Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is an internationally recognized Green Building evaluation system Council, 2012. When sing the undertakings located in Sri Lanka, the evaluation system which is usually followed is GreenSLA® Rating System for Built Environment. And the presenting organic structure of this system is called GBCSL ( Green Building Council, 2010 ) . There for this study is limited to the GBCSL evaluation system.
This study is structured on how to obatain a GBCSL Platinum evaluation for the proposed juice mill in southern state of Sri Lanka. By sing the current design and other assorted facets of the proposed undertaking, some of the cardinal clauses of GBCSL evaluation system will be choosen to chiefly concentrate on and accomplish the mark.
Key concerns given in the undertaking are,
Site extent is about 10 estates and faces a river
Use 100 % bio gas for the operation
Minimal perturbation to the bing ecology
Waste H2O treatement and solid waste direction
Wholly hygenic environment
Undertaking location is selected utilizing the Google map and all the undertaking description inside informations are premises. Other extra premises are clearly mentioned in the relevant countries where they are used.
Undertaking Description
Undertaking name: Martz Fruit Juice Manufacturers Private Limited.
Client: Dubai Investments LLC.
Contractor: TUDAWE Brothers Private Limited.
Adviser: Calgary Project Consultants.
Green Advisers: Green Technologies FZCO.
Location: Undertaking site is located,
In southern state of Sri Lanka
Along with the seashore of Polwatta Ganga and 30meters off from it
300meters off from Kapuwatha Bus halt
380meters off from the Koledanda coach halt
410 metres off from kapuwatha Road
1.2 kilometres off from the nearest Paddy field
60 metres off from the nearest wetlands
Figure – Location Map
( Google )
Site trial inside informations: It is assumed that the undertaking site is partly a green field. And a part of the site is found as a antecedently developed land. Significant sum of asbestos taints besides found at site.
Design inside informations: Entire Site area- 40,000 M2
Entire Building country – 15,000 M2
Internal Roads and paving country -2500 M2
Parking country – 2500 M2
Native plantation country – 20,000 M2
Entire edifice roof will be vegetated
Figure – Site Layout Plan
Basically GBCSL addresses the undermentioned eight facets of its Prerequisites and credits ( Green Building Council, 2010 )
Table – GBCSL Rating Standards
Standards
Points
Management
4
Sustainable Sites
25
Water Efficiency
14
Energy & A ; Atmosphere
21
Material & A ; Resources
21
Indoor Environmental Quality
13
Innovation & A ; Design Process
4
Social & A ; Cultural consciousness
3
Entire Points Available
100
( Green Building Council, 2010 )
Sustainable Sites
1.1 Site Choice
Aim: To do certain that a undertaking is non being developed in an inappropriate site and to avoid the impact of environment on it.
Status: Achieved
Attainment: As per the undertaking description, current location of the undertaking is carry throughing the undermentioned demands
Minimal 15 metres off from any H2O organic structures.
Minimal 30 metres off from any wetlands.
Not to be located on a farm land, a public parkland or a land 5ft above the 100 twelvemonth old inundation lift
Site should non be a home ground of any endangered species ground.
Points: Five
1.2 Development denseness and community connectivity
Aim: Rather than doing a new substructure service, use the bing substructure of nearby urban country and protect Greenfield.
Status: Achieved
Attainment: Supply two prosaic crossings and a pes -bridge within the 1/2mile radius.
Assume that the mean denseness of the residential country is 10units/acre within the A?mile radius.
The site locality program below shows the residential developments and all the community service locations within the A? stat mi radius of the site.
Figure – Development Density ( Google )
Table – Developments
Idaho
Name callings of the Developments
1
Hatton National Bank
2
St Peters Church
3
Kapuwatha Children ‘s Park
4
David Peris Motors ( Pvt ) Limited
5
Pearl Library
6
V-Fitness Gym
7
Kapwatha Jumma Masjid
8
Highland gardens Restaurant
9
DJ Club
10
Kapuwatha Buddhist temple
( Premise )
Points: Four
1.3 Brownfield Redevelopment
Aim: To do a development in an already damaged or contaminated site.
Status: TBA
Attainment: Site trial consequence shows that portion of the site is contaminated by asbestos. Following redress stairss must be taken prior to get down the building.
Redress program must be prepared.
