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7/30/2019 Seminar Submission

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1.|BACKGROUND

The built environment plays a significant role in our daily lives. As individuals we are constantly

interacting with our built environment, and thus it has been shown to have a profound impact

on our happiness, productivity and overall health. Buildings and their design also influence the

way we live and work, and the manner in which we define our communities. It is therefore vital

that our buildings be designed and constructed in a manner that is beneficial not only to

ourselves, but also to the environment surrounding us. There has been a realization that

building design plays an important role in our society, and that sustainable design is crucial not

only to human well-being but also the well-being of our environment.

Green buildings are environmentally friendly and sustainable structures that incorporate

various techniques to minimize their effects on the environment. Energy efficiency is one of the

primary green building techniques. Other techniques in green building that allow for credits are

site selection, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and innovation and design

processes. Site selection involves choosing locations which are not environmentally sensitive.

Proper site design is also crucial to minimizing the buildings effect on the surrounding

landscape. Materials and resources involve choosing building materials that are sustainable,

such as recycled or locally-produced material. This technique also involves proper usage and

disposal of excess materials. Indoor environmental quality is a measure of indoor air quality, as

well as interior comfort.

Green building practices vary between regions and locales. There is currently no universal set of

policies and regulations to govern green building practices in all countries. Practitioners of

green building design strategies and techniques make use of diverse technologies and methods

that enable high-performance structures to replace conventional construction techniques.

Current practices focus on employing techniques, materials and technologies that are

sustainable and locally- appropriate. The use of long-term sustainable strategies and materials

enable the built environment of structures to positively affect both the surrounding natural

environment and human health concerns.


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2.|AIM

Study the use of specific material and their application in green building techniques in office

building.

3.|OBJECTIVE

To study one successfully constructed building that has attained the status of green building

through live case study.

To understand the material implementation in buildings with the help of different case studies,

this would refer to properly functioning building with green building techniques in form of

literature case studies.

Also to have proper information regarding buildings that have not been able to achieve energy

efficiency through design

4.|RESEARCH PURPOSE

The intention of this study is to produce a document that will outline the stimulus behind green

building endeavors. It is also the hope for me to present the incentives that brought about the

decision to implement green building design in place of conventional practices.

5.|SCOPE & LIMITATION

The scope of this research is study on various materials and the techniques of implementation

in building design according to green building specifications.

The limitation of this study will be restricted to the Indian climate and current scenario.

6.|METHODOLOGY

The project objective is to evaluate energy use and the energy efficiency performance of the

office building with reference to the material application in the building. This would include

various studies based on primary and secondary sources which will be used by me to give a


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conclusion on what to do and what no to do. Then this study will come into my final thesis as

design consideration for the use of building material.

7.|EXPECTED END RESULT

The outcome of this research will reflect in designing aspect in my thesis work, which is on the

Information Technology Park, Lucknow.

8.|REFERENCES

Primarystudy

Live case study of

an office building.

interviews

Second

arystudy

Literature case study

of an office building.

Book study, internetstudy.

Conclusion

Study Buildings that has attained the status of

Green Building


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S. Bry Sarte; Sustainable Infrastructure: The Guide to Green Engineering and Design-2010

Woodrow Clark III; Sustainable Communities Design Handbook: Green Engineering, Architecture, and

Technology-2010

Liv Haselbach; "The Engineering Guide to LEED-New Construction: Sustainable Construction for

Engineers, Second Edition-2010

LEED rating system

GRIHA

IGBC

Green business centre, Hyderabad

Bagasse Board by product of sugarcane industry-a good substitute for plywood or Particle Board

It has wide usage for making partitions, furniture etc.

Eco-friendly method - does not involve any harm to the timbers, unlike plywood.

Used for furniture in interiors of the building

An impressive 77 % of the building materials use recycled content in the form of fly ash, brokenglass, broken tiles, recycled paper, recycled aluminum, cinder from industrial furnaces, bagasse,

mineral fibers, cellulose fibers, and quarry dust.

Low VOC paints have also been applied.

All of the new wood used was sustainably harvested, as

certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

Reuse of a significant amount of material salvaged from

other construction sites like toilet doors, interlocking

pavement blocks, stone slabs, scrap steel, scrap glazed tiles,

shuttering material and, the furniture in the cafeteria.

Stone grid pavers used on roads for easy drainage of water.

Reuse of construction waste stone in paving the gardens.

Furniture in the canteen with local Tandur stone flooring.

A waste management plan ensured that 96 % of construction waste was recycled.


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FLY ASH BRICK

Manufacturing method saves energy, reduces mercury pollution,

costs 20% less than traditional clay brick manufacturing.

Low embodied energy; High recycled content, low CO2 emission

Lighter than clay bricks.

High strength, practically no breakage during transport

Uniform size of bricks reduces mortar required for joints and plaster by 50%.

Lower water penetration, considerably reducing seepage of water through bricks

Gypsum plaster (plaster of Paris) can be directly applied on these bricks without a backing coat of lime

plaster.

65% walls in GBC are constructed with this material.

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