Introduction to Green Building
Profession
Skill Training & Management
First step to becoming a Green Building Professional
Structure of the coursework:
• The course is divided into 2 modules:
• Metrics of Sustainability • How to gain Green Experience?
• Stakeholders in Sustainability • Range of Roles – Sustainability and
Green Building Consultants
• Green Building Professions
Module 2
Module 1
• Key environmental issues addressed
• Sustainable design – The process by Green Building consultants
• Preparing the “Green Work Force”
• Forecast for the future
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•Sustainable design – The process
•Metrics of Sustainability
Module 1
•Green Building Professions
•Stakeholders in Sustainability
•Preparing the Green Work Force
•Forecast for the future
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Sustainable design as a well conceived
process
Awareness and sensitivity to the environment and environmental challenges.
Knowledge and understanding of the environment and environmental challenges.
Attitudes of concern for the environment and motivation to improve or maintain
environmental quality.
Skills to identify and help resolve environmental challenges.
Participation in activities that lead to the resolution of environmental challenges.
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Metrics of Sustainability
• Standards
o Mandatory
o Voluntary
• Rating Systems
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Metrics of Sustainability
• Standards
o National Building Code
o Model Building Byelaws
o Energy Conservation Building Code
o Eco-Niwas Samhita
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National Building Code
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National Building Code
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National Building Code
• The approach to sustainability
is founded in the principles of
Code to adequately protect
public health, safety and
welfare, and to meet
requirements that do not
unnecessarily increase
construction-cost nor restrict
the use of new innovative
materials, products or
methods of construction.
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National Building Code
• With a view to boost sustainability, the building code for the first time
includes process for glazing in buildings with respect to their effect on
energy, light and selection and manifestation of glass with respect to
safety. It also focuses on energy conservation, use of solar energy by
way of solar water heating systems, solar steam systems for cooking
and laundry, solar-assisted refrigeration/air conditioning systems,
solar photo voltaic systems, and efficient lighting.
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Model Building Bye-Laws
• Model Building Byelaws, 2016 are legal
tools used to regulate coverage,
height, building bulk, and architectural
design and construction aspects
of buildings so as to achieve orderly
development of an area.
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Thank you!
Ar. Prajna Aigal
Research Associate, Sustainable Buildings
The Energy and Resources Institute
[Link]@[Link]
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Thank you!
Ar. Prajna Aigal
Research Associate, Sustainable Buildings
The Energy and Resources Institute
[Link]@[Link]
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Thank you!
Ar. Prajna Aigal
Research Associate, Sustainable Buildings
The Energy and Resources Institute
[Link]@[Link]
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Energy Conservation Building Code and Eco NIWAS Samhita
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Metrics of Sustainability
• Rating Systems: Common core factors between
rating systems:
o GRIHA
o LEED • Location, site features &
o IGBC building orientation
o EDGE • Water efficiency
o GEM • Energy efficiency
• Material and resource
selection/reduction
• Indoor air and environmental
quality
• Toxin reduction / elimination
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Green Building Professions
• Academic • Electrical engineer • Plumbing engineer
• Architect • Environmental • Real estate
• Building owner consultant professional
• Chief sustainability • Facility manager
officer • Interior designer
• Civil engineer • Landscape architect
• Commissioning agent • Mechanical engineer
• Contractor • Non-profit member
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Building
MEP Users Owner
Engineer
Structural Community
Engg. Manager
Facility
Architect
Manager
Stakeholdership in
Planning
Planner
Staff
Sustainability
Civil
O&M Staff
Engineer
Landscape Cost
Architect Estimator
Commissioni MEP
ng Agent Contractor
Daylighting/
General
Energy
Contractor
Analyst Product Construction
Manager Manager
Courtesy: The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability, Authored by Bill Reed and 7group
Adapted from: Graphic by Bill Reed
Entire project as
REFLECTING CONNECTING
learning wheel
Pre-Project • What do we Discovery
• What do we believe? know?
• Whole systems • Digestion
What do we believe? What do we know?
processes • Catalyst
• Inhibitors Data gathering: site,
Organizational context • TTCB mindset project.
• Team alignment • Opportunities &
Assemble right team Solutions I.D. key systems
• Specific goals
Right charge to team - • Sust. Principles • Brainstorm Baseline traditional
Goals REFLECTING CONNECTING • Cross-link design and budget
Owners vision and
Team alignment design intent
Past Projects
-Collect Data
-Analyse in-use
realty DOING DECIDING
-Refine operations
• Barriers & DECIDING
measures to Finalizing Design
DOING
• Coordinated action on overcome
Constructing • Solutions
design iterations
filtering
• Business cases Final business cases
Follow through
DIAGRAM OF THE LEARNING WHEEL. ADAPTED FROM IDEAS PRESENTED IN PETER M. SENGE ET AL., THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR BUILDING A LEARNING
ORGANIZATION
How do you best prepare young professionals for the green work force?
