GREEN BUILDING AND CLEAN

TECHNOLOGY
EVS ACTIVITY - 5

Faculty Name: Prof. Suchitra Umalkar, MAHE Dubai

EVS ACTIVITY - 5

Tasks to be accomplished
A. Read through the Information and Understand the
concept of Green Building
B. Go through the assigned case studies and answer the
following
1. Case Study -1 : List 10 green features incorporated in the ECO home.
2. Case Study -2: Explain how the Grey water treatment system works in the
sustainable city and where this treated water is utilized ?
3. Case Study -3: List the various techniques implemented in the MASDAR city that
help maintain the cooler temperatures within the city premises.
CIE 1052 : ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES : GREEN BUILDING AND
CLEAN TECHNOLOGY

Module - 3

Faculty Name: Prof. Suchitra Umalkar, MAHE Dubai

 Green Building – Sustainable Future

Go Green,
Green Goes
with
Everything

Source : SOTA Total quality construction

 Green Building
 Green building is a structure that is environmentally responsible and
resource efficient throughout its lifecycle i.e. from site selection to
demolition or reuse.
 These objectives expand and complement the classic building designs,
concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort.
 Green building is the practice of creating structures and using
processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient
throughout a building's life-cycle from construction site selection to
design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and
deconstruction.
 This practice expands and complements the classical building design
concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort. Green building is
also known as a sustainable or high performance building."
 Green Building
 A ‘green’ building is a building that, in its design, construction or operation,
reduces or eliminates negative impacts, and can create positive impacts, on
our climate and natural environment. Green buildings preserve precious
natural resources and improve our quality of life.
There are a number of features which can make a building ‘green’. These
include:
 Efficient use of energy, water and other resources
 Use of renewable energy, such as solar energy
 Pollution and waste reduction measures, and the enabling of re-use and recycling
 Good indoor environmental air quality
 Use of materials that are non-toxic, ethical and sustainable
 Consideration of the environment in design, construction and operation
 Consideration of the quality of life of occupants in design, construction and
operation
 A design that enables adaptation to a changing environment

Source Credit : World green Building council

 How can we make our buildings green?
 There are a number of ways to make a building green. These include:
 Taking an intelligent approach to energy
 Minimizing energy use in all stages of a building’s life-cycle, making new and
renovated buildings more comfortable and less expensive to run, and helping
building users learn to be efficient too.
 Integrating renewable and low-carbon technologies to supply buildings’ energy
needs, once their design has maximized inbuilt and natural efficiencies.
 Safeguarding water resources
 Exploring ways to improve drinking and waste water efficiency and
management, harvesting water for safe indoor use in innovative ways, and
generally minimizing water use in buildings.
 Considering the impact of buildings and their surroundings on stormwater and
drainage infrastructure, ensuring these are not put under undue stress or
prevented from doing their job.

Source Credit : World green Building council

 How can we make our buildings green?
 Minimizing waste and maximizing reuse
 Using fewer, more durable materials and generating less waste, as well as
accounting for a building’s end of life stage by designing for demolition waste
recovery and reuse.
 Engaging building users in reuse and recycling.
 Promoting health and wellbeing
 Bringing fresh air inside, delivering good indoor air quality through ventilation,
and avoiding materials and chemicals that create harmful or toxic emissions.
 Incorporating natural light and views to ensure building users’ comfort and
enjoyment of their surroundings, and reducing lighting energy needs in the process.
 Designing for ears as well as eyes. Acoustics and proper sound insulation play
important roles in helping concentration, recuperation, and peaceful enjoyment of
a building in educational, health and residential buildings.
 Ensuring people are comfortable in their everyday environments, creating the right
indoor temperature through passive design or building management and
monitoring systems.

