The document discusses sustainable habitats and green buildings. It defines a sustainable habitat as an ecosystem that provides food and shelter without resource depletion or waste, such as one built with recycled materials and renewable energy. Designing sustainable habitats can mimic nature and requires collaboration between environmental scientists, designers, engineers and architects. Key goals are to minimize resource use, maximize energy and water efficiency, and identify ways to protect the environment while living. Green buildings similarly aim to optimally use resources, conserve nature, generate less waste, and provide healthy environments for occupants.
2. Basic concept of Sustainable Habitat
• The state of continuing for a long time is known as sustainability
• Buildings, their construction, operation and maintenance demands
almost two-third of global energy demand
• Commercial and residential buildings accounts for more than 30% of
electricity consumption
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3. Basic concept of Sustainable Habitat
• A sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter
for people and other organisms without resource depletion and
external wastes
• A sustainable home is one that environmentally friendly, built from
recycled materials and runs on renewable energy sources
• It may be evolved naturally or produced under human influence
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4. Basic concept of Sustainable Habitat
• A sustainable habitat that created and designed by human
intelligence may mimic nature
• Combined efforts from environmental scientists, designers, engineers,
architects for constructing a sustainable habitat
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5. Basic concept of Sustainable Habitat
• While designing a sustainable habitat there should be two goals in
our mind
• Incorporate design concepts that minimize resource use, maximize
energy and water efficiency, eliminate exposure to toxic environment
etc
• Identify ways and means to live by protecting environment
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6. Basic concept of Sustainable Habitat
• Many sustainable habitats uses solar energy, which will provide hot
water and electricity
• Landscape with native plants
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7. Green Building
• Green buildings are those which use optimum resources and energy,
conserve the natural resources, generate less waste and provide a
healthy environment for the occupants
• Green buildings helps to achieve comfort durability, utility and
economy with minimum harm to the environment
• Green building =green construction= sustainable building
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9. Green Building- Objectives
• Reduces energy consumption
• Reduced destruction of natural areas habitat and bio diversity
• Reduced air and water pollution
• Reduced water consumption
• Minimum waste generation due to recycling and reuse 9
