The Definition and Importance of Green Building

Green building can be defined as the practice for increasing the efficiency with which building and their sites can easily make use of energy, water and various kinds of materials. This focuses on reducing or minimizing of building impact on human health and environment, by making use of siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance and removal throughout complete cycle of life (Ma et al., 2016). In last few years green building movement has gained huge amount of movement while its origin can be easily traced in the late centuries of nineteen. The amount of energy consumption has resulted in the ability for viability tenable and dependency upon the available cost and other kinds of parameters. During the span of time various architectures, ecologists have resulted in growing of environmental movement and higher fuel cost where encountered which ultimately resulted in green building movement. The idea of green building has ultimately resulted in creation of immense kind of importance in the various kinds of importance in many of developing countries (Kibert, 2016). Green building focus on fact of reducing of waste and cost of construction. With increase in the concept of urbanization the natural resources were ultimately used in implementation of green building and this idea has led to making use of natural resource. The concept of green building is totally based on three basic rules that is Reduce, Reuse and recycle.

In the coming pages of the report a literature review has been done on green building which is inclusive of delivery models and various kinds of context. It has ultimately led to development of methodology for this green building idea. The report also focuses on making use of methodology from the idea from implementation of green building.

The idea of green building is used on large scale for sustainability for large number of ideas. Sustainability can be defined as a proper concept which focus on economic, social, institutional and various kinds of concept which are related to economic and environment aspects of various human society (Zuo & Zhao, 2014). It generally focuses on means for configuration of civilization and human activity for society and its various kinds of members for its economics for meeting needs and providing potential for it. It also focuses on preserving of biodiversity and natural ecosystem for maintaining ideality for a longer period of time. Sustainability also affects the various levels of an organization which ranges from local neighborhood to the entire kind of planet (Ye et al., 2015). At present green building can be defined as a one of the rapidly growing idea in terms of concepts of building and design. Architecture, designers and homeowners have mostly become infatuated with the various kinds of possibilities of energy saving emphasis. It also focuses on nature of green building processes.

Organizations Involved in Green Building

USGBC stands for United States Green Building Council is considered to be foremost leader and educator within the idea of green building. USGBC is mainly created for promotion of design and construction of building which are responsible environmentally, profitable and providing healthy place for living and work (Olubunmi, Xia & Skitmore, 2016). It is much focused on providing on providing integrated building industry sectors and leading a proper market for transformation towards greener kind of construction. The organization is much on various kinds of trade of associations, architecture and designers and various kinds of individual for greening in construction industry.

BDM group is a well-known Australian construction organization which is based in Brisbane Australia. This particular organization includes a large number group of organization which ranges from BDM construction, BMD industry and lastly empower (Ahmad, Thaheem & Anwar, 2016). This organization is much focused in building roads and various kinds of bridges for state government.

BDM group is mainly associated with building of LEED standard buildings. LEED stands for leadership in energy and environmental design is nothing but a system which is used for designing, construction and certification of green buildings. Building are generally classified as Platinum, silver, Gold varying on number of points which is acquired in six number of building components that is suitable sites, efficiency of water, various materials and resources, energy and atmosphere, indoor quality of environment, various design process and innovation (Olubunmi, Xia & Skitmore, 2016). With this kind of categories there are specific number of credits which are available for many kinds of subcategories. LEED ratings are rapidly becoming boasting points for large number of property owners round the globe. It is considered to be important parameter for property value for LEED certified building skyrocketing.

LEED is mainly used for assistance of success in early kind of adaptation in various kinds of government agencies (Alias et al., 2015). It is generally considered to be used in various kinds of LEED based projects which is growing on early basis. There are large number of characteristics of LEED buildings like

• Site of a building which has a close kind of proximity sensor for various kinds of commuter rail or bus lanes which is used for reducing pollution and various kinds of land development which impacts are associated with usage of automobile.
• Establishment of specifications which can be used for maintaining the present level of water from storm run off or it also decreases the amount of imperviousness which generally exists during a particular kind of onsite.
• It focuses on the development of a number of site with a minimum amount of density of area sixty square feet in the acre. Channeling kinds of development focus on development of urban areas along with existing kind of infrastructure which protects the green spaces and also preserves the various kinds of natural habitats and many kinds of resources.

