Energy Efficiency in Green Building to Achieve Sustainability: A Review

Abstract

At present, the building and construction industry is one of the major economic activities in India. It is estimated that the construction industry has contributed around 8.1% to India’s GDP in 2010-11 up from around 5.1% in 1999-2000. One survey indicates that construction area in India will boom 5-fold from 20,000 million sq. ft in 2005 to over 100,000 million sq. ft in 2030.This increase will put massive pressure on diverse resources such as energy, water, minerals and could have a discernible influence on the environment. Faced with an increasingly scarcity of resources, there was an increasing focus on “green construction as solution”. As a result, India has emerged as one of the world’s top destinations for green building and has implemented a number of homes rating schemes and building codes, which open up a wide range of opportunities in construction, architecture and engineering design, building materials and equipment manufacture. The building sector alone consume around 35% of the energy. Hence by considering the situation by using the sustainable green materials for construction lessen the electricity call to a certain extent. By using more and more of the conventional building materials along with causing global warming also affects the natural resources. By Green or sustainable construction means the use of key sources like energy, water, materials, and land in the most efficient way than homes which can be simply constructed conventionally.