Asbestos superfund countries must be cleaned up harmonizing to the above prepared program
Onsite monitoring of the redress program
Ensure all actions are completed before the habitation
Points: One
1.4 Alternate Transportation system
Aim: To utilize the public transit instead than implementing a new beginning.
To supply parking installations to the internal staff
Status: Achieved
Attainment: As mentioned in the site location inside informations, there are two bus Michigans within the 1/4mile radius from the site.
Key program shows that the undertaking includes 200 auto parking slots and 20 Truck parking slots.
Those two installations meet the LEED demands for this peculiar recognition.
Additionally, supply 150 ( which are 5 % of the entire figure of workers ) secure motorcycle racks and altering installations.
Points: Three
1.5 Reduce Site Disturbance
1.5.1 Protect or Restore Habitat
Aim: To advance biodiversity at site by reconstructing native flora up to 50 % of the site
Status: Achieved
Attainment: As mentioned in the undertaking inside informations, 15000 M2 ( 50 % of the entire site except the edifice footmark ) of native plantation will be restored.
Points: Two
Development Footprint
Aim: To maintain an unfastened infinite of 20 % of the entire site country.
Status: Achieved
Attainment: Vegetated roof country can be considered as an unfastened infinite which will be the entire edifice roof country ( 15,000 M2 or around 37 % of the entire site ) as mentioned in the undertaking natures.
Points: Two
1.6 Storm Water Design Quantity Control 1
Aim: To pull off storm H2O discharge
Status: Achieved
Attainment: This undertaking contains vegetated roof and swales to an adequate graduated table. This will of course cut down the impenetrability of the storm H2O.
In add-on to that, bing impenetrability will be measured and proper design will be made at the pre development phase to cut down the current measure by 25 % at the station development phase.
Points: Three
1.7 Storm Water Design Quantity Control 2
Aim: As other facets of this recognition are already achieved in the old clause, purpose of this clause is to capture the 90 % of storm H2O overflow.
Status: TBA
Attainment: The one-year rainfall in the south West of Sri Lanka is 2540mm to 5080mm ( Sri Lanka, The Land ) . So the storm H2O design has to be made consequently to catch 90 % of the storm H2O.
Points: Two
1.8 Heat Island Effect, Non-Roof
Aim: To cut down impact of heat islands affects.
Status: TBA
Attainment: Supply roof to finish parking country
Points: One
1.9 Heat Island Effect, Roof
Aim: To cut down impact of heat islands affects.
Status: TBA
Attainment: Complete roof country of the edifice is already covered with flora.
Supply all the paving stuff with SRI29 or higher
Points: One
1.10 Heat Island Effect, Roof
Aim: Exterior and Interior Lighting
To optimise the power denseness of exterior lighting
To minimise the light trespass
Status: TBA
Attainment: Use gesture sensors so the exterior lighting will be used when it is precisely needed. ( Light pollution )
Keep the visible radiations illuminated straight towards the land ( Light pollution )
Use low energy conserving visible radiations like LED.
Set timers to exchange off all internal exigency visible radiations during non-working hours
Points: One
Water Efficiency
All the sub clauses in this clause are merged together and implementation solutions provided.
Aim: To cut down or extinguish drinkable H2O ingestion
To make a H2O efficient air conditioning system
To handle waste H2O and cut down the overall H2O use
Status: Achieved
Attainment: It is assumed that the undertaking has already implemented a waste H2O intervention and solid waste direction system to whole procedure as mentioned in the undertaking.
Additionally,
Rain H2O aggregation and use must be maximized.
Maximize the usage of waste H2O for Landscaping through the procedure of H2O intervention
Recycle and recycle the drinkable H2O
Points: Fourteen
Energy & A ; Atmosphere
It is assumed that all required requirements are already achieved.
3.1 Optimize Energy Performance
Aim: To convey the entire energy use to an optimized degree and cut down the economic and environmental impacts.
Status: TBA
Attainment: Low edifice footmark is already achieved as it is less than 50 % of the entire site country
100 % usage of Bio gas will cut down the demand for energy from other beginnings
Use detector based engineering in illuming and air conditioning system
Better the design to utilize the natural lighting and airing
Points: Ten
3.2 Renewable Energy & A ; Green Power
These two clauses are merged together as they have the same beginning of accomplishment in this undertaking.
