homes have been slowing
hurting the environment for years. They
have been making such a negative impact on the environment that many people
have now decided to try to minimize their environmental footprint by switching
over to green building and green materials.
Green building is a much healthier life style with more energy efficient
homes, more durable, and sustainable.
Everybody recognizes the expression “going green”. Changing our daily habits to better impact
the environment has been a growing priority for many Americans—to help reduce
their carbon footprint. A huge area that
is contributing to being resource-efficient and environmentally friendly is
green building. Green buildings are
structures that help with the conservation of material through their building’s
maintenance, design, and construction.
The whole idea of these green buildings is the help with what the impact
could be on the environment and human health.
The most important goal is to reduce the environmental impact that
certain buildings have on the environment.
These include being resourceful while using energy and water. The protection of health and productivity
must be present. The reduction of waste
and other environmental pollutants is also considered. Here is more information about defining green building.
The need for green building comes from
a few different perspectives: the environmental, economic, and also social
concerns. With the current buildings
that are not considered green buildings and that are threats to these
perspectives, a sustainable approach can be implemented to help with the
continued life cycle of the building and to begin a green approach with
specific practices.
There are many factors that influence
the overall outcome of green buildings.
There are many different stages that need to be carefully constructed
when it comes to planning a new green building.
Using a life cycle assessment can help with these decisions. The life cycle assessment will help to look
at all the factors that play a part in green building and will help to fully
implement what aspects are important to look at and towards when it comes to
the stages of process. The process is
looked at from the beginning to end of a building and decides what factors play
which roll of waste, pollution, and environmental impact. After concluding the culprits, there is an
analysis with what to do the change this type of a building to have it
considered green.
Design efficiency is the design of a
physical building that helps with fulfilling the sustainability of the social
and economic concerns. The main goal in
this design is to completely eliminate any negative impact on the environment
through this skillful design. Water
efficiency has also been a concern for years.
There are many acts to help conserve water that help to reduce water
consumption. Sustainable building has a
main objective to reduce water consumption and help to keep the water at good
quality. The strategies to help with the
water conservation are reducing water loss ad helping to improve the management
of water practices. There are a few ways
water consumption can be kept low. The
big issue lies with the demand for water not being enough. New sustainable buildings are conserving
water by collecting water that is used and purified and then reused. There is also a design that helps to accomplish
dual plumbing that takes toilet water and reuses it after flushing while disposing
of the waste water.
The products used for green building
is supposed to grow from $2 billion to $60 billion within the years 2005 to
2010. Regardless of how the economy will
turn in the future, green products will be more evident and be making more of
an impact with its growth. The
governments at all levels have been involved in the recent green building. There have been major effects to start
implementing energy efficiency, reducing construction waste, and putting other
green building materials into effect.
As of now, most construction, whether it is to build or remodel,
is aware of green building and are working with different levels are techniques
and materials.
For the
commercial real estate brokers, the idea and implication of green building hasbeen more difficult than expected. They
are in somewhat of a quandary between their business relationships and clients.
There is the ability to add value to
future deals but it can be hard, especially for how much the demand has been
for green building. It is considered a
fad that more clients are requesting for future purchases. These current changes of sustainability and
green building have been affecting everyone.
Especially when deals need to made at the start of the building process. Commercial brokers are finding out that
knowing basic factual information about the going green movement isn’t
enough. Even with knowing information
about the new trends, it’s still difficult to add value to these deals.
Green building and sustainable
properties are becoming more important in the real estate industry. The incentive policies that insurance
companies are implementing are helping to increase the number of commercial
buildings that are going green. Almost
25% of the new material that is used for construction is green material. The amount of states that have green building
policies, standards, and programs, have increased to 31 states from 13 states—within 3 years! Going green will
make such a positive impact on the environment but could possibly be negative
for commercial brokers.
