Green Architecture

Green Architecture is a method to reduce the impact on our environment by using natural resources like energy, water, and the materials that are used in the structure recycled materials or the fixtures used in the home with energy saving features, as well as making a healthier environment. With high-efficiency windows and high value insulation in the walls and floors you’re your energy would take less too cool or heat up that area.

Written by BOB BOB BOB May 2010 “The history of a green building goes back further than the 70’s in the middle of the industrial revolution that Henri Becquerel first witnessed the transformation of solar energy into electrical energy. Around this time, the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, a number of solar plants were built to use the sun’s energy for steam power”.

Before a building is placed in an area it is studied for how much light is at that location through out the seasons, if it has any wind travel, and or water traveling threw. Solar radiation has a few factors that influence the incidence, or strength, of solar radiation at the site including latitude, altitude of the site.

With obstacles around the building giving off shade it needs to have the right amount of shade and the timing it shades the area for correct amount of sun the solar panels should absorb, the weather of an area plays a lot in the structures energy source.

If you lived in a sunny climate you would rely more on solar panels to provide most of your energy source if it were to rain more often than hydroelectric energy would be better source as well as a windy area then wind energy would be best.

After the solar panels have collected energy from the sun it stores some of it after the sun has gone down, some o...

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...ings, an architect Doug Thornton has taken an old building and completely recycled the old to put into the new. “Thornton says the design reduces energy use by twenty too twenty-five percent as tracked by kilowatt usage, even after adding some 400 square feet, doubling employees and using ten times the electronics of the earlier tenant”.

References used

Article on green building retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_building

Laurie Patsalides 2010 retrieved from http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/51601.aspx

Henry Bailey 2010 Eco savings (Architect has designs on green construction) found from the pro quest search at the Ashford library

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/hyhowworks.html

http://www.greenhomesstl.org/docs/costs.pdf