GREEN BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Abstract

The growing world energy needs in the last years have raised concerns over energy supply, exhaustion of energy resources and heavy environmental impacts such as global warming and climate changes. At the other side, buildings are recognized as big energy consumers which produce over a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Building energy efficiency today is a prime objective for energy policy at regional, national, and international levels. Green building is a practical and intuitive approach to creating environmentally sound buildings, which combines age-old tradition and design processes, modern building science, and technology and materials application. Green buildings incorporate sustainable features in their design and construction. The main goals of green building development are to design buildings that use less energy, cost less for operation and maintenance, limit the impact on the environment, and create places for people to work and live that promote health and productivity. This paper represents the main green building standards for green building rating and the classification of the categories for the achievement of the green building design, which are recognized by the green building community.