Aim: To increase the usage of onsite renewable energy for the operations
Status: Achieved
Attainment: This mill will be runing under 100 % Bio gas
Use fruit wastages to bring forth Bio gas
Additionally, Solar panels will be used to derive excess energy
Points: Seven
3.3 Additional Commission
Aim: To get down the commissioning procedure earlier with the design procedure
To guarantee that equipment operators have adequate cognition in runing the equipment
To cut down the operational cost
Status: TBA
Attainment: Develop a user ‘s manual by placing the demands to develop all the staff and operators
Review and supervise the energy use for 8 to 10 months throughout the operational period
Points: One
3.4 Ozone Depletion
Aim: To cut down the ozone depletion by extinguish the causes
Status: TBA
Attainment: Use fire suppression method which does non incorporate any ozone depletion substances
Use H2O refrigerant method
Points: One
3.5 Measurement and confirmations
Aim: To mensurate and supervise the energy ingestion and develop a program
Status: TBA
Attainment: For a period of 12 months or higher, verify the agencies of energy ingestion to mensurate it and bring forth a rectification program
Points: One
3.6 Green Power
Aim: To mensurate and supervise the energy ingestion and develop a program
Status: TBA
Attainment: For a period of 12 months or higher, verify the agencies of energy ingestion to mensurate it and bring forth a rectification program
Points: One
Energy & A ; Atmosphere
It is assumed that the requirements are already achieved for this clause.
4.1 Outdoor Air Delivery Monitoring & A ; Increased Ventilation
Aim: To supply adequate fresh air to keep a good degree of occupant comfort
Status: TBA
Attainment: A typical mechanical airing system can be a higher sum of energy and resource. And besides it may non be efficient in supplying adequate sum of fresh air at a certain clip or topographic point.
To get the better of these jobs,
CO2 and out-of-door airflow proctors must be installed
Ventilation system must be automated by detectors. And this system should move harmonizing to the dismay of airflow proctors.
Provide extra Ventilation systems to increase the airing
Points: Two
4.2 Low Emitting Materials
Paints & A ; Coatings, Carpet Systems, Composite Wood and Agri fibre Merchandises
Aim: To supply a comfy environment to the residents by take downing the air taint degree
Status: TBA
Attainment: Assume that merely low breathing stuffs will be used in this undertaking.
For illustration: Anti rust pigments, Plywood with no added Urea Formaldehyde Resins
Points: Three
4.3 Indoor chemical and pollutant beginning control
Aim: To maintain the indoor country from risky chemical pollutants
Status: TBA
Attainment: Use automated door systems
Provide high quality fumes system to warehouse
Install 6 pess long entryway system to the processing country
Points: One
4.4 Controllability of systems
Lighting and Comfort Controls are combined.
Aim: To better the controllability of illuming and thermic systems
Status: TBA
Attainment: Provide remote control system or switches to warehouse and treating country.
Provide single switches to ease the controllability
Points: Two
4.5 Thermal Comfort Design & A ; Verification
Aim: To better the productiveness of thermic comfort
To Monitor and cipher the thermic comfort degree
Status: TBA
Attainment: Ensure that the HVAC design has the ability to keep the thermic conditions like air temperature, velocity of air and humidness in a normal required degree.
Propose a study to analyze the satisfactory degrees of residents. And if the satisfactory degree is less than 80 % , make necessary agreements to rectify the system
Points: Two
4.6 Daylight and positions
Aim: To accomplish maximal use of daytime
Status: TBA
Attainment: Maximize the usage of glassy doors and Windowss to reception, offices, research lab and cafeteria.
This will better the daylight use every bit good as the positions
Points: Two
Conclusions & A ; Recommendations
Making a green undertaking can be a dearly-won exercising. But when looking in to a futuristic long term economic and environmental position, it is the most convenient and valuable pattern for the current coevals every bit good as the hereafter coevals.
In this study,
Achieved = 40 points
Minimal demand = 70 points
More to be achieved but non limited to = 30 points
So,
The act of accomplishing points should be followed with attempt as it is explained under every clause in the organic structure of this study. And it will take to the award of Green Building Platinum Rating for this undertaking.
And besides,
It is extremely recommended to maintain the green quality of this undertaking from the beginning to the operational phases throughout the whole life-time.
It is advised to hold considerations on the clauses omitted in this study.
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