1. LEED Green Associate Made Easy Course Addenda 12th June 2017
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2. How much Green Buildings Cost more?
Contents
ASHRAE 189.1
Cul De Sacs
Pirus Effect
3 Years SRI requirement
How much Green Buildings Cost more?
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3. ASHRAE 189.1
Green Building Code developed by USGBC,ASHRAE,IES and IGCC
ASHRAE is written in regulatory language where as LEED is voluntary Green Building rating system
Alternate compliance path for International Green Construction code
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4. Cul De Sacs Cul De sacs are dead ended streets
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5. Cul De Sacs Good or Bad
Cul De Sacs is addressed in LEED Homes and LEED ND
LEED discourages Cul De Sacs as it reduces the street networking and connectivity and increases the vehicle miles traveled
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6. Prius Effect
Prius effect is derived from Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle which displays the energy consumption detail in dash board which resulted in cautious driving of owners and reduction in energy consumption
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7. Prius Effect..
The fuel efficiency model of Toyota Prius can be duplicated to a building with building energy dash board which makes the occupants energy conscious
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8. 3 Years aged SRI SRI is the ability of the material to reject heat
High SRI coatings generally perform well initially but the reflectance of the surface reduces with the age
Hence LEED V4 requires compliance for both initial SRI and 3 years aged SRI
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9. How much Green Buildings cost more?
The article below discusses cost vs benefit in detail
Study by the firm Davis Langdon found no significant difference between the average cost of a LEED-certified building and other new construction in the same category
Another study of 146 green buildings found an actual average marginal cost of less than 2%.
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10. Green Cleaning
Green cleaning refers to using cleaning methods and products with environmentally friendly ingredients and procedures which are designed to preserve human health and environmental quality.
Conventional cleaning products may contain bleach, ammonia and other chemical agents that leave your home or office looking clean, but pollute the air quality. Many ingredients found in household cleaners can cause eye irritation, skin irritation, lung irritation and have been implicated as possible contributes to asthma and cancer - See more at:
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11. Feedback loops
Feedback loops: information flows within a system that allow that system to organize itself.
Negative feedback loop: Enable a system to system to self-correct and stay within a particular range of function or performance because embedded in the systems response to change is a signal for the system to stop changing when that response is no longer needed.
Positive feedback loop: Self reinforcing, the stimulus causes an effect, and the effect produces even more of that same effect.
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12. Water consumption of buildings in US
Buildings are third largest consumers of water, account for 13.6% of potable water use in US
Thermal power plants and irrigation are the consumes around 80% of potable water
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13. Questions? Put your questions in comment section
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