This document discusses green buildings and their importance. It defines green buildings as those that are efficiently designed and constructed to reduce environmental impacts over their lifespan. Green buildings provide environmental, economic and social benefits such as reduced emissions, operating costs and improved health. The document outlines the objectives, principles and rating system of the Indian Green Building Council which promotes sustainability in Indian construction. It also highlights several examples of green building projects in India and their differences from conventional buildings.

1. Green Building & It’s
Importance.
BY
MADHU.KONETI {1210216144}

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
 What is a Green Building?
 Why is Green Building important?
 Benefits of Green Buildings
 Objectives
 Fundamental Principles
 Indian Green Building Council {IGBC}
 IGBC Rating System
 Green Building Projects
 Different from other Buildings
 Increasing Green Buildings in India
 Conclusions

3. What is a GREEN BUILDING ?
 Green building, or sustainable design, is the practice of increasing the efficiency
with which buildings and their sites use energy, water, and materials, and of
reducing impacts on human health and the environment for the entire lifecycle of
a building. Green-building concepts extend beyond the walls of buildings and
include site planning, community and land-use planning issues as well.
 There are a number of features which can make a building ‘green’. These
include:
1. Efficient use of energy, water and other resources
2. Use of renewable energy, such as solar energy
3. Pollution and waste reduction measures, and the enabling of re-use and recycling
4. Good indoor environmental air quality
5. Use of materials that are non-toxic, ethical and sustainable
6. Consideration of the environment in design, construction and operation
7. Consideration of the quality of life of occupants in design, construction and

5. Why is GREEN BUILDING important ?
 The growth and development of our communities has a large impact on our
natural environment. The manufacturing, design, construction and
operation of the buildings in which we live and work are responsible for the
consumption of many of our natural resources.
 Benefits of Green Building:
Environmental benefits of green building:
1. Enhance and protect biodiversity and ecosystems
2. Improve air and water quality
3. Reduce waste streams
4. Conserve and restore natural resources.

6. Economic benefits of green building:
1. Reduce operating costs
2. Improve occupant productivity
3. Enhance asset value and profits
4. Optimize life-cycle economic performance
Social benefits of green building:
1. Enhance occupant health and comfort
2. Improve indoor air quality
3. Minimize strain on local utility infrastructure
4. Improve overall quality of life

7. Objectives of Green Building
 Green Buildings are designed to reduce the overall
impact on human health and the natural
environment by the following ways:
1. Using Energy , Water , and other resources
efficiently.
2. By reducing Waste , Pollution & Environmental
degradation.

8. Fundamental
Principles
 Structure Design Efficiency
 Energy Efficiency
 Water Efficiency
 Materials Efficiency
 Waste & Toxic reduction

9. Structure Efficiency
I. It is the concept of
sustainable building
and has largest
impact on cost and
performance.
II. It aims to minimise
the environment
impact associated

10. Energy
Efficiency
I. The Layout of the
construction can
be strategised so
that natural light
pours for
additional
warmth.
II. Shading the roof
with Trees offers
an eco-friendly
alternative to air

11. Water
Efficiency
I. To reduce
water
consumption
one should
aim to use the
water which
has been
collected , use
, purified and

12. Material
Efficiency
I. Materials should
be used which can
be recycled and
can generate
surplus amount of
energy.
II. An example of this
are solar power
panels , not only
they provide
lightening but

13. Waste and Reduction
I. It is probable to reuse resources.
II. What may be wasted to us may
have another benefit to something
else.

14. INDIAN GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL
 The INDIAN GREEN
BUILDING COUNCIL
{IGBC} was formed in
the year 2001 by
Confederation of Indian
Industry {CII}.
 The aim of the council
is to bring Green
building movement in
India and facilitate
India to become one of

15. IGBC Rating system
 IGBC has developed green building rating programmes
to cover commercial , residential , factory buildings
etc.
 Each rating system divided into different levels of
certification as follows:
1. ‘Certified’ to recognise best practices .
2. ‘Silver’ to recognise outstanding performance .
3. ‘Gold’ to recognise National excellence.
4. ‘Platinum’ to recognise Global leadership.

16. Green Buildings project in India
 Suzlon energy limited – Pune.
 Bio-diversity conservation India – Bangalore
 Olympia technology park – Chennai
 ITC green centre – Gurgaon
 The Druk white lotus school – Ladakh
 Doon school – Dehradun
 Raintree Hotels – Chennai
 Nokia –Gurgaon
 Rajiv Gandhi International Airport – Hyderabad
 Palais Royale at Worli – Mumbai
 Punjab Forest complex - Mohali

17. Different from other Buildings
 The design , maintenance and construction of
buildings have tremendous effect on our environment
& natural resources.
 Green building is different from other buildings
because it use a minimum amount of non renewable
energy , produce minimal pollution , increases the
comfort health and safety of people who work in
them.
 It also minimise the waste in construction by
recovering materials and reusing or recycling them.

18. Increasing Green Buildings in India
 India now has an
ambitious target of
having 10 billion sq
ft green building
footprint by 2022.
It is expected to
increase the green
footprint by
around 10%.

19. Conclusions
The research identified the exciting developments
taking place on the technology front and analyses
their implications for intelligent and green buildings
, highlighting examples of “ best in class” buildings
employing green and intelligent technologies.
These buildings are dynamic environments that
respond to their occupants changing needs and
lifestyle. This research provides documented
evidence to educate and influence end users ,
building owners , architects , contractors that a “
greener building “ can be achieved using intelligent

20. Images of Green buildings