GREEN BUILDING? NOT!

 

(Repost from last year's hacked page.)

Sir: What's your design concept?

Student: Uhh sir.. Green building! Sustainability!

Sir: Why do you say so?

Student: Uhh sir.. see i have a roof garden, solar panels, and other green stuff.

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You fall into this trap during thesis with your disguised globitecture, agritecture, hypertecture, ecosustainability, ecocentric, greenitecture and other sparkly hybrid words. Yet..

Simply placing these does not make a green building. The building systems and utilities should conserve more than just energy.

Most of all, it should be computed with a rating system, not opinion.

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LEED is a US-centric rating tool though they have been rewriting the latest versions to make it more global, but BERDE is built for the Philippines.

You should be able to attain a specific number of points and minimum requirements just like the building code, in order to call it a "Green Building."

Management, Land Use and Ecology, Waste, Materials Recovery Facility, Transportation, Indoor Environment Quality, Water, Energy, Materials, Heritage, Innovation.

The Green Building Code is highly commended to be part of the checklists of building officials, but why wait for that to happen when your architectural expertise should be tested with green design.