Eco-Friendly Energy Efficient Building Development

Question: Discuss about the Report for Eco-Friendly Energy Efficient Building Development. Answer: Introduction: This report is about the development of an eco-friendly building. Todays world is facing serious problems regarding the global warming and shortage of energy sources. Eco-friendly buildings are also known as the green buildings or sustainable building. The development projects of this type of buildings have the concerns regarding economy, durability, comfort, utility and energy usage (Duds and Farkas 2014). The main aim of developing the eco-friendly buildings is to minimize the overall negative impacts of the building related activities on the human health and natural environment. These buildings uses less amount of water and optimizes all types of energy sources required for providing the comfort and utility facilities inside the building (Godre et al. 2013). These also use most of the natural sources and generates less amount of wastes and provides healthier space and environment than the tradition buildings. In this report, the details about the systematic design of a green building development project have been described. The project has been named as the Eco-building project. The methodology, conceptual design, preliminary design and the detailed design of each segment of the building have been described step by step in this report with some recommendations for achieving the desired level of success. Methodology: There are five basic principles of developing the Eco-building development project which will be considered with the utmost level of priority at the time of developing the project (Henderson 2013). The principles are: Energy efficiency Water efficiency Structure or design efficiency Waste reduction Materials efficiency The methodology of developing the Eco-building project is to use the natural resources rather than the traditional energy sources and other required materials. Most extreme supportability in materials and procedures, using environmentally inviting development and operation techniques that might be replicated inconclusively (Gajski et al. 2012). Utilization of low-effect, reused/recyclable, territorial, non-poisonous, and reasonably sourced materials is the main concept behind the methodology development. Asset and vitality effectiveness, utilizing elective and renewable vitality sources, for example, photovoltaic and wind power. Administration of frameworks and for ideal viability and productivity, including preservation and reusing of water and vitality will be given the high priority to the Eco-building development project (Hewitt et al. 2016). Conceptual System Design: The conceptual design of the Eco-building will help to understand the different types of system requirements for developing the project successfully in Australia. The building will be developed in such a manner where the energy equipments will use the less amount of power to be operated. In order to use the renewable energy sources, the building will require the infrastructure of producing, storing and using the energy form the natural sources like sunlight and wind (MiloeviĆ¡ et al. 2016). The shortage of water is a big issue to the whole world today. A water storage and purifying system is also required for the development project of the building to use the waste water and rain water for reusing. The wastes from the food products and some other organic wastes can be used for using as the fertilizer products for the plants. This system will be developed in the building development project (Rasiulis et al. 2016). Preliminary System Design: The conceptual design of the project has been given in the figure below. The rooftop of the building will contain solar panels. This will use the sunlight as the energy sources for the electric equipments that will be used inside the home. In case of low sunlight, the solar energy system may not be able to produce the required amount of energy for the building. In order to use natural energy source in that case, windmill system will be developed beside the building. In order to reuse the wastes of the building, a waste management system will be developed as a extended portion of the building (Stundon et al. 2015). The rain water and the extra waters used inside the house will be stored at a chamber, which will be purified by the water purifies system and reused for the household activities. Each of the floor will have a long balcony section. In the balconies, there will be small plants and grasses for keeping the environment cool and providing oxygen to the natural environment. Using the energy efficient indoor lighting system will help to reduce the electricity consumption of the building. Use of T5 lamps, solid state lighting and fluorescent lighting options will significantly help for minimizing the electricity consumption within the building (Ozcan-Deniz and Zhu 2015). Besides these, the application of the natural lighting options for example light tubes, clerestories and skylight will improve in maintaining the sustainability of the building and redce the overall energy consumption. Figure 1: Conceptual Diagram (Source: Author) Literature Review: Concept of eco-friendly building: According to Roudsari et al. (2013), eco-friendly buildings or the green buildings are developed for minimizing the negative impact of the human activities on the natural environment. The main aim of developing the buildings are to use the minimum level of valuable natural energy sources. In order to reduce the use of the energy sources, the buildings are developed with special equipments for using the alternative energy sources. The buildings are able to reducing the wastes and pollution to the world by recycling use of the waste materials. Another major concern of the green building is the minimum level of use of the water resources. The natural resources can be used for keeping the temperature of the building at a comfortable level. As per the viewpoint of Nguyen (2014), the green buildings are able to minimize the cost of the development and maintenance without decreasing the utility facilities inside the building. Use of natural energy sources and water: According to Kellison and Kim (2014), the most popular three natural energy sources are sunlight, wind and water. In the case of the green building development, the sunlight and wind can be used as the source of required electricity. The solar panel are the devices that used for converting the light energy of the sunlight to the electric energy. The energy can be stored in the battery system. The same thing can be done with the help of the Windmill for converting the motion energy of wind to the electrical energy. The wastage of water can be reduced by using the recycling system. In this system, the used water or the rain water are stored in a chamber and then supplied to the required places after purifying the water. Ventilation, heating and natural air-conditioning: The ventilation system of the buildings helps to reduce the temperature of the inside environment of the houses. Use of the burning furnaces for heating up the rooms is an efficient way of reducing the use of electricity for the heaters (Azizi and Wilkinson 2015). As mentioned by Brger and Strk (2012), the utilization of the Geothermal cooling and heating is