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ELECTIVE II (SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE)

TOPICS
TERMINOLOGIES IN
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE  CARBON FOOTPRINT  EMBODIED ENERGY
 THE THREE R’S OF SUSTAINABILITY  ECO-DESIGN
 CIRCULAR ECONOMY  ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT ANALYSIS
 LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT  WATER FOOTPRINT
 CRADLE-TO-GRAVE, CRADLE-TO-GATE  CARBON OFFSET
CRADLE-TO-CRADLE  OZONE DEPLETION
 LIFE CYCLE ENERGY  SICK BUILDING SYNDROME
 ENERGY RECOVERY  GREENFIELD & BROWNFIELD
 LIFE CYCLE COST  EPI
 DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT  CIRCLES OF SUSTAINABILITY
 WASTE STREAM REDUCTION
(RAR 905) LECTURE 3 By: AR. AKSHITA BHATT

CARBON FOOTPRINT THE THREE R’S OF SUSTAINABILITY

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RENEWABLE & RECYCLABLE RESOURCES CIRCULAR ECONOMY

 A circular economy is an economic
system aimed at minimizing waste and
 Recycling is the practice of making the most of resources. In a
transforming waste products circular system resource input and
into new supplies and waste, emission, and energy leakage
are minimized by slowing, closing, and
products. narrowing energy and material loops;
 Renewable resources are this can be achieved through long-
lasting design, maintenance, repair,
resources that have the reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing,
capability to be naturally and recycling.
and organically replaced in a  This regenerative approach is in
set time period. contrast to the traditional linear
economy, which has a 'take, make,
dispose' model of production.

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT CRADLE-TO-GRAVE

Life cycle assessment is
a technique to assess
environmental impacts
associated with all the
stages of a product's
life from raw material
extraction through
materials processing,
manufacture,
distribution, use, repair
and maintenance, and
disposal or recycling.

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CRADLE-TO-GATE CRADLE-TO-CRADLE

LIFE CYCLE ENERGY ENERGY RECOVERY

 If materials are incinerated during the disposal

process, the energy released during burning can be
harnessed and used for electricity production. This
provides a low-impact energy source, especially
when compared with coal and natural gas .

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LIFE CYCLE COST DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

WASTE STREAM REDUCTION EMBODIED ENERGY

Waste stream reduction is  Embodied energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any
focused on making new goods or services, considered as if that energy was incorporated or
products from discarded 'embodied' in the product itself.
used products. We are all
learning that recycling is a
beneficial and valuable
process. Recycling
programs include water,
plastic , metals, and many
other materials.

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ECO-DESIGN ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT ANALYSIS

Eco-design is an approach One instrument to identify the factors that are important
to designing products with for the reduction of the environmental impact during all
special consideration for lifecycle stages is the environmental effect analysis
the environmental impacts (EEA).
of the product during its For an EEA the following are taken into account:
whole lifecycle. In a life  Customers' wishes
cycle assessment, the life  Legal requirements, market requirements (competitors)
cycle of a product is  Data concerning the product and the manufacturing
usually divided into process
procurement, manufacture,
use, and disposal.

WATER FOOTPRINT CARBON OFFSET

 The water footprint shows the extent of water use
in relation to consumption by people. A unit of carbon dioxide
 The water footprint of an individual, community equivalent that is
or business is defined as the total volume of fresh
water used to produce the goods and services reduced, avoided, or
consumed by the individual or community or
produced by the business. Water use is measured sequestered to
in water volume consumed (evaporated) and/or
polluted per unit of time.
compensate for emissions
 A water footprint can be calculated for any well- occurring elsewhere
defined group of consumers (e.g., an individual,
family, village, city, province, state or nation) or
(World Resources
producers (e.g., a public organization, private Institute)
enterprise or economic sector), for a single
process (such as growing rice) or for any product
or service.

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OZONE DEPLETION SICK BUILDING SYNDROME

Destruction of the earth's ozone layer by
the photolytic breakdown of chlorine  A building whose occupants experience acute health
and/or bromine containing compounds and/or comfort affects that appear to be linked to
(chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs) which
catalytically decompose ozone time spent therein, but where no specific illness or
molecules. Commonly used as cause can be identified. Complaints may be
refrigerants, CFCs have been found to
damage the stratospheric ozone layer,
localized in a particular room or zone, or may
creating holes and allowing harmful spread throughout the building and may abate on
ultraviolet radiation to leak through.
leaving the building.

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) GREENFIELD & BROWNFIELD

Stable, artificially created chemical compounds The Greenfield project means that a work which is
containing carbon, chlorine, fluorine and sometimes not following a prior work. In infrastructure the
hydrogen. Chlorofluorocarbons, used primarily to projects on the unused lands where there is no need
facilitate cooling in refrigerators and air to remodel or demolish an existing structure are
conditioners, deplete the stratospheric ozone layer called Greenfield Projects. The projects which are
that protects the earth and its inhabitants from modified or upgraded are called Brownfield
excessive ultraviolet radiation. projects.

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EPI CIRCLES OF SUSTAINABILITY

Energy performance index (EPI) is total energy
 Circles of Sustainability is a
consumed in a building over a year divided by method for understanding
and assessing sustainability ,
total built up area in kWh/sqm/year and is and for managing projects
considered as the simple stand most relevant directed towards socially
Sustainable outcomes.
indicator for qualifying a building as energy  It is intended to handle
efficient or not. 'seemingly intractable
problems‘ such as outlined in
sustainable development
debates.
A Circles of Sustainability representation for Melbourne in 2011.

 http//www.footprintcalculator.org