What is a Green Building and Benefits of Green Building?

We all talk about going green and everyone is following to be part of this green movement to make sure that we all together can put our best to save those natural resources which are actually needed for our survival. Going green is crucial because the earth is not as sustainable now as it was earlier and going forward if degradation of the environment continues, it will affect badly to the long-term survival. In the course of this green movement, now we are also talking about green buildings. Let us understand what green building is then and its major benefits to our environment.

Green Building:

A building creates a scenario where its design, its construction or other factors help to reduce negative effects and increases the positive effects on our environment or natural climates. Green building, in turn, helps to save those natural resources which are needed for our survival and thus helps of improving our quality of life.

Following are few things which are part of consideration while bringing a green building:

1. Waste reduction measure

2. Benefits of Green Building:

There are various benefits from any green building but if we need to categories the benefits majorly, it can be basically grouped into three major categories i.e. Social impacts, environmental impacts, and economic impacts.

2. Social Impacts:

Better the environment, better the score of brain function. Not only this, it has been researched and understood that greener environment tends to give more productivity from the same employee compared to productivity given in nongreen environment. Moreover, having a green building gives a kind of mental peace and relaxation even after office hours. Similarly, when green building is for residents, occupants tend to be healthier, happier and more productive in nature.

3. Environmental Impacts:

Actually, the most important benefit any green building can have is having a positive effect on the natural environment and climate by reducing the negative effect of pollution, etc. As pointed above, when green building is focused on using renewable energies, recyclable materials, etc, it gives a direct positive impact on our environment. It is one of the benefits of green building that it can limit of rising of temperature by 2 degree Celsius. Also, it reduces usage of water to the extent of even 50% in some cases. When it comes to greenhouse gas emission i.e. CO2 (carbon gas), it has been recorded that any green building helps to reduce the general of carbon gas which is harmful to the environment and the same can go o the extent of a reduction of carbon by 20-40% also. Apart from water savings, energy saving is also major benefits when it comes to counting of use of less natural resources.

4. Economic Impact:

Having it positive impact on society and environment, green building also holds several economic benefits and these benefits rages from person to person economically. Let it be globally, country wise or to the extent of just building wise economic calculations, green building helps to save a lot and also helps to hold the maximum possible asset value of the said building.

Having a green building is the next era of construction and it is needed to be considered more than any other thing while constructing a building because it has so many long-term benefits which can’t be ignored easily.