Green Building Essays & Research Papers

Green Building with Concrete

5 Pages 2430 Words

The construction industry in Tanzania includes transportation infrastructures, real estates, and civil works, including water supply. According to the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Construction industry contributed 13.6% to Tanzania’s GDP during 2015, reaching almost USD6b. From 2016 to 2017 the government of Tanzania had budgeted TZS5.47t, which is to 25.4% of the total budget, excluding public debt...

Conversation Green Building

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Green Technology - a Key to Eco Friendly Environment

3 Pages 1189 Words

Green technology, also known as Environmetal technology or Clean technology, is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environment monitoring and electronic devices to monitor, model and conserve the natural environment and resources, and to curb the negative impacts of human involvement. It uses the National R&D (Research & Developement) projects to minimise the effects of...

Conversation Green Building Natural Environment

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Impact and Benefits of Green Buildings in Our Environment and Lifestyle

3 Pages 1527 Words

Abstract For our day-to-day language, Green refers to a color. But in the Architectural and Constructing field, it has a really valuable meaning, symbolizing environmentally friendly behavior. With time passing the environmental impact of buildings is becoming more present and a new field called 'green building' is gaining momentum. Green Building is considered a social statement that expresses an important...

Green Building

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Essay on Green Architecture

7 Pages 3178 Words

Green and eco-friendly Architecture. 'We are nature – all changes to the habitat have an impact on us.' (Sustainable design, 2007). People who were brought up in the early 30s and studied architecture could not imagine that the technologies would rapidly develop, and many possibilities could be opened in the architectural world by the end of the 20th Century. As...

Architecture Conservation of Forest Conversation Green Building

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Applicability of Incentive Zoning Within Built Up Areas in South African Context

5 Pages 2254 Words

Land Value Capture (LVC) consists of a number of different instruments which can be implemented by state to increase the land value market around a certain urban area. Some of these instruments which is associated with LVC includes strategies such as incentive zonings, development levies, land swaps, transit development impact fees, etc. Land value capture investment is also a source...

Green Building New Urbanism

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Green Architecture Application in Hong Kong

1 Page 602 Words

According to the 2018 Smiling Report conducted by Better Business (a company that conducts market research), Hong Kong is one of the most grim-faced cities in the world, ranking 25 out of 29 cities, and ranked the last and second-last in 2016 and 2017 respectively. With reference to the 2018 Quality of Living survey conducted by Mercer, the results show...