Assumption 

Assumption is considered to be an important tool for development of proper risk management plan (Alias et al. 2015). In project delivery system it is the duty of manager to identify all the assumption which can be made for successful delivery of project.

Constraints 

Constraints can be defined as a limitation which is generally imposed on a project. It can be in terms of various domains like resources, cost and schedule (Darko et al. 2017). Various kinds of projects come up with constraint which are mainly identified in the beginning phase of any project. There are mainly six kind of project constraints namely quality, schedule, resource and lastly budget (Gibbs, D., & O’Neill, 2015). In general constraint are of two type in project delivery models like business constraints, technical constraints. Technical constraint in general provides a limit of choice.  

Tools Used in Green Building Implementation

Scope of project mainly focus on details of deliverable features of a project. The required deliverables are mainly derived from the requirements of a project. There are mainly phase of project scope management that are planning, controlling and lastly closing (Gou & Xie, 2017). Planning can be defined as an attempt which is made for capturing and defining the work which is need to be done. While controlling and monitoring process focus on tracking of various kinds of documents. The last phase is all about closing which focus on auditing of various deliverables of project and along with it provides an outcome of origin plan of the report.

Scope statement of a project can be defined as an essential of a project. Project managers makes use of scope statement for providing written confirmation of various outputs of a project (Green & Haines, 2015). A scope statement is mainly inclusive of following things like proper justification, description of scope definition, deliverable of a project and lastly any kind of assumption made in the project.

WBS or work breakdown is considered to mainly manages team work into proper kind of manageable sections (Huo, Ann & Wu, 2017). WBS is considered to be an important parameter for understanding the various aspects of project delivery system. WBS has large number of benefits like defining and organizing of project. The budget of project delivery is generally placed on the top of work breakdown structure. By providing proper time and cost the schedule of project and budget can be easily developed.

The SB method is nothing but a framework which is used for rating of suitable performance on various kinds of building and projects (Gibbs & O’Neill, 2015). It also focuses on certain number of toolkit which can be used for development of SB tool rating system. This tool is mainly used by authorized kind of third parties for establishment of adapted SB tool as a kind of rating system for suiting their own kinds of region and various kinds of building types.

It is also used by various kinds of owners and managers of large organization for building portfolios for expressing details of the way in which their suitability requirements for internal kinds of staff and beneficial materials for large number of competitors (Zuo et al., 2017). The system generally covers a large number of systematic issues which not only has issues of sustainability but with green buildings (Yang, Zou & Wang, 2016). SB methods generally takes into account region specific and site specific related factors which is used for context factors and which are used for switch off and reducing of certain number of weights and providing details related to information for all the parties which are available.

The Role of Natural Resources in Green Building

• Making use of building materials and certain number of products which generally contains post cycle contents.
• Providing right amount of regional support for products which are being manufacture.
• Encouraging of various kinds of environment based forest by making use of wood or wood based materials which makes use of forest stewardship which is used for various kinds of woods based building concepts.
• Green building focus on various kinds of renewable materials like bamboo flooring, wool carpets, strawboard or popular kind of oriented strand boards.

• It focuses on development of waste management plan which mainly diverts a sustainable amount of construction, demolition and clearing of landfills for recycling of products (Gou & Xie, 2017).
• It aims in reducing a certain percentage of salvage which can be obtained from construction, demolition or clearing of land as a method of building material.

Energy and working atmosphere

• Generation of various kinds of electricity site from list of renewable resources like solar, geothermal or any kind of biogas source.
• Elimination of resources by making use of CFCs in various kinds of heating ventilation, air conditioning and various kinds of refrigerator system. It also focuses on elimination of use of CFCs for reducing the ozone depletion (Roh et al., 2016).
• It also contracts with green power provider for purchasing of building electricity which is generated from renewable resources like wind, solar, biomass or low impact on various kinds of hydro resources.
• It focuses on optimization of various kinds of energy resources.