• Encourage the application of sustainable and restorative research to
studio projects.
• Provide research, collaboration, and hands-on building opportunities
that encourage multidisciplinary collaboration and sustainable
building.
• Incorporate new scholarship, research, and practice in the coursework
to better enable students to contribute to the further advancement of
the discipline.
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Forecast for the future in the field of sustainability
• Continuous improvement in our understanding of sustainability
and our effectiveness in achieving it;
• Continued shift in the priorities in all students and faculty to hold
sustainability as a core measure of a design's effectiveness, along
with things like cost, constructability, aesthetics, and functionality;
• Shift in emphasis from sustainability to regenerative design;
• Expansion of the scale that is addressed in green building to look
at whole cities and regions.
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• What are the different metrics of
sustainability?
• Who are the various green building
professions?
Module 1
• Who are the stakeholders in sustainability?
• Preparing the Green Work Force
• Forecast for the future
Structure of the coursework:
• The course is divided into 2 modules:
• Metrics of Sustainability • How to gain Green Experience?
• Stakeholders in Sustainability • Range of Roles – Sustainability and
Module 2
Green Building Consultants
Module 1
• Green Building Professions
• Key environmental issues
• Sustainable design – The process addressed by Green Building
consultants
• Preparing the “Green Work Force”
• Forecast for the future
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• Range of Roles – Sustainability and Green Building
Consultants
• Key environmental issues addressed by Green
Building consultants
Module 2
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Range of Roles
• Sustainability consultants
• Green Building consultants
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Range of Roles – Sustainability Consultants
Assessments
• Provide gap analysis (a status report that looks at where a company is
and where it wants to be) of current company with recommended
action steps.
• Assess energy sources and use, review the supply chain, and look at
operation audits.
• Research/analysis, such as benchmarking of competition or trends in
the market.
• Finance for green strategies.
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Range of Roles – Sustainability Consultants
Plans
• Provide sustainability plans/assessments/reporting.
• Strategize for green change management/employee engagement.
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Range of Roles – Sustainability Consultants
Reports
• Recommendations for internal and external communication
• Training/presentation to internal staff on sustainability goals
• Advising internal chief sustainability officers (CSOs)
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Range of Roles – Sustainability Consultants
• Facilitate the vision/goal-setting with the owner in terms of the
environmental aspects of the building.
• Help with site selection based on environmental issues such as regional
resources (water, renewable energy, etc.), urban infrastructure, and site
conditions.
• Determine if it would make more sense to utilize an existing building or to
build new.
• Assist in optimum team selection with specialized expertise based on
project goals.
• Recommend building orientation to best capitalize on natural resources
such as maximizing daylighting.
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Site Issues
• Water
• Energy
• Materials
• Air
• Awareness/Facilitation/Implementation
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Site Issues:
• Heat Island Effect
• Brownfield Remediation
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Site Issues: Urban Heat Island Effect
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Site Issues: Brownfield Remediation
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Water:
• Rainwater Harvesting
• Resource Management
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Water: Rainwater Harvesting
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Water: Resource Management
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Energy:
• Energy Modelling
• Daylight Design
• Energy Audits
• Building Automation Systems
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Energy: Energy Modelling
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Energy: Daylight Design
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Future of Energy:
• Net-Zero Energy Building
• Carbon Neutrality
• Green power integration
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Future of Energy: Net-Zero Energy Building
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Future of Energy: Carbon Neutrality
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Materials:
• Material Certification (e.g. Environmental product declarations)
• Greenhouse gases and other emission
• Life-cycle analysis (LCA) & Life-cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
• Resource reuse
• Toxicity
• Waste diversion/recycling
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Air:
• Indoor Air Quality
• VOC Assessment
• HVAC Design
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Materials:
• Material Certification (e.g. Environmental product declarations)
• Greenhouse gases and other emission
• Life-cycle analysis (LCA) & Life-cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
• Resource reuse
• Toxicity
• Waste diversion/recycling
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Key environmental issues addressed by Green Building consultants
• Awareness/Facilitation/Implementation to the end user:
• Education in the form of training or presentations on green building
• Facilitation of strategic planning
• Facilitation of sustainable processes
• Facilitation of green building rating systems
• Implementation of sustainable or green building goals
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Thank You!
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