Highlights importance of green buildings

posted on: Jan 13 2012 8:9 by RDugey. Viewed 15 times.

The issue of protection of the environment has enabled many countries, mainly in Europe, to worry because their development plans involve projects green or friendly with nature.

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The construction of buildings plays a major role in what has to do with the care of the environment, because depending on their design, they can generate more or less pollution to ecosystem.

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The engineer Jesús Rodríguez Sandoval said that although in Dominican Republic does not yet exist any building with a certification that qualifies it as a green, the country has already begun a process of awareness-raising among construction professionals and entrepreneurs, so that they can develop buildings friendly to the environment.

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Reported that engineers, enterprises and Government institutions have to worry about constructing green buildings to avoid damage to the environment and u000athe future generations.

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Rodriguez considered that definitely, engineering professionals and enterprise-class have a fundamental commitment to green buildings, because although they represent a 5% and 10% more than the budget, with the passage of time recovering investment.

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"At the moment does not exist any building certified as green in Dominican Republic;" "we started the first building, which is la torre Anacaona 27, which is registered in Washington as a green building and it is possible that there are others, but are not certified", pointed out.

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He said that among the requirements to be met by a building to be certified as green, are that this has to be located - OJ in an area where there is public transport to minimize the use of vehicles and must produce at least 30% of energy renewable.

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Building environment
"is that it is a shame that a new building of the" u000aMinistry of environment can not be certifiable as green. "We made a proposal on the construction of the building process to create a change that only generated an increase of 5% of the total cost and was not adopted," said Rodriguez, after mean that this is the institution which should lead by example.

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Green building and Green Building is a concept of transformation to reduce the negative environmental impact, RODRIGUEZ said that all those movements that have been seeing climate change and reduction of water levels occurs because it is destroying the environment.

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"For example the building of basket of Miami was already certified green and is a multi-purpose building, or actually is not only think in us, but in future generations, know what they are going to leave if we don't take measures to implement techniques in construction", said.

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Said that the country mentioned the u000aexistence of green buildings, but that really if a building is not certified not can be said that it is green.

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Explained that a friendly building for the environment is the one that manages to reduce the amount of use of fuels, carbon emissions, the amount of water and other resources that affect the environment.

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Acts made in the CODIA
Jesus Rodriguez Sandoval participated last Wednesday in the acts being done by the Dominican College of engineers architects and Surveyors (Codia) during this week the 49 anniversary of that entity, which held a conference with the theme of "Green buildings"; it raised the need for the country to develop buildings friendly to the environment.

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Considered to be a compromise, both construction professionals and entrepreneurs, to nearby buildings in the country do so u000ado not affect both the environment.