Green Building Review

Civil Constructions are practiced since decades. Building materials such as cement, aggregates, etc are in use since last 1800's but as and when the time passes by, we have come across various other materials such as asphalt, bitumen, etc. which are found not to be eco-friendly in nature and thus the main aim of this paper is to study about various other alternatives to these traditional building materials and move towards or take a shift towards the sustainable and innovative green building materials. This paper will focus on comparison between such building materials and perform a precise literature review on the same. To demonstrate the use of ETABS in sustainable design, high rise structure is taken for model study. The conventional building performance is analysed using ETABS which included various parameters like energy use intensity, lifecycle energy use/cost, annual carbon emissions, monthly heating and cooling loads, monthly peak demand and monthly electricity and fuel consumption. By employing the use of green materials in the conventional building model, the conventional building model is modified into a green building model. Using ETABS, the use of artificial resources can be greatly reduced by replacing them with the use of renewable energy resources thereby saving energy. To show how efficient analytical application is, the results of the performance of the conventional and green building models are compared. ETABS has proved to be efficient in achieving sustainability with earlier decision making and rectification of errors.