CPGreen - Green Design

A green building relies on materials and products, principles and strategies that collectively reduce its negative impact on the environment. This is about maximising performance (where systems must rely on non-renewable resources) or switching to less damaging, sustainable options such as wind or solar power. It includes a review of material use, with impact study ranging from manufacture to disposal.

At CPGreen we focus on five parameters of green performance: a building's consumption of Energy, Materials and Water, its impact on the Occupant and Global Ecology.

We believe it is useful to think in Shades of Green
as a means of differentiating buildings that do more from those that do less. This defines a baseline for environmental performance, a starting point against which a project can calibrate response.

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The construction and operation of buildings, the extraction of materials and manufacture of building products, all of these can contribute to the release of greenhouse gases and pollutants, to the degradation of natural habitats and eco-systems. The impact is felt beyond project boundaries and across many years, a fact often overlooked when building cost is reviewed.

Environmental cost can be quantified in other ways as well, for instance, operation costs associated
with better system efficiencies, savvier resource management and waste minimisation. It can be measured in terms of occupant health and comfort, which in turn affecting occupant productivity. A green building should costs less to build and operate. It offers its users an environment that supports their activities through enhanced comfort and health.

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