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B. Sustainable design creates solutions that solve the economic, social, and environmental
challenges of the project simultaneously, and these solutions are powered by sustainable
energies.
Green architecture, or green design, is an approach to building that minimizes harmful effects
on human health and the environment.
A. Green building is about turning the promises of sustainability into reality.
B. Since the 1990s, the media has often talked about green or sustainable buildings.
C. Sustainable buildings are those that have been designed deliberately to have a minimal
impact on the environment.
D. A partial list of things designers might consider when doing a sustainable building
includes decreasing resource consumption during construction and operation, the source
and composition of a buildings materials, and siting a building to minimize
environmental damage and soil erosion.
1. Its construction reduces the consumption of natural resources, like wood from old
growth forests.
2. Most of its construction waste is recycled or reused rather than sent to landfills.
3. Its operation reduces the consumption and costs of energy and water.
4. The development footprint is limited, open space is restored and enhanced, and
landscape architecture is designed to provide wildlife habitat, stormwater
management, and beauty with minimal water consumption and maintenance.
5. The site and building designs minimize or eliminate heat islands-asphalt and
other dark, non-reflective surfaces on roofs, walkways, roads and parking lots
that absorb and slowly release solar heat. Heat islands raise surrounding
temperatures by as much as 10 degrees, increasing both heating, ventilation, and
air conditioning loads and landscape irrigation needs.
6. The majority of the interior spaces have natural daylighting and outdoor views
7. Highly efficient HVAC systems and low VOC (volatile organic compound)
materials like paint, flooring, and furniture are used to improve the indoor
environmental air quality.
8. Building materials, from structural steel to carpenting and furniture, have
recycled content.
There are many goals that motivate the planning and design of green buildings.
A. There are goals that address environmental degradation.
1. Green buildings mitigate global warming through energy conservation, reduction
of GHG emissions, and carbon sequestration.
2. Green buildings minimize environmental impacts.
3. Green buildings reduce pollution of air, water, and soil.
4. Green buildings reduce light pollution that can disrupt nocturnal ecosystems.
B. There are goals providing for improved human health and comfort.
1. Green buildings improve indoor air and water quality.
2. Green buildings increase thermal comfort.
3. Green buildings improve morale.
C. There are goals that are economic in nature.
1. Green buildings reduce energy costs.
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