. For the
term project I plan to study the similarities and differences of “intelligent” and “green” buildings. Next year
for my senior design, I want to research the loading on roofs caused by the
components that make it a “green” or “intelligent” building. Green buildings
and LEED certifications are becoming very important and idealized in the
construction of new buildings in our modern day. There has been a big push
towards Green design within the past 10 years, and it’s still a growing field.
To my understanding, Green buildings deal with making certain components in a
structure more environmentally friendly. On the other hand, I believe that an
intelligent building focus more on making existing components more tactical and
useful. I feel that “Green” buildings are a lot more popular then intelligent
buildings, yet they share a lot of similarities and differences. Like
Ryan Krall also mentioned, people hear
the word green and immediately want to implement any changes to their building
to make it green even if they don’t understand the full meaning or concept of the
word. I still feel that people can relate to a green building more than they
can to an “intelligent” building. When one thinks green, we think green roofs,
storm water management, green walls, and so on. However like
Gayaneh Gulbenkian stated, “everyone
has their own definition of what exactly an intelligent building is” and for
that reason, it will be harder to summarize and describe it as whole.
Being
that both are fields with lots of areas of research, I plan on focusing my report on green and intelligent design with
respect to roofs. Intelligent roofs can vary and define roofing such as solar
panels, cool roofs, or sometimes just a more “intelligent” use of the roof
space. A green roof on the other hand can be anything related to storm water
management, or sometimes even biowalls that greatly reduce the water runoff. I
want to study the effects of hydroponics on these green roofs, to see how it’s
a combination of green and intelligent building systems.
Sources:
http://www.supergreenme.com/go-green-environment-eco:Intelligent-Roofs-Save-Energy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflective_surfaces_(geoengineering)
After reading your project idea I can relate to you and Ryan Krall aspect of how most of the common public has a narrow mind set of green building as I have mentioned in my blog post. But as Gayaneh Gulbenkain mentioned “everyone has their own definition of what exactly an intelligent building is” and nothing is wrong with that. I think if your research goes as planned it would be a great to share the results to the open public to give them more knowledge to consider when they think about green building after reading the results from your results.
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