Source Credit : World green Building council

How can we make our buildings green?
 Keeping our environment green
 Recognizing that our urban environment should preserve nature, and ensuring diverse
wildlife and land quality are protected or enhanced, by, for example, remediating
and building on polluted land or creating new green spaces.
 Looking for ways we can make our urban areas more productive, bringing agriculture
into our cities.
 Creating resilient and flexible structures
 Adapting to our changing climate, ensuring resilience to events such as flooding,
earthquakes or fires so that our buildings stand the test of time and keep people
and their belongings safe.
 Designing flexible and dynamic spaces

Source Credit : World green Building council

 How can we make our buildings green?
 Connecting communities and people
 Creating diverse environments that connect and enhance communities, asking what a
building will add to its context in terms of positive economic and social effects, and
engaging local communities in planning.
 Ensuring transport and distance to amenities are considered in design, reducing the impact
of personal transport on the environment, and encouraging environmentally friendly options
such as walking or cycling.
 Exploring the potential of both ‘smart’ and information communications technologies to
communicate better with the world around us, for example through smart electricity grids
that understand how to transport energy where and when it is needed.
 Considering all stages of a building's life-cycle
 Seeking to lower environmental impacts and maximise social and economic value over a
building's whole life-cycle (from design, construction, operation and maintenance, through to
renovation and eventual demolition).
 Ensuring that embodied resources, such as the energy or water used to produce and
transport the materials in the building are minimised so that buildings are truly low impact.

Source Credit : World green Building council

Consumption: Home Design
 Green Building Aspects
 Following are the key aspects of green building
approach.
1. Location-Efficient Site selection

2. Energy Efficient Home Design

3. Green Construction Materials

 Green Building Aspects
1. Location-Efficient Siting
 how people and goods get to and from the site affects the environmental
performance of the building and its occupants
 A location-efficient site is well-connected to the larger region and close to
amenities
 Choosing a location that offers transportation options and a variety of nearby
destinations:
◼ Protects air and water quality by reducing the distance people have to drive and
making it easier to walk, bike, or take public transit.
◼ Preserves open space, farmland, and natural lands by building on or near already-
developed sites.
◼ Saves money and resources by using existing infrastructure.
 Location-efficient sites are often in previously developed areas that are already
connected by infrastructure.
◼ reduces the need for new streets, utility lines, water pipes, and other infrastructure.
◼ reusing and renovating existing structures
◼ Historic buildings, vacant properties, can be transformed into a green development
 Green Building Aspects
2.Energy Efficient Home Design
 Think of Whole-House Systems Approach
 Appliances and home electronics
◼ choose energy efficient appliances and electronics
◼ ENERGY STAR-qualified products exceed the federal minimum standards for efficiency
and quality -- sometimes significantly
◼ Smart Appliances - appliances that can be connected to smart electric meters or home
energy management systems to help you shift your electricity use to off-peak hours
◼ Smart Meters - A smart meter is an electronic device that records consumption of
electric energy in intervals of an hour or less and communicates that information at least
daily back to the utility for monitoring and billing. Smart meters enable two-way
communication between the meter and the central system.
 Insulation and air sealing
◼ Weatherizing your home
◼ Moisture Control and Ventilation
 Energy Efficient Design Cont…