Water Management

• It focuses on installation of water efficient or low flow kinds of equipment’s and various kinds of appliances in kitchen and various bathroom for reduction of water consumption.
• Making use of water efficient irrigation which is captured from rain or site cycled which is used for onsite kind of landscaping.
• Making use of innovative wastewater technologies like treating of waste water on site for decreasing the significant amount of portable water for sewage.

Indoor Environment

• Design of HVAC system for enveloping of building for providing most optimal kind of delivery and mixing with fresh kind of air. It also focuses on effective kind of air exchange which supports safety, comfort and wellbeing of large number of components (Roh et al., 2016).
• It also addresses the number of indoor air contamination by proper kinds of selection of paints and various kinds of coatings and composite kind of material which emits low VOCs.
• It focuses on segregation of areas for various kinds of chemical use of operations which have separate or exhaust kind of air circulation.
• It focuses on maximization of day lighting and viewing of large number of opportunities. It also addresses day lighting and increasing the view kinds of opportunities’ which focus on saving of cost on energy and improvisation of productivity of worker.

Summary related to project topic  

With the growth in the influence of green building it is generally considered to be imperative to various kinds of natural resources industry as it can do a list of thing for positioning of a product which is being ecofriendly (Roh et al., 2016). Much of the issues mainly arises from misconception of natural stone which addresses strip mining which is environment devastating practice. Under the classification of LEED natural stone stands to be in the origin product. A major kind of issue with green community is the support of local products and business. LEED points are generally available for large number of products which can be used for building site. It is manufactured on regional basis and various kinds of materials are extracted for emittance of greenhouse. SWOT analysis is a method which is used for identification of strength, weakness, opportunities and various kinds of threats (Li et al., 2014). It gives a scan on internal and external environmental condition for a particular organization which can be used for analysing strength or weakness and external issues in the firm can be classified as opportunities or threats. The strength of green building is LCLL that is low carbon living lab, GBES that is Unique Green Building Evaluation standard, Strong kind of support from governmental side, skilled expertise. Low carbon living lab focus on testing bed and demonstration of green building technologies, practical and low cost kind of environment, provides an excellent opportunity for organization for tapping into various kinds of world market (Hwang et al., 2015). GBES aims in producing for fulfilment of requirement of energy, materials and various kinds of activities related to water savings. Various kinds of homes are generally oriented to benefit from daylight and natural kind of ventilation. This kind of building can be considered to be 20 -30% more efficient than standard kind of homes. GBES is considered to be 100% green building as it can easily fetch a higher kind of price for variety of products which is considered to be more kind of prestigious. It has some of kinds of issues like lack of awareness, perception or idea of cost and various kinds of factors which focus on perception of cost and various kinds of factors which focus on low kind of occupancy rate (Yang et al., 2017). It focuses on large challenge towards widespread acceptance of value, it also focuses on accurate kinds of information which impacts green building. It mainly leads to occupancy rate which is generally considered to be ideal kind of value.

SWOT Analysis in Green Building

Surveys on professional kind of people generally provides a vison for various kinds of future trends and a professional which is mainly present in the industry. The ultimate kind of factor focus a reflection on higher cost on green building. Such kind of analysis for a strategic environment is known to be SWOT analysis (Mensah?Attipoe et al., 2015). It is included for various ranges of green cost variables which is used for expansion of development and commissioning. If it based on SWOT analysis this paper focus on various kinds of strength, weakness, opportunities and threats for understanding certain number of variables. Quantifying has certain number of methods which gained from higher indoor qualities which are challenging but it has certain number of disadvantages. The review methods provide a good kind of methods which is used for estimation of different aspects of cost variable (Wu et al., 2016). Analyzing certain number of benefits are generally gained from various kinds of indoor qualities which is considered to be extremely challenging on the contrary it has certain number of challenges on success and financial outcomes of an organization.

