What is Sustainable Building?
Designing, constructing and choosing sustainable buildings is not a choice but an obligation.
Sustainable building or green building is the design and construction practice that causes less harm to the inhabitants and the environment than standard buildings, since it is designed and built in accordance with certain standards. The main achievements of these structures are:
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Presenting ethical and practical sustainable construction techniques that will prevent resource consumption and damage to the environment throughout the life of the building and its components
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When life cycle cost analysis LCC (Life Cycle Cost Assessment) is done, it is much more profitable than a standard building.
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High Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ):
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Building Associated Diseases (BRI)
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Susceptibility to Multiple Chemicals (MCS)
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Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)
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Green buildings are defined as projects that are sustainable, efficient and produced by using renewable energy as much as possible, starting from the design stage to the main building where the building is put into use and the entire process during the operation of the building. Sustainable buildings; effective water management, energy use, effective heating and cooling, design in the light of natural data, artificial heating and cooling systems by maximizing natural resources and the structures in which the costs of these systems are minimized.
ECOBUILD creates a design by measuring these data of the green building concept in the sustainable building design process. In accordance with its basic design principles, it uses all these data for constructs that maximize building performance, produce healthy and livable spaces, obtain low-cost structures, consider long-term use, increase the quality of space, and take into account the effects on people and the environment. Every building or urban planning project realized by ECOBUILD is in compliance with the concept of sustainability and climate change.
Why Is Sustainable Architectural Design Necessary?
What is the Sustainable Architectural Design Process?
The concept of sustainable architecture emerges as an inevitable point for building design processes today. It is known that buildings are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Realizing sustainable building and urban projects to combat global warming and climate change is not a choice but a necessity for human beings. Energy efficiency of buildings is not the only goal in sustainable architectural design. The principles of sustainable architecture, beyond energy and water consumption savings, define buildings that are resistant to pandami and infections, resistant to climate change, high internal environmental quality, protecting and renewing nature, and taking into account the health of human and nature.
The goal of sustainable architecture is to design self-sufficient buildings for future generations by using contextual data such as local materials, infrastructure, climate, technology, and natural resources in the design process that goes from upper to lower scale. These designs can range from green buildings to zero energy buildings, net positive energy buildings, zero carbon buildings.
ECOBUILD sustainable buildings, besides designing efficient energy-efficient and low-cost buildings, have a design concept that uses sustainable architecture beyond these and uses what nature offers not only for people, but also a design approach that renews itself, is flexible and reproduces for nature. In this way, sustainable buildings are addressed not only with the human target but also with the nature target.
It is now an inevitable result that sustainable architecture is not only related to its immediate surroundings, does not serve any period or time, and should be available for future generations. ECOBUILD addresses this understanding in sustainable architecture at every scale and at every stage of design, and realizes design that respects cultural heritage. We evaluate the natural data of the project area by establishing the balance between Ethical, Ecological and Economic values. ECOBUILD's understanding of human and nature-centered design in sustainable architecture always emerges with a democratic, flexible, long-term and social responsibility understanding by using the data of nature in the best way.
The sustainable architectural design process of ECOBUILD is realized with integrated design. Architects, green building experts, city planners, landscape architects, interior architects, mechanical and electrical project groups, acoustic experts, our employers and other stakeholders of the project participate in the integrated sustainable architectural design process. For sustainable architecture, starting from the first phase of the project, a participatory working process is formed that envisages a precise and absolute time management with the demands of design, project development, project management, financial organization, cooperation and employers. Sustainable design approach is based on the principle of integrated thinking.
At every stage of the integrated design process, the principles supporting sustainable architecture are solved by thinking, examining and applying the principles of the design process. The goal is to position sustainable architecture in a long-term, permanent, innovative, innovative way that creates itself for nature and does not harm the natural cycle it is in.
ECOBUILD is successful worldwide in the design of sustainable structures. ECOBUILD, the creator of LEED, has made designs and received awards from USGBC, the United States Green Building Council, among the projects in the world for 2020. ECOBUILD has produced more than 145 sustainable projects with a project history of 20 years, produced with sustainability principles.
The world's largest green building and environmental organization, USGBC - The Park Mosaic Green Residence Project in Ankara, carried out by ECOBUILD in 2020, was awarded with the “LEED Project of the Year Award” by the US Green Building Council jury. EcoBuild the world's only received "LEED Project of the Year" award for not only Turkey is also a significant issue for EcoBuild sector. The USGBC LEED Project of the Year Award, awarded with dozens of different criteria, competed with important projects worldwide. The success of the projects carried out by ECOBUILD, the contribution it has made to the development of the LEED Certificate, the training of hundreds of green building experts, and the creation of hundreds of green building materials, has been the strength of your stakeholders, whom he sees as his family.
ECOBUILD was awarded the "Green Building Leader Award" by the USGBC - USA Green Building Council in 2018 for its outstanding achievements in its projects. Receiving this award from USGBC, which is a world environmental center where only 3 companies in Europe, ethical values are kept at the highest level and every decision is taken by election and voting, is a very difficult process. This award is a meaningful award not only for Turkey to EcoBuild. The USGBC Green Building Leader Award, which is given with dozens of different criteria, can be achieved by working hard, loving what you do, being a good environmentalist in continuous R&D, success in projects and most importantly, institutionalization with a strong / high quality company structure. 35.000 followers follow the social media pages of ECOBUILD as all environmental leaders in the world, including USGBC. EcoBuild green building movement has gained great momentum only in Turkey but in the world. ECOBUILD is the only Turkish firm that provides consultancy services to the US Department of State Overseas Constructions Unit on Green Building. The success in the projects it has carried out since 2009, the contribution it has made to the development of the LEED Certificate, the training of hundreds of green building experts, and the creation of hundreds of green building materials are all thanks to the strength of ECOBUILD's family.
Design Compatible with Green Building Certification Systems
In addition to sustainable architectural design, ECOBUILD also provides consultancy on green building, infrastructure, urban planning certification systems.
ECOBUILD, contributing to the formation of all certification systems in the world and knowing that they are very important guides, performs at the technical design level in accordance with all green building certification systems. This experience provides significant time and money savings and numerous advantages for employers. The systems that we apply according to the wishes of our customers in sustainable architectural designs are presented below:
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LEED
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WELL
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WELL COVID-19 Healthy Building
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BREEAM
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DGNB
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Passive House
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Envision
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SITES
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TRUE
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ParkSmart
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RELI
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PEER