Benefits of green building and ecological
One thing is clear to us, we must respect nature and the environment if we want to have a more sustainable future and promising. Among the different strategies that we can to consider in order to advance coherently, there is the construction of greener buildings s or that respect the environment environment and its occupants.
But how do buildings and homes influence the environment? environment. So that we have an idea, in the following graph we see the common sources of greenhouse gases greenhouse that affect us directly, and, mainly, in cities:
Most companies, come to the ‘ green building ‘ as a luxury with high costs in materials, installations, and right down to design, to meet LEED standards in buildings (Leader in Energy Efficiency and Design) to give an example.
One of the disadvantages tested in society is that it does not adequately explains what are the advantages of green buildings vs. construction traditional. But…
Why is green building necessary? buildings? Buildings, including resources used to create them, energy, materials and water necessary to build them and that they are in operation, produce a considerable effect on the environment, the environment environment, climate change and human health.
On average, as indicated in this report, buildings are responsible for the following:
- They are responsible for 14% of water consumption drinkable.
- They are responsible for 30% of the production of waste.
- They are responsible for 40% of the use of raw materials.
- They are responsible for 38% of carbon dioxide emissions carbon.
- They are responsible for 24% to 50% of the use of the energy.
- They are responsible for 72% of the consumption of electricity.
That's true, those costs are real, but what about the economic benefits they bring to the owners and occupants?…
From the perspective of buildings and understanding their benefits, in the following article we can see an example architecture on a green building that really amazes observers.
We can list some advantages of the building green :
- Higher value from market , Since they are in greater demand, they are constructions of greater quality, and they are scarce. For an owner of a building (of offices and/or commercial) with LEED certification operated in rent, business profits will mainly come of the highest incomes, with better occupancy rates and rent, at a lower risk. For the occupants , will provide an 'image green public sector', will have lower operating costs and maintenance, increased employee productivity, at a less risk too.
- Lower costs . The savings that building that works with less energy, and that needs less maintenance, will serve to amortize the cost of making the sustainable building.
- Higher income . Being more requested, these constructions have rates of lower vacancies (3.5%), but also their income from rent are 13% higher than those of buildings Non-LEED. To these revenues should be added those from for a greater productivity of the employees* , which provides an impact of €215/m 2 .
- The happiest occupants . Awareness environmental matters and people's health, even more, are buildings designed to improve the health of the people.
- They are buildings that cost less than keep r. Since the construction has been designed to be optimized in your expenses, invoices per month are drastically reduced. An advantage will matter for many families.
- They provide immediate results . A Once the building is built, the benefits are immediate; savings, health, etc. No long strategy needed term.
- Improve the environment . Since they have been designer to optimize resources, consume and produce less matter so they need fewer resources from the environment for its operation respecting the environment more.
Today, the awareness of companies little by little Little is changing in favor of a more sustainable building and with less costs in the useful life of the Building. And of course, also in its occupants, an example is the tendency to have gardens inside the houses and we can see it in the article on vertical gardens in homes and buildings.