With respect to cost of green building are generally divided into two parts namely pre-construction and post construction (Komurlu & Arditi, 2017). Preconstruction is generally inclusive of soft and hard costs. Soft cost is mainly related to design, commissioning and fees for documentation. Hard cost is inclusive of cost of construction, materials and cost of building service cost. Pre-Construction cost focus on building operation cost for energy consumption, use of water, maintenance and management (Illankoon et al., 2017). Benefits is although inclusive of different kinds of savings and financial gains which is used for building construction and phases of post construction such as high value of property of market, higher value of rents, fewer value of vacancies, market related opportunities’ which mainly results from social kinds of benefits. Improved kind of health and productivity is considered to be well documented among office works before and after moving platinum value of LEED rated building.

Green building is well known method is mainly used for making use of high-quality, more energy efficient and various kinds of commercial buildings. Green building can be defined as a well-known method which can be used in high-quality constructions and has low value of environmental impact (Hurmekoski, Pykäläinen & Hetemäki, 2018). This particular study was started by properly searching into green cost. The particular kind of purpose focus on reliable kind of sources which can be used for journal articles, reports and various kinds of conference papers (Zhang et al., 2017). The review kinds of paper focus on cost benefit literature which focus on green benefit literature. Five data collection methods and two kinds of analytical approaches have been identified. Data collection is making inclusive of subjective studies and objective studies, surveys, simulation and lastly meta-analysis (Hwang, Zhao & Tan, 2015). Analytical kind of approaches is classified as unpaired building comparison and paired building comparison. SWOT analysis is nothing but an acronym which can be used for strength, weakness, opportunities and threats (Darko et al., 2017). And everything has been used for particular kind of evaluation. SWOT analytical tool is mainly used for understanding the practicality and simplicity which is used in various kinds of social science. Each kind of methods evaluation will ultimately focus on some kinds of description and some kinds of methods which can be used for SWOT evaluation and various kinds of examples.

Building process has been defined over thousands of years. Progress of green building consist of major kinds of phases like predesign, conceptual design, detail design and documentation, construction and lastly operation and maintenance (Ignatius et al. 2016). Green building aims in reducing various kinds of environmental impact on large number of buildings.

Energy star

It is defined as a government backed organization which mainly focus on improvisation of energy efficiency. It is mainly administered by US Environmental Protection Agency and US department of Energy. It sets certain number of number of standard for energy star rated building which is set is EPA (Ignatius et al., 2016). Their ultimate motto is that energy comes first at all and is founded in 1992. Energy star began as a kind of labelling program which mainly rated various kinds of consumer products. Products inclusive of household appliance and devices like household appliances with energy star label has the capability to save twenty to thirty percent of provided energy.  

For getting rating of a building one needs to submit proper kind of data about the building. This is mainly inclusive of information like total square footage, large number of occupants, number of computers, location (Nguyen et al., 2017). A computer mainly takes data and formulate it into specific figures which again can be used for spending optimal kind of energy spending. This is mainly derived from data which is gathered by the various kinds of departments of energy and energy information for administration (Trowbridge, Worden & Pyke, 2016). After that building is clearly evaluated in comparison to data which is being provided to the data which is being ranked among large number of peers. The top twenty-five percent in each kind of building type generally receives for Energy star label.

At present Energy star has following kinds of building types like

• Bank or other kinds of financial institutes, course houses, hospital, hotels, schools, various offices inclusive of medical, retail store, supermarket and various kinds of warehouse.
• Industrial facilities is inclusive of automobile, assembly portion, cement plants and various kinds of corn refineries.
• Municipal Water Treatment plants.

It also focusses for understanding energy star rated, fifty star rated for per square footage which is generally inclusive of for large number of building categories.

