Eco- Friendly Construction Methods
GREEN BLOCKS TOWARDS BLUE SKY
Man stepped from stone age to 21st century, passing revolutionary eras in construction history. Ancient egypt, ancient greece, roman empire and chinese history provide the evidences how human evolute for sky-high constructions starting from simple man-made hand axe. Presently vast rooting of industrialization and urbanization is in a mission of converting every inch of the land to blocks of buildings. People blindfold misuse the forests, wetlands, air, sound and every aspect of mother nature for their hectic rat race of stockpiling money. But environmentalist protest against this massive shrinking of green lungs of the nature. They, in collaboration with engineers and architectures gifted the world with concept of “eco-friendly construction methods’’. It became more organized and initiated a non-profitable cooperation called ‘’world green building council’’. They developed codes, standards and certification systems for eco-friendly constructions.
Eco friendly constructions implies to the process of construction which uses the environmental resources efficiently and sustainably in a way of nature friendly manner. Within the three phases of eco-friendly construction process namely, pre-construction phase, construction phase and post construction phase, constructer mainly focuses on green technology for a sustainable and earth friendly performance.
The main propeties of eco-friendly construction techniques are, reusing and recycling of resources, using biodegradable matter for construction purpose, reduction of air land and water pollution, consideration of durability of matter using, estimation of waste released for the environment, deducing noise pollution, decorating internal and external environment of the building using flowerage and herbage.
Continues usage of traditional bricks, concrete and wood for construction purpose had lead path for destruction of forests for timber, and mining of earth for sand gavel etc...In order to get rid of that threaten to mother earth eco-friendly constructors have replaced the building materials by bamboo and cork which grows fast, hempcrete, recycled wood and metal, recycled and bio degradable plastics, cob, straw bale, precast concrete slabs etc... The key objective is minimal usage of destroyed natural resources and substituting the job done by them with nature friendly bio degradable alternatives.
Some exemplary world-famous eco-friendly constructions are, price water house coopers building- london, bank of america- new york. ,Antilia building- mumbai, burj al-taqa, dubai. Masdar- abu dabi. Crystal island- moscow, transbay tower, -san francisco. Sigiriya rock fortress is a gratifying heritage water garden in sri lanaka which highlights the ancient technology which dedicated construction systems towards eco friendliness.
The successful applications that can be seen on all most all of these novel constructions are, grey water plumbing system which recycle the used water to fresh water and reusing them in watering gardens, solar pannel utilization in producing electrical power which enhances the minimization of usage of hydroelectricity. Usage of grid hybrid systems which stores excess energy captured by solar panels which is a renewable source to function at night. Green roofing is the process where grass, plants flowers, bushes, vegetation and other greenery grows on the roofing material as well as on balcony floors. On pre-construction phase constructures attend on the fact of diminishing damage to land which stops soil erosion and sudden landslides. Also, we can observe enhanced environment quality on those constructions like placing windows to dial down the usage of electricity on internal lightning. Most of the times straw bale is used as a substitution for lumber to construct well insulated walls. Carbon air filters have been fixed to the green constructions to purify the exhaling gaseous substances of buildings. Some of the architect designs highlight their eco friendliness without destroying or replacing some huge rocks and trees in their construction area. They admit those natural creatures into their blocks in an artistic way of decorating framework. By that they achieve their erection goal without disturbing the systematic balance of nature. In eco-friendly construction methods the external walls of blocks are covered with creeping flora as an alternative to environmentally unfriendly, toxic varnish and coloring pigments applying to walls. These verdure acts as natural filters of purifying polluted atmosphere.In post construction phase all the throw-away materials should recycle and reuse as much as possible. All the bio degradable and non-bio degradable rubbish should dispose separately with the notion of green technology which cuts off the hazards towards environment. An eco-friendly construction method encapsulates all the factors such as climate, economy, physical influences, background, into a logical approach which finally fabricate a high yielding sense of beauty as well as safeguarded environment.
There are dozens of advantages in an eco-friendly construction method than ordinary construction methods. The air filters and grey water plumbic systems reduces tons of pollutants that strewn into ecosphere by large scale constructions. Solar pannels, grid hybrid systems and grey aqua plumbic systems are major applications where your money can be saved thousand times, avoiding paying for electricity and water with the concept of recycling. The decorative rocks admitted inside buildings while constructing, acts as insulators which cools the interior of the building.It reduces the energy consumption by air conditioners and other power consuming interior cooling systems. The scenery of roof gardens bestows immense pleasure where you can blow away all your world filled with tension. And also, they contribute much towards encouraging the ecological balance in biosphere. The greenery acts as a tonic for our eyes exhausted with dusty and grimy urban scenes.
If the constructions are sliding away from this eco-friendly concept, they will surely undergo the negative circumstances.It is necessary to promote eco-friendly construction methods all over the world in order to stop the catastrophic effects through harming nature. Authorities can impose a fine to constructions which slides apart from eco-friendly ethics. Government can brain wash the school children and undergraduates with the concept of eco-friendly constructional future. It can be concluded that future need is more and more eco-friendly constructional methods rather than eco destroying methods. Otherwise, you and I have to migrate for another planet seeking oxygen to inhale.
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