GREEN BUILDING SOLUTIONS
Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
‘GREEN BUILDINGS & THERMAL INSULATION’
WHAT MAKES A BUILDING ‘GREEN’ ?
Green design measures
- Reduce operating costs,
- Enhance building marketability,
- Increase worker productivity (16% gains reported) ,
- Reduce potential liability resulting from indoor air quality problems.
Thus, green building design has
1. environmental
2. economic
3. and social
elements that benefit all building stakeholders, including owners, occupants and the general public.
WHY DO WE NEED TO GO GREEN ?
- Reduce operating costs,
- Making them green could save up to 50% of energy demand and thus reduce overall power generation needs.
- Urbanized development shifts land usage away from natural, biologically-diverse habitats to landscapes devoid of biodiversity. This causes adverse effects on the occupant’s health and well-being.
- Green building practices can substantially reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts and improve existing unsustainable design, construction and operational practices.
FEATURES OF ‘PASSIVE’ DESIGN
• Reduction of energy consumption (by >90% ) for heating, cooling & other purpose
By
• Well insulated building envelope for air tight roof, walls and floor
To
• Minimise internal heat loss or gain
And
• Maximise use of Solar gain, natural light & ventilation
BENFIT – net zero conventional energy needed (from
external sources) to maintain consistent and
comfortable indoor temperature
1 UNIT OF ENERGY SAVED = COST OF 3 UNITS (produced & supplied) !
EIFS or ETICS (as it is called in Europe), is a complete wall insulating composite system, which is made up of multiple layers and uses many components to ensure a well insulated and moisture seepage preventing building walls and openings (doors / windows). The multiple layers are shown in the adjoining drawing. Proper thermal design of the layers can prevent any condensation seepages into air conditioned building walls. The exterior insulation layer ensures that the daily expansion (due to solar heat) of different building materials making the walls, to different extent and their subsequent contraction at night, does not age the building through micro crack formation. Thus the buildings with Reliable EIFS protection do not grow old and require minimal maintenance.
