• A Specialist: 70 % of daily water use is consumed in buildings

    22/11/2016

    In the lecture "green buildings"  in Asharqia Chamber
        
           Eng. Yazeed Al Mutawa  stressed the importance of taking in consideration the environmental factors in architectural design as an important part in the  operation of design of green buildings.
        
    Al Mutawa Said in  the lecture, which was organized by  Asharqia Chamber the morning of Monday, November 21, 2016 "green buildings" for some solutions to preserve the environment, noting that the environment friendly materials that do not harm the environment and human life with its raw materials composition, and the stages of manufacture and method of storage, distribution and re-use or disposal .
        
    Al Mutawa said that these materials are not only chemical and physical  formulation friendly, but also in their life cycle and their method of production, such as: reducing wasted energy and the distribution of the transfer process, and the use of materials made of organic materials and known content to facilitate the reuse.
        
    He explained that waste the management and the use of reusable materials  is one of the most important points in the preservation of the environment operations, pointing that 69 percent of the landfill in America consists of materials that can be reused, such as eating, glass, paper and plastic.
        
    Regarding the water inside buildings Al Mutawa said that 70 percent of daily water use  is consumed in the buildings, adding that the aim of the designs of buildings being green is to reduce water use by at least 20 percent.
        
    As for gases  effect he  said that the recent studies confirm that the emissions  became of  a high level, especially in the transportation accounting for 33 %of total emissions, pointing to the strategies that can be followed to reduce those emissions, most prominently  processing places to enhance the  culture of jogging among people, and providing bike paths and parking for them with  and changing rooms with fans, creating a variety of services and transportation environment, and allocating areas to promote healthy eating and health groceries to raise the agriculture areas in the city and raise people health.    
        Al  Mutawa  in the lecture which is apart of the awareness activities of the Committee for 2016, indoor environmental quality of buildings and  pioneering in Energy and Environmental Design, as green buildings are buildings designed  with special standards characterized as of a less effect on the environment through their life and by high efficiency of consuming resources such as energy and water consumption and using environment friendly materials, which contributes to reduce the carbon dioxide from the buildings and the waste of energy and water.
        
    The lecture  discussed the importance of solar energy and the alternative energy in the future, resulting in a clean environment and green buildings that contribute to the beauty of the environment and reduction of environmental pollution which is harmful to human health, animal and plant.

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