Green Buildings Index 1) Introduction 1 2) Green Building Concepts 4 2.1) Materials 6 2.2) Lighting 8 2.3) Water Resources Management 12 2.4) Ventilation and Cooling 14 3)Elements of green building 16 4) Basic‚ no cost‚ green building strategies 21 5) Green Buildings Summarized 21 6) Conclusion 22 7) Case study 23 8) References 25 1) Introduction:
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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY BLDG 501 ASSIGNMENT BY MOHAMMED O. MUBARAK U05BD1041 2010 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY 2010 Q1-CONCEPT OF GREEN BUILDING/ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BUILDINGS G reen Building is a holistic approach to programming planning‚ designing‚ and constructing (or renovating) buildings and sites. Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s
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A radical energy technology is one that is not classed as “business as usual” and takes a different approach‚ such as renewable resources‚ for instance using solar cell technology instead of traditional fossil fuels. It could be a wide range of different technologies‚ including nuclear‚ wind‚ and other fuels. A policy regarding energy or energy consumption reduction could be a target to reduce consumption over the next decades‚ such as seen in the Kyoto protocol. It could also be more local or
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INTRODUCTION Green business will assist recycling‚ renewable energy‚ energy efficiency‚ water conservation‚ green building‚ environmental clean up‚ or other Green Project. Nowadays‚ more human concern over pollution and global warming‚ climate patterns and shifting resources‚ therefore‚ many businesses are making an effort to go "green" by implement the sustainable products in an ecological‚ economic and social context. Hoffman‚ 2000 said that global warming is the best issue for the environment that from
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Green technology can be defined as any technology that is friendly to the environment; it may also be called clean technology. The field of "green technology" encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials‚ from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products(Green Technology 2010) Green technology can be found almost anywhere and some examples of green technology are‚ green energy‚ green building‚ green chemistry‚ and green nanotechnology. Green energy can be
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GREEN TEAMS Engaging Employees in Sustainability By Deborah Fleischer President Green Impact GreenBiz Reports ® GREEN TEAMS: Engaging Employees in Sustainability BY DEBORAH FLEISCHER November 2009 Helping companies go green Sustainability Strategy Employee Engagement Program Development Communications 390 Throckmorton · Mill Valley‚ CA 94941 · (415) 302-2655 www.GreenImpact.com www.GreenImpact.com GREEN TEAMS: Engaging Employees in Sustainability
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pollution to the environment and to human’s health. Usually the conventional building used a lot of amount of power and produced large amount of carbon dioxides annually. Therefore‚ conventional building is one of the sources of global warming. Green building concept is an effort made to reduce the impacts of conventional building. Green building is a space and energy efficient home which can offer coziness and healthy living environment to its peoples. The green building used the sustainable resources
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CHAPTER 1: OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY TRUE/FALSE 1. Some of the operations-related activities of Hard Rock Café include designing meals and analyzing them for ingredient cost and labor requirements. True (Global company profile‚ easy) The production process at Hard Rock Café is limited to meal preparation and serving customers. False (Global company profile‚ easy) All organizations‚ including service firms such as banks and hospitals‚ have a production function. True (What is operations management
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Issue paper one: Productivity and Quality Management Executive Report Prepared by G.Y. Attanayake MBA/2003/1448 Course : MBA 501 Managing Business Operations Dr. Travis Perera and Mr. A.K.L Jayawardana July‚ 2003 POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT University of Sri Jayewardenepura TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE NO. EXECUTIVE SUMMERY 4 1.0 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 MEASURING PRODUCTIVITY IN THE MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE SECTORS 1.1.1 Productivity Defined and Explained 5 1.1.1.1 Why Productivity
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process are seriously inadequate and weak due to poor education and lack of knowledge. It is necessary for local citizens to be educated with regard to tourism development and improve their policy participation ability. In order to achieve the sustainable tourism in Hainan‚ the policy-making process needs to get involve all the relevant stakeholders‚ consider their various interests‚ and achieve a collaborative tourism planning. Normally‚ these parties have dramatically different views on the direction
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