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Conceptual drawings of a green building, indicating features (top) [13] and components (bottom) [14].
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Public and scientific focus of interest on climate changes, population increase, rapid urbanization is rising day by day. Thus, increased demand for green buildings that reduces negative impacts, and can creates positive impacts on climate, natural environment and sustainable development is a new topic. Green buildings must be not only eco-friendly...
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... is a consensus in the literature thatgreen buildings perform better than traditional (non-green) buildings in a number of performance/application areas [7].Green building designs are applicableforvarious real estate projects such as: (i) Residential (Housing and Development), (ii) Industrial (Plants, Factories, Industrial Parks,etc.), (iii) Corporate (Office, Research Centres) and (iv) Commercial (Retail: Hotels, Shops, Malls, Showrooms, etc.) [12].Conceptual drawings of a green building are shown in Figure 1 [13,14]. [13] and components (bottom) [14]. ...
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