How to build green homes??

I feel in almost all localities, nature has provided us with some wonderful materials to build with. Because these materials require little processing or transporting, the environmental and economic costs are low. Some are renewable resources like trees and straw, and some may be so abundant that their supply seems almost inexhaustible like rocks and sand. One of the beauties of building with local materials is that they seem to fit well with the feeling of the place, naturally.

DON'T cut trees and don't destroy greenery. House must be built up which are weather proof well ventilated. conservation of water should be arranged.Solar energy must be utalised for lighting and cooking.Conserve available greenery and thy to develop green belt in sorrounding area.This is the best way I could think of for a green house.Building should be well ventilated & should be able to get maximum day light ,it may coserve energy and help in reducing energy requirment .It may be a service to nation.

I think we must build contruction building from trees & let him life & growth (like TARZAN, Bird) very very natural.

We all understand that to build green Homes we have to invariably use technologies and materials that directly or indirectly affect the environment. In the name of comfort,Tecnology and science seem to be doing more harm to nature thereby to ourselves and our successive generation than make this world a better place to live healthy and peacefully.

We have debated in these communities on which materials can be green,what procedures are green,and how certification can make you green!

I feel practically, all of us will and already used materials like wood for furnitures in a major way and for windows and doors etc to a certain extent.Also we use other materials whose process are not making the world any greener

So what you and me definitely can value add is to

1. Allow space around your houses(if individual houses) to grow at least 2 trees in your lifetime
2. If in flats ,plant trees in the garden space allowed/ask (educate) the developer to leave sufficient space to plant trees(not lawn)/select flats where sufficient greenery is prioritized
3. If both the above are not practical,Plant and care for trees on road sude/park/or nearby reserve forest area/zoos/sanctuaries.
4. Make the above idea part of daily life

Caring for a tree outside your place is not a impossible thing.If we take the garbage to throw in the bin some distance away from home ,we can also water aplant/tree in the same way.

Hoping,Perhaps our progeny also will do the same.

I think they should follow green specification guidelines, to assist  to get the green home as we want. These guidelines include a description of the energy efficient skin, high performance and reasonably priced windows and doors, and recommendations for heating and cooling systems.
Complete sets of building plans and specification guidelines using green and healthy materials and systems are included. It should reaching zero energy fossil fuel use. Materials employed include: Earth,  Wood, Straw, Bamboo, Stone, Manufactured, and Lightweight Concrete

Sustainable technology is the one, whose main objective is to achieve energy efficiency, eco-friendly and cost effectiveness. The structures built are very efficient and durable .Many organisations and institutes are working on such materials and technologies.

The Four reurements Heat, Ventilation and Air conditioning need more power and fossil fuel. 

Keeping the home warm by using flooring by wooden tiles  can lessen the use of fossil fule to keep the heating energy for the home minimum.

Ventilation by Proper Orientation of the the house : Facilitates the natural light and air circulate inside the house will lessen the artificial ventilation requirement of the  rooms .

Lessening the requirement of Air Conditioning by provision of cavity walls Finned windows.Cavity wall lessen the solar radiation and conduction of heat into the homes. Finned windows make the air passing into the home cooler by the venturi effect. 

By innovating the buiding design, these three main requiremnets will be met with by harnessing natural resources and provide solution for greener homes.These measures ensures reduction of electricity for heating and lighting; And also reduces emittance of the chloro fluro carbons (used widely air conditioning equipment).

echo houses can be the best green house,please go ahead to read my topic for this as could this be your new house.

Construction techniques for homes & green homes or other structures remains same at every stage.No special or exclusive technique for green homes is being adopted as the entire sequence of construction is same. Impact on Environment make Green home special .Impact is a combined result of location,orientation & layout , materials used , energy systems and methodology adopted etc. etc.

One way we can minimize forest destruction is to use recyclable materials for our formworks and due to the following properties of plastic it a good condidate for formworks material;

1. Easily re-molded

2. Light weight

3. Workability

4. Abundance

We just need to device a way to make plastic more durable. 

Water saving plumbing system like flushing tank where normally people use a flushing system which flushes 9ltrs. or more at one time, but there are system which can flush 2.5ltrs.(small flush) and 4.5ltrs.(big flush) this way one can save water.

Now a Days Green Building concept is One of the Marketing Tools for the Real Estate field. Green Building homes mainly consist Water efficincy system,Energy & Atomosphere,Material& Resources and Innovation & Design Process.

Whereas in individual Villa (or) Houses two things should be consider (or) following ,One is providing Rainwater Harvesting system,Roof top rain water  collection system  and secondly allow (or) utilize the  Natural Light sources inside of building then installed the SolarPanel and Solar lighting system etc...

For new building,New HVAC equibment in the base building  avoid CFCs(chlorofluorocarbons) Refrigerants.Which can be replaced by HCFCs refrigerants.

 Apart from these Energy renewable source system(Solar Lighting,Wind Mille etc..) also availabel which is suitable for Industrial,commericial ,Institutional type of Building.

Eventually Integrated operation shall be need for acheived the Green Building concept in india ......not only india entire world.

Let's make India as Green Environment and Pollutant free country.

using local market

No doubt that, the landscape of the house determined to be constructed needs to be green (mean to say with grass, trees , unspoilt environ). Over and above, equipment used can be reduced as much as possible so that, energy consumption and CO2 production is reduced. Also, energy used for various activity can be solar / bio-gas from wastes. For example, direct sunlight can be planned to be there for a maximum period of the day, solar activated pumps / motors / heaters can best be used. Bio-gas that can be produced from food/vegetable wastes etc for cooking etc be planned. Use non-burnt bricks / cut-rocks etc for wall.There are electrical, plumbing material thats are marked as Go-green that help reduce consumption of power. Automatic switch off lights when it is possible

Developers & Town Planners can change the scenario in a big way by introducing and developing the Colonies with Green Home concepts. I think we can contribute a lot by developing such colonies and implementing the concepts . A colony can have so many things built in which an individual can't . The colonies can be developed on the concept of self sufficient and can include a lot to achieve the target.This will further reduce the cost . 

I suggest to provide more natural light and air to build green houses. And City devolopment authority should make it mandatory to plant at least 2 trees for each house when issuing license to build the house.

In our residential buidings we provide heavy curtains to avoid mainly the heat to come in. But in the process we cut the light also and incur lot of cost in artificial lighting even during day time. In order to save on lighting expenses during day time it is important to design our houses / offices to allow maximum of natural light without the heat. Sunfilms on the glasses can be good solutions. Other cheaper methods are invited to be discussed for better evolution.

Materials proposed for construction should also be Environmental friendly  not only in terms of energy / heat but it  also protects environment . We can use recycled materials for the construction .Non structural members of the buildings i.e. members not subjected to forces can be constructed by using recycled materials. Use of recycled materials will help to save the most valuable land for other multiple uses. As lot of solid waste acquiring  most valuable space can be put to a great use by mixing with binding materials etc. which will be a cheapest and value adding  disposal of the solid waste saving lot of funds and land.Will this not be a real environment friendly and increasing the green.

Sushil Bansal