The Design Strategy For Energy Efficient Buildings

Sustainability is becoming an ongoing trend in construction. This word in reference to construction means to be built sturdy while not depleting the environment around it. According to Lafargeholcum Foundations [1], “Sustainability is one of the worlds most talked about but least understood words, its meaning

This manifesto proposes an approach to sustainable design that I am interested in exploring during my time studying architecture. The idea of sustainability is a complex one, not without apparent contradictions. This makes it difficult to define in a wholly satisfactory manner. For the purposes of this manifesto I will advert to the definition proposed by Jason McLennan who asserts that sustainable design: “seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment.” I find this definition particularly useful in the emphasis which it places on quality. By quality, in this

The indefinite growth of the human population, has monumental impacts on the natural environment, not only in the UK, but around the globe. Architecturally, the entire process of designing and constructing a building, both domestic and not, can lead to the rapid exhaustion of natural resources across the planet. Building with environmental design strategies in mind not only combats the impact we as humans have on the natural environment, but also has considerable economic benefits, due to lower running costs of buildings and advanced occupant productivity. There are also many social benefits, such as improved air quality which resultantly leads too enhanced health of a buildings occupants.

Architecture was born to serve the essential needs of human life. But architecture is not simply a function, capabilities such as objects, objects. The existence of the same architecture of human life has created the spiritual values​​. Architecture itself has aesthetic value, artistic value is part of the factors. There are small works, with the ancient architecture, over hundreds of years still exist. Many buildings that were built with permanent materials, not too stable structural, mechanical and material in its original meaning; but it still exists, and shine. Because his works contained the great cultural value. In other words, it is the culture of sustainable architecture. Government sustainability "invisible" This has tremendous power, a force without any harm, destruction was, whether natural or man. Conversely, can sustainable building structures, sustainable beauty is destroyed by other factors, such as planning, or administrative guidelines on the management of any construction or it be eliminated by bringing the non-human elements, without the support and consensus of the community.

Being environmentally friendly isn’t merely a trend. After thousands of years of using the earth’s resources, we have finally come to realize that we are destroying this beautiful gift we were honored with. Architects play an influential role in trying to preserve this gift by encouraging a multitude of strategies that can be more cost efficient in the long run, be more comfortable for its users, and most importantly, have a lower carbon footprint. Strategies can include drastic changes to heat and air systems, construction material selections, or even specific design details to the architecture of a building that would reduce the amount of energy it consumes.

Today’s Designers, Architects and Constructors have a duty of care to strive to produce energy efficient and energy saving buildings. Where possible the sustainability of resources / materials and techniques must be a primary concern in the decision making process.

In recent years, environmental issues are being a fundamental topic around the world as the public have been aware of the risks to our planet because of the harmful human being, such as deforestation, over-consumption of energy, different kinds of pollution, over-construction, which are incurring serious climate change and global warming. The replacement on the Millenium Development Goals to 17 sustainable development goals also alerted people to concern about how to make a better environment in a sustainable way under a high density urban city, where there are constructions contributed to this community. Especially in hotel industry, a surge of travelers leaded to the increase of hotel, which required plenty of land, energy and resources to achieve this huge demand. However, there are several factors we need to consider before the launch of the project, which are how to design a sustainable green hotel with a long term vision instead of becoming a ‘stranded asset’ in the future. So, in the following is my location and design of my hotel, considering environmental factors and integrating five sustainable development principles in my concept.

There are many ways that us humans can do to make a building more sustainable. Maybe we can just start with the little things, and in the near future when we have more advanced technology we can invent even greener inventions,but it all starts with you, together we can generate, create, and build our ideas and make the earth a healthier place for the 21st

The inefficient homes in the UK have catastrophic effects on global warming. The UK needs to become more energy efficient as at the moment it emits a large amount of greenhouse gases which risk dangerous climate change. The retrofitting of the brick three storey terraced town house is necessary in order to comply with the legislations set out by parliament in the UK Climate Change Act (2008) or if the house falls under the private rented sector it must comply with the Energy Act 2011.

Over the past few decades a small number of designers and design professionals have begun to realize their influence on the natural world and have decided to change the way they think of design and designing. This new approach has become known as sustainable design. Sustainable Design is a design philosophy that seeks to maximize the quality of the built environment, while minimizing or eliminating negative impact to the natural environment. In others words designing physical objects with the idea of creating under the principles of ecological sustainable compositions. This type of design is being having great advance and advertising during the last couple of years, therefore is becoming a new alternative in terms of designing and

“The code for sustainable homes is the national standard for the sustainable design and construction of new homes. It aims to reduce carbon emissions and promote higher standards of sustainable design above the current minimum standards set out by the building regulations”. The code takes into account 9 distinctive measures of sustainable design. The measures are energy/CO2, water, materials, surface water runoff, waste, pollution, health and well-being, management and ecology.

Sustainability, a common vocab being used in design industry nowadays. It is mean to design something with a well consideration of improve environment, people and economic, which has become the fundamental aspect when comes to initiate the design thinking. According to Oxford Institute for sustainable development, the tools to measure and construct sustainable urban development are prejudicial focus on environmental and economic aspects. Most of the time, ecological and economical sustainability are well concerned but Social sustainable, which merely shown or mentioned on any press or architect’s forum. This essay will talk about the social sustainability in design, by defining the social sustainability in design, the key elements of the

The European Union’s total expenditures on research and development have grown rapidly since the mid-1980s. For example, in the period between the EU’s First Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (spanning the period 1984-1987) and the Fourth Framework Programme (1994-1998), R&D investments under the Framework Programme grew in real terms by more than 120%. The budget for the Fifth Framework Programme (1998-2002) is projected to be approximately $15 billion. R&D investments in the health, biotechnology, information technology, and transportation areas have grown most markedly in recent years. Energy R&D constitutes a major, yet declining, share of the total R&D expenditures of the European Union (EU). Adoption in 1996 of a Directive for the Internal Market for Electricity: The Directive marks the first major legislative step toward the creation of an open and competitive European electricity market. Under this law, all Member States were required to open at least 25.37% of their electricity markets to competition as of February 1999. Under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the European Union committed itself to an 8% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Greenhouse gas emissions reduction and climate change mitigation now occupy a central position in EU Energy policy. The increase in funding for renewable energy R&D in the Fourth Framework Programme aimed to propel the growth of renewable energy in Europe and to spur European

As people known, to use renewable resource and to save energy or comfortable indoor environment is far from the overall picture. Because construction mentioned above is an industry which include many aspects such as land use and application of advanced technology, etc. Therefore if we want to define what is green building we should recognize the whole industrial chain included each aspects and unintended environment, social, economic, consequence brought possibly of complex activity. Kats (2003) in his article stated that the sustainable or green building should deal with those key points: environment, resource & energy consumption, impact on people, financial impact and the world at large which is a broader set of issues such as ground water recharge or global warming, as well governmental policies are typically concerned about (Kats, 2003, P. 1). And another institute, Office of the federal Environmental Executive (2003) defined green building as the practice of increasing the efficiency with which

Energy cognizance in building design can be described as the eagerness to enhance the energy adjust of structures; accomplished from both of the means in the