The Three Dimensions

Construction has been one of the most resource-hungry and least viable industries in the world due to which people in the 21st century have started adopting the principles of Green Architecture and Sustainability. Unfortunately, there is a big misconception regarding the concept of ‘Green Architecture’. As in, the people have a wrong understanding about the term “Green Buildings”. Green Buildings does not just imply on creating huge lawns and making the building look green in color. It is rather the creation and responsible management of a healthy built environment based on ‘resource efficient’ and ‘ecological principles’. Based on what Green Architecture really is, in order to achieve sustainability, people have begun to use expensive materials trying to make the building energy efficient but they fail to realize that the materials that are being used for the purpose are high energy intensive materials and are not serving much purpose in the context of Green Buildi

Energy efficiency is just doing more with less-squeezing as much useful power from as little as possible. For example, the LED bulbs use 75 per cent less energy and last 25 times longer than the incandescent bulbs. Incandescent lighting and CFLs lose 90 per cent and 80 per cent of their energy as heat and Infrared Radiations to the surroundings, whereas the LED bulbs are cool to touch since they only produce minimal heat and no Infrared Radiations. Thus, we call them ‘Energy-Efficient’. This concept of ‘Energy-Efficiency’ in the 3D structures is used in the building sector and termed as the ‘Green’ or the ‘Sustainable’ Architecture. The buildings are designed to provide a significant reduction of the energy needed for heating and cooling, independently of the energy and of the equipment that will be chosen to heat or cool the building. The two aspects of energy-efficiency that are ‘minimizing the energy loss’ and shifting the resources of energy from non-renewable to renewable