What is Sustainability in a Building?

It is commonly referred to as Green Building, Building Sustainability, High Performance, Net-Zero Building, Carbon Neutral, etc., and is measured by various certification bodies worldwide promoted by their governments according to the climatic conditions. IGBC and GRIHA are the certification bodies promoted by India for the Indian climate.

What is Green Building?

Green building is a holistic concept that starts with the understanding that the built environment can have profound effects, both positive and negative, on the natural environment, as well as the people who inhabit buildings every day. Green building is an effort to amplify the positive and mitigate the negative of these effects throughout the entire life cycle of a building.

While there are many different definitions of green building out there, it is generally accepted as the planning, design, construction, and operations of buildings with several central, foremost considerations:

Energy use, Water use, Indoor environmental quality, Material section
and the building’s effects on its site.