LEED and Green Home Designs
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There has been an appreciable development of the Green movement today since the 70s. In those halcyon days of the Peace Movement, Vietnam War and the winding down of counter culture, building Green was in its infancy. Open a brochure of Green Home designs from the 70s and probably what stared out at you were structures shaped like anthills or cave dwellings. You wondered at the sanity of it all.
Environment, ecology and living with the nature were very much a concept then, but was the domain of few people. What has changed from the 70s to the present day is that building Green homes has very much become an enterprise being seriously attempted by reputed builders and encouraged by various governments. A trendy concept of the 70s has now transformed into an official mascot of many a nations.
In the 70s there was no real professional effort at building Green homes. Designs mimicked natural designs of indigenous people without really trying to incorporate the wishes and aspirations of modern day living. A scientific effort at building Green home designs was more or less absent in the 70s. Today, Green home designs follow strict certification processes in countries the world over. The Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) is an initiative that sets standards for Green Home designs in the US. Countries the world over, from the West to the East have incorporated the LEED standard and in some cases their own standards. In the 70s, Green home designs tended to concentrate on stand alone projects. Today, designers approach Green home designs as full-fledged eco systems. All aspects of the environment, architecture and every avenue for using indigenous methods and recycled materials is explored in a holistic manner.
Science too has played an important role in the evolution of Green home designs. In the 70s powerful computers were not available. Present day Computer Aided Designs (CAD) make accurate calculations for wind flow solar capture thus helping build more efficient Green buildings than was possible in the 70s. Even greening of construction materials has received an impetus thanks to advances in science. Nature friendly, recycled products, made possible by advances in science are regularly used by construction companies. For example, cement an important ingredient in any construction today can be mixed with Fly ash, a waste product, which is just as efficient as original cement. The global environmental challenges are forcing countries to understand the need to conserve our resources. Designing Green homes has thus traveled from the 70s niche market to the more regular world today. Similar articles Submit feeds Green built home
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