Green Building Concept, Implementation and Benefits Report

This report delves into the concept of green buildings within the framework of sustainable facility management. It emphasizes the importance of integrating people, place, and business operations to optimize environmental, social, and economic benefits. The report explores the concept of green buildings, defining them as structures and processes designed for resource efficiency and environmental responsibility, including the preservation of water, land, resource, and energy. It highlights the positive impacts of green buildings on both the environment and human health. Furthermore, the report recommends the implementation of green building practices through retrofit projects, using examples like the Empire State Building and the IMF headquarters, detailing implementation steps, estimated costs, and potential energy savings. The conclusion reinforces the significance of green buildings for environmental preservation and sustainable management, offering valuable insights for organizations aiming to transform their building structures.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Concept of Green Building:.............................................................................................................2
Recommended Implementation:......................................................................................................3
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................4
Reference:........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
Sustainable facility management referred to the process of integration of the people, place
and the business of any organization in certain way that is capable of optimizing the economical,
social and environmental benefits of the sustainability (Starik & Kanashiro, 2013). The facility in
the management of the sustainability is one of the major and vital of the overall process of the
organization towards the maintenance of the sustainability of the same (Hörisch, Freeman &
Schaltegger, 2014). One of the major cost and energy consuming part of the organization is the
building from which all the business operations are taken care of. The construction and the
business operation of the firm consume energies and produce waste in a broader way. The
following report presents the overall concept of the green building and the recommended
implementation of the same in the organizations.
Concept of Green Building:
The conception of the “Green Building” is related to the impact of the organizational
activities on the environment. The concept came to exist in the society after the great and deep
impact of the organizational or rather the industrial activities for which the environment has been
affected (Pérez‐López, Moreno‐Romero & Barkemeyer, 2015). The green building entails the
practice of the creation of the structure and usage of the process that provides the resource
efficient and environmentally responsible design, construction, maintenance, operation and
renovation of the buildings (Ragheb, El-Shimy & Ragheb, 2016). In other words, the green
building conceptualizes the building projects that allow the sufficient amount of natural
environment around the building. The green building and promotes environmental as well as the
health benefits to the society (Kibert, 2016). The green building involves preservation of the

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water, land, resource and energy that is used by the buildings for its daily operations or activities.
Apart from the preservation of the resources and energy, the impact of the green building on the
environment proposes the overall improvement and benefits of the human health and
preservation of the environment. The green building has been implemented by most of the
organization as one of the aspect of the effective sustainable management for the same. In fact
the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) by the US Green Building Council
is rating system that evaluates the environmental performance of e green buildings and
encourages all the other organization towards the transformation into the sustainable design
(Dobiáš & Macek, 2014). The fine and the best example of the green building is the Empire State
Building (ESB) refers to the necessity and the importance of the transformation of the buildings
into the sustainable design of green building in order to preserve the environment and improve
the human health.
Recommended Implementation:
The retrofit project of the green buildings can be the probable and effective
recommendation for other buildings that are in the way of transforming the construction and
design into the sustainable one. The retrofit project refers to the reconstruction or refurbishment
or transformation of the structure of the building with the replacement of the old equipments and
inclusion of the new energy saving equipments. There are several retrofit projects by some of the
famous buildings. These global examples of the retrofit of the green buildings can be helpful for
the companies who are desired for the transformations of their buildings.
As stated in the previous passage the ESB is the finest example of the retrofit project of
the green buildings (rmi.org, 2017). The project follows some steps that include the assessing of

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the financial ability of the company, planning the process, budgeting, designing the process and
implementing the same. The same retrofit project can be implemented for any organization’s
building that has the similar construction as the ESB. The project plan involves the engagement
of the stakeholders and identification of the technical potential in order to the implement the
retrofit plan within the building. The estimated cost for the project is $5 million that includes the
renovation of the windows, green roof for lowering the cooling demand in the building, more
open areas, in build garden for each floor and others. However, the estimated cost is calculated
as per the size of the building and the process. The approximated reduction in the saved energy
will be 305 as per the planning of the implementation of the retrofit design.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarter is another retrofit project that can be
implemented in any medium organization building. The energy bill of the organization indicates
the effectiveness of the project by saving between $2 million and $2.5 million per year
(www.imf.org, 2017). Therefore, this retrofit will be effective for the medium sized organization.
The project include the replacement of the fire and life safety, air conditioning, lighting, building
controls, boilers, domestic water pumps and other energy consuming instruments and machines.
The organization having the potential and the financial status similar to the IMF can take idea
from the retrofit project of the same. The budget for the retrofit project has been approximated as
$30 million which include the entire planning and architecture of the retrofit project as well as
the implementation of the same. The approximated saving of the energy will be 43% as per the
budget and the implementation of the project.

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Conclusion:
It can be concluded from the above discourse that the green building is one of the major
and most needed process for the preservation of the environment, which the sustainable
management team of the organizations must consider. The concept of the green buildings makes
it evident that this is the most effective and successful way for the preservation of the industrial
energy as well as the management of the industrial waste. Therefore, the recommendation of the
“green building” has been implemented by the organizations now days. The retrofit example of
the ESB and IMF building shows the effectiveness of the project for the transformation into the
green design to the organizations intended to transform their building structure. The approximate
budget and the percentage for the retrofit projects given in the report will be helpful for such
organization.

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