Issues with energy star

Though energy star makes use of strict kind of approach for cutting down on various kinds of energy use it also focus on reduction of various kinds of greenhouse gas emission and saving of money, in many cases it is seen that it fails to look into at various kinds of material for depth (Ahmad, Thaheem & Anwar, 2016). They mainly focus on the various kinds of ways which can be used for having a product in a certain kind of way. Even in the various kinds of cases of harmful kind of environment can be easily diminished by Energy Star (Lee et al., 2017). Along with this there are many kinds of cases of organization which claims to have outdated kind of standard and letting various kinds of organization for providing rating to their own products.

Green Globe

It focuses on providing guidance and kinds of assessment programs which claims to provides ratings regarding program which offers realistic and achievable number of ways for increasing the sustainability and various kinds of commercial buildings. It is administrated by Green building which is initiated taken in United States

By implementation of greener practices an individual can easily take advantage of various environment and economic performance.  It can easily provide a large number of benefits like reduction of wastage of water, conservation of various natural resources, improvisation of quality of air and water and lastly protection of biodiversity and ecosystem. While it comes up with economic benefit like reduction of operating cost, improvisation of productivity, creation of green market. Along with this comes up with social benefits like improving of quality of life, reduction of strain on local kind of infrastructure

Green building comes up with some of some of the disadvantage like location, availability, no features of cooling. Green buildings generally depend on sun for energy so for this reason the building must be located in such a place where they have best sunlight. The various kinds of materials required for this building is very hard to find in areas where its preservation is not the first kind of option available. These building mainly run to generate power of heat, but they are not designed in such a way that they have ventilation system. So a result air conditioners are considered to be very important for this building.

For proper implementation of green building a construction site should have green implemented new kinds of concepts for new as well as existing structures. Green building is mainly focuses to reduce the various number of resources which are utilized during any construction. It focuses of the various use and operation of building thereby reducing various kinds of harmful environment.

The various kinds of stakeholders in green building project are project manager, competitors, design, construction, financial managers, suppliers and functional manager.

What information	Target Audience	When	Method or mode of communication	Provider
Milestone of construction green building project	Senior manager or project manager	On monthly basis	Email or hard copy	Project office
Team status report	Project manager and project office	On weekly basis	Email	Team recorder
Escalation report	Customer and staff	On monthly basis	Various meeting and hardcopy	Project manager

Various kinds of risk in green building are brand and competitive edge, education, return of investment and lastly management of supply chain. Brand value focus on potential kind of green design along with brand of organization and its reputation (Illankoon et al. 2017). Education mainly involves to have proper experience and education with respect to various green building environment. ROI mainly checks whether benefits of green challenges the cost involved in it.

Governance can be defined as a large number of policies, functions, regulation and responsibilities which mainly defines establishment, management and control of projects. Good kind of governance can be easily seen it(Juan, Hsu & Xie, 2017). The ultimate notion of green building is avoiding of some common reasons of failure, motivating staff members by providing good kind of communication.  

Conclusion 

From the above discussion it can be concluded that this report is all about green building which is nothing but a practice which is used for increasing the efficiency by which buildings and large number of sites can easily make of use of water and other kinds of materials. In the above pages of this report a literature review has been done on the main topic of green building delivery models. Various kinds of parameters like USBGC (United States Green Building Council) and LEED (Leadership in energy and environmental design) has been discussed in details. An idea has been provided regarding SB tool which is nothing but a framework for various kinds of building materials. An idea has been provided regarding various kinds of materials and choosing for right quality of products. After that an analysis has been done on construction and demolition of various kinds of waste management. It also addresses various kinds of issues related to energy and working atmosphere. Other kinds of parameters like water management, indoor environment, stone in green building and after that a SWOT analysis has been done on Green Building. A proper kind of methodology has been developed for green building delivery system. An analysis has been done on analytical hierarchy process. After that an analysis has been done on energy star for large number of equipment’s. Various kinds of issues have been discussed with respect to energy star. An idea has been provided regarding Green globe for various green building projects. An analysis has been provided regarding implementation of green building for green building projects. Green Seal environment standards has been discussed with respect to project. An analysis has been done regarding green building materials along with various kinds of things like bamboo. Other kinds of parameters like low VOC paint, recycled denim insulation has been discussed in details with respect to project.

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