Green Building FAQ’s

1.       What is green building? It is a design approach that goes beyond conventional building design by integrating the following elements:  sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, indoor environmental quality and innovation.  It requires an integrated design process that considers the many disparate parts of a building project and examines the interaction between design, construction and operations to optimize the energy and environmental performance of the project.  The strength of this process is that all relevant issues are considered simultaneously in order to solve many problems with one solution. 2.       What is sustainability? The standard definition was…

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