Environmentally Conscious Building || System Engineering Design Assignment - EMSE 6805

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System Engineering Design: Environmentally-Conscious Buildings
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1. Introduction
Fueled that are concerned about the energy, emission of green house gases and the
quality of indoor air also have created an interesting explosion of Environmentally Conscious
Building in the construction industry. The green outlook offers the construction industry a vast
opening towards energy consumption. This report depicts the importance of developing
Environmentally Conscious Building in terms of Green building in Australia. The building
components and operations could be executed successfully after the implementation of the green
building in the construction industry. A divergent process set is needed for implementing
successfully the green model. In order to meet the demand of the Australian Government it is
necessary to develop the programs those are increasing the stringent regulation related to the
water conservation, energy usage, energy efficiency as well.
The construction of green building in Australia currently encountered many impediments
due to the presence of lack of green building project management framework. “The Prince's
Terrace Adelaide” is one of the most well known sustainable buildings of Australia. Even this is
the first 6 star green start rating building that had used 50% lesser energy and 50% of lesser
portable water than the urban dwelling. The definition of Environmentally Conscious Building
and a conceptual design of Environmentally Conscious Building are elaborated in this report.
2. Need definition for the Environmentally Conscious Building (Green
Building)
The construction of green building is referred to as a part of sustainable construction.
Prins (2015) stated that under the context of community the sustainable construction process is

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capable to address different issues related to ecology, social impact and commercial issues also.
In order to dispose the building sustainable constriction is required to be applied throughout the
life cycle of the green construction. Not only during the project development phase but also at
the pre project implementation phase also the concepts of green construction are eventually
applied in the construction industry (Lesovik, et al. 2014). The main aim of construction industry
is to reduce the impact of construction kevel practices over the environment through usage of
planning and managing the construction projects.
It has been found that development of green building is much difficult than development
of a traditional building because the materials needed to develop such building are generally
comes from environmental renewable and non renewable both resources such as solar energy,
water, oxygen, timber etc. In the development of conventional projects the schematic design
processes are consists of different simplified and general level concepts. On the other hand, for
developing green building projects the basic requirements include unique design features (Attia
et al. 2014). In green building the design for the lighting is also different from the traditional
concept. It consists of fixture low energy lightings along with the natural lighting features
through the help of installation of strategic windows. At the same time, it also uses the concept
of energy efficient florescent lighting.
Many other materials are there such as recyclable bamboos, toxic free material; cabinets
free from formaldehyde, non toxic paint are also required to develop energy efficient green
buildings. The green building design concept is divided into three different categories such as
building materials, layout and indoor lighting also. In order to build such energy efficient
buildings it is very much necessary to develop the building layout at the very initial phase. If the
layout is found to be not that much beneficial then, the implemented green building will also not

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be profitable and energy efficient (Kucukvar and Tatari 2013). The green projects are costlier
than the traditional projects. The capital ranges of the green projects are generally 1% to 2.5% of
higher than the general construction projects. In order to integrate the green materials to the
construction project higher cost is required. On the other hand the green material costs ranges
higher around 3% to 4% than the traditional construction materials (Ireland et al. 2015). Though
green buildings are environment friendly but still many challenges are also found to be
associated to this. The development of an environmentally conscious building mainly focuses on
decreasing the overall impact of natural environment.
For successful formation of such project the different divergent processes are required to
be adopted by the green building project development team. In order to develop such building
the valuable elements those are required to be considered include segmentation, relationship and
properties. Different methods are there through which green buildings could be constructed.
Based on the type and quality of projects the project developers are required to use the most
valuable approaches (Taboada 2014). With the help of different improved operations the green
buildings could be constructed. Green building is referred to as a cornerstone for sustainable
development. On the other hand the environmental sustainability could be served by the project
development authority, through the usage of water and energy savings.
In order to construct such buildings the necessary steps those are required to be followed
include:
 Conceptual design
 Construction renovation
 Operation