 Lighting and daylighting

◼ Traditional incandescent bulbs use a lot of energy to produce light, You have many
choices in energy-efficient lighting. The most popular light bulbs available are halogen
incandescent, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), and light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
◼ Controls such as timers and photocells save electricity by turning lights off when not in
use
 Space heating and cooling
◼ Programmable thermostats and apps make it easy to control the temperature of your
home and save energy and money
◼ Sealing and insulating ducts
 Windows, doors, and skylights. Double glazed windows, Windows on east-,
west-, and north-facing walls should be minimized while still allowing for adequate
daylight, North-facing windows collect little solar heat, so they are used only for
lighting.
 Green Building Aspects
3. Green Construction Materials
 Building and construction activities worldwide consumes 3 billion tons of raw
materials each year or 40 percent of total global use. Using green building
materials and products promotes conservation of dwindling nonrenewable
resources internationally.
 The selection of green building materials and products represents one important
strategy in the design of a green building. Green building materials offer specific
benefits to the building owner and building occupants and are follows:
 Reduced maintenance/replacement costs over the life of the building.
 Energy conservation.
 Improved occupant health and productivity.
 Lower costs associated with changing space configurations.
 Greater design flexibility.
 Green Construction Materials
 Green Alternatives available are
 Using sustainable building materials like recycled glass and steel, as well as
renewable materials like bamboo and rubber
 Insulating Concrete Forms, Concrete is poured into forms that serve as insulation
layers and remain in place as a permanent part of the structure.
 Using lower-VOC (volatile organic compounds) paints and stains
 Constructing green roof systems (aka “plants on your roof”) that offer many
benefits, including on-site gardens, rainwater management, and protecting your
roof from the effects of harmful UV light
 Adding water harvesting and purification systems that don’t just manage, but also
make the most use of rainfall
 Using renewable energy to power the building—for example, installing a
commercial solar panel system, wind mill system etc
 UAE’s very own Green Approach
 The green buildings regulations and specifications in Dubai:
His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid AlMaktoum- Vise president,
Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai, the mind behind the masterpiece,
that is Dubai, encouraged creating a health-friendly and sustainable
environmental development, which is about achieving a balance
between the economic development and environmental protection. His
vision has led to the creation of Dubai’s Green Buildings Regulations
and Specification project according to the Circular no.(198) (Circular is
only available in Arabic), which is considered to be one of the most
important legislation adopted by the government to protect the
environment and its natural resources as well as to ensure people’s
health and welfare.
 UAE’s very own Green Approach
 The green buildings regulations and specifications in Dubai:
The regulations were written after extensively researching and
studying several international green buildings rating systems and
adopting only those that suit the UAE’s environment, economy and
culture. Hence, in January 2011, as a first step towards implementing
the strategy, Dubai municipality made the green buildings regulations
and specification mandatory for governmental buildings and voluntary
on for private ones. As in march 2014, when a total of 44 green
governmental buildings had been constructed, the Dubai municipality
took a second step towards implementing the strategy, and made the
regulations mandatory for all new buildings in Dubai.
- Source Dubai Municipality Website
 https://www.dm.gov.ae/en/Business/PlanningAndConstruction/GreenBuildings/Pages/Green-Building-in-
Dubai.aspx
Sustainable/ Green Spaces
Case Studies
Sustainable/Green Building – Case study 1

 ECO HOME: A House without Power, Water & Sewer

connections
A completely self sufficient home equipped with
sustainable solutions for green lifestyle.
 They Generate their own power
 Recycle the waste water

 Grow their own food

 Collect and store the rain water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5gzj0bmq0
 Sustainable/Green City – Case study 2

First operational net zero energy city in Dubai. The Sustainable City Dubai has been
built to conserve energy in order to sustain the environment. The holistic society
features nature-inspired architecture, providing its citizens with a pure and fresh
residential environment. Deemed as the best green project in the GCC by Emirates
Project Magazine, the community includes solar panels, energy-efficient
appliances and car-free zones in both residential and commercial units. Till date, the
community has saved 6,741 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, attesting to its
sustainability plan.
In terms of keeping the ambience of the community free of pollution, the residents of
The Sustainable City are highly encouraged to utilize public transport and drive
electrically-charged cars. The electric buses which run in the community for transport
of the residents steer clear of pollution, adding ease to their lifestyle. Since the buses
are electrically charged, they are free of cost for the commuters It also boast state of
art Urban farming domes which enables the residents to grow local produce
Visit below link for further details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCKz8ykyI2E
 Masdar: The City of the Future - Case study 3

Masdar City is a project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

Its core is a planned city, which is being built by the Abu Dhabi
Future Energy Company, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development
Company. The city will rely entirely on solar energy and other
renewable energy sources, with a sustainable, zero-carbon, zero-
waste ecology.
Masdar City Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIaz61zpLfs
Masdar City Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ohXTnIxzA
 Masdar City – Case Study 4

 Building Green - Masdar City, exploring the future

Abu Dhabi is the biggest city of the United Arab Emirates sitting in the heart of the oil rich
Persian Gulf. Oil represents more than two thirds of this city state’s economy and with such
easy access to all that black gold, the citizens of Abu Dhabi have become one of the most
polluting on earth. Cheap fuel means big cars, year round air conditioning and sweet
water which comes from an energy intensive desalination process. And yet Abu Dhabi
recently announced one of the most ambitious development projects in the world.
The construction of Masdar, the world’s first zero carbon, zero waste, car free city. The
22 billion dollar project when it’s finished, will be home to 40, 000 people, an academic
institute, a manufacturing hub for solar power and desalination, have no greenhouse gas
emissions, no waste and a personal transport system instead of cars.
The complete documentary can be followed on the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfOVIhGuI4A

Source Credit : Best Documentary