one of the most common processes for keeping the temperature inside the residential building comfortable throughout the year. Chatzisideris et al. (2016) mentioned the Geothermal System utilizes the Earths natural energy for cooling and heating up the temperature of the residential buildings. () stated that the application of the geothermal system for a smaller area of the building is not feasible due to the installation and maintenance cost incurred by the system. The temperature of the ground floor is usually higher than the upper floors. The temperature of the ground floor rooms can be sent to the upper floors and vice versa f or marinating the average temperature of the building at a comfortable level. Detail Design and Development: Solar Panel: Figure 2: Rooftop Solar Panel (Source: Chatzisideris et al. 2016) The whole roof of the building will be covered by the solar panels. The direct heat of the sunlight at the large surface of the solar panels will help to produce a huge amount of electric energy. The solar panels will be connected to the battery and inverter system installed inside of the building. The energy will be stored at the batteries (Chatzisideris et al. 2016). The stored energy will be used at the time when the sunlight will be not available. Windmill: Figure 3: Windmill (Source: Frost 2014) Another alternative energy source will be used because the sunlight may not be available for a long time period at the time of bad weather condition. The windmill will help to utilize the motion of the air for producing energy and store it at the same way like the solar energy (Frost 2014). Basically, at the time of bad weather conditions, the sun is not present in the sky but the wind is available at a high speed the windmill will be able to produce huge amount of energy. Green Balcony: Figure 4: Grass and plants at balcony (Source: Sharma et al. 2012) As mentioned earlier, the building will consists of long balconies. There will be lots of plants and grasses in the balconies. This will help to reduce the temperature of the environment of the building. This will be use as a natural resource of coolness. The plants will contribute huge amount of oxygen to the environment (Sharma et al. 2012). The activities of the building may be cause of reducing the oxygen level at the air. The green balcony concept will help to increase the oxygen level. Water recycling system: Figure 5: Water recycling system (Source: Linge et al. 2013) At the front of the Eco-building, a water preserver will be developed under the ground. The rain water from the roof will directly go to the preserver via pipeline. The other reusable water will also be stored in the preserver. The water will be purified and supplied to the building for the different types of use. This will help to reduce the cost of general household activities, which related to the use of the water (Linge et al. 2013). The purifier system and motor system will be installed inside of the building for supplying the water from the preserver and purifying it for using in general household activities. Waste Recycling: Figure 6: Waste recycling (Source: Waite 2013) The organic wastes of the building will be converted to the compost fertilizer products. This will be used for the maintenance of the green balcony of the building (Waite 2013). The cost of maintenance will be decreased via this method and the waste products will also be used which will help to reduce the pollution level of the environment. Case Analysis: In the Eco-building project, both the solar and air energy will be used for producing the electrical energy. The installation of the solar panel for the electricity generation from the solar energy is much higher for the residential building. It will also help to reduce the carbon emission. In case of excess of the energy by the two sources of production, the excess amount may be supplied to other buildings (Duds and Farkas 2014). This will help to reduce the cost of maintaining the building and the infrastructure related to the renewable energy uses and other segments of the building. The water recycling system is present to reduce the use of underground water and sue the rain water. The cost of water use and the contribution to the pollution to the environment can be reduced by the use of this system (Bhatnagar and Srinivasan 2013). The energy efficient light and fans and other electric equipments will reduce the use of energy and will increase the sustainability of the building th e different types of systems installed within it. Conclusion: All the details about the development of an eco-friendly building have been given in this report. The project has the name as Eco-building development. The implementations of the system design during the development of the eco-friendly buildings in Australia, has assisted in successfully design and develop the residential buildings. With the implementation of the different phases of the system design, the development of the environmental conscious buildings has been able to provide the efficient development of the building. In addition to that, the system design helps in the identification of the different needs and requirement for reducing the carbon emission and reduces the impact of the building on the environment. Moreover, following the detailed system design has provided the understanding of the system and implementing the project. Detailed description of each of the systems parts that will be sued for developing the building have been analyzed in this report. Recommendation: In order to achieve the desired level of success in the development of the Eco-building project the following recommendations should be followed: Feasibility study: A detailed feasibility study needs to be carried out before starting the development of the project. The financial feasibility, technical feasibility and the time feasibilities all need to be considered at the beginning level of the project. Proper Cost Allocation: For implementation of the project, there is a need for maintaining the cost allocation and distribution of the entire project. The whole development project should be subdivided into several parts. Proper cost allocation is required for each of the sections. Proper management: Other factors for sustainable development like rooftop farming, wastewater management can be included in the project. The different types of systems associated with Eco-building should be monitored periodically and proper care should be taken for the maintenance of the systems. Proper use of the waste management system: The waste management system will be able to convert the organic waste materials to compost fertilizer. This system is not able too handle the inorganic waste products. Therefore, the users should be aware about this factor and should not throw the inorganic waste products to the system. References: Azizi, N.S.M. and Wilkinson, S., 2015. Motivation Factors in Energy Saving Behaviour between Occupants in Green and Conventional Buildings--Malaysia Case Study. International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, 6(7), p.491. Bhatnagar, J. and Srinivasan, V.A.S.A.N.T.H.I., 2013. Building sustainability through people capability: a case study of Wipro ltd. NHRD Netw J, 6(6), pp.36-45. Brger, E. and Strk, R., 2012. 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