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Green Building for the micro climate, environment-friendly building

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:35:38 +0000

The concept of green building or green building trend driven into the world of property development today. This environmentally friendly building has put a halt to the contribution of global warming with the correct micro climate.

The biggest point in this concept is saving water and energy and use renewable energy. In Indonesia, access to renewable energy is still weak. Electrical energy supply to the property only rely on electricity company which are not yet using renewable energy sources.

In the United States, a variety of electric energy supplier companies with a variety of fuel options, including renewable fuels. Developers who choose electric energy from renewable sources will have the biggest points in the green building concept.

In many countries, the application of proven green building concepts to add value to sell. However, in Indonesia still need a long education process. In Indonesia, the confusion that comes even environmentally friendly building is expensive, difficult, and not feasible in the business.

The managers of the building as a large energy users now have the responsibility to reduce global warming in ways that save energy, water, fuel, and so on. Activities facilitated panel discussion of PT Colliers International Indonesia and PT Cisco Systems Indonesia is at once to introduce the reference through the concept of green building Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

The application of the concept of LEED is essentially a recognition of his efforts to provide environmentally-friendly property works or who hold the concept of green building.

85 introduces the concept of LEED rating points with a certified rating, silver, gold, and platinum.

Efficiency

The implementation of LEED for property development also requires absolutely some things, such as water use efficiency, use of minimum energy, or efforts to protect the ozone layer. Some countries, like India, China, Dubai, and Vietnam, also had quite a lot of applying LEED concepts. LEED certification was originally formulated Green Building Council United States.

Understanding of this architecture. Green building measures open up opportunities to put the building in a wider network, related aspects of climate, natural resources, social, and cultural. Education plays an important role in the understanding of sustainability.

The main issues related to environmentally friendly buildings, among which are necessary to build only and do not use more than necessary, the principle of relevance, as well as looking at professional architects as a caretaker of the earth.

Design strategies that can be applied, among others, the use of sustainable materials, linkages with the local ecology, the relationship between transit and residence, recreation and work, as well as water use efficiency, waste management, and highlight local conditions both physically and socially.

The Companies should save electricity

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:58:17 +0000

Some ways to save, especially for offices and companies are as follows:

Reset the electric lighting in the room so that when users power only in certain parts, so not all lights must be switched.
Change the light bulb lights with energy-saving lamps.
Turn off computer monitors when used as monitors use more electricity than computers. as a comparison, the average operational computer uses 55 watts and the monitor uses 75 watts.
Avoid too much use photocopy. Can be used for the distribution and the email scanner.
Print more energy-intensive color than black and white print. Besides laser printer is more energy intensive than inkjet printers.
Turn on the AC 15-30 minutes after starting work, and turn off the AC 15-30 minutes before going home. These little things will really save if done every day for an office with lots of air conditioning units.
Turn off the toilet lights when no one or no use.

The things above are just a few things we can do together. Hopefully with this we can save money so that we are not only pay for the cost more efficient, but our lifestyle can take part in preserving the environment.

So if you have another idea to save energy, you can share…

Choosing wooden and eco-friendly furniture

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:03:17 +0000

In marketplace there are many provider offering the most extensive range of outdoor furniture where you can choose from. As well as this though, the products that they offer should be constructed from durable wood such as garden table. The types of durable woods that usually used to make wooden garden furniture, but there are also many provider that use “not so durable” materials to construct their product therefore be sensible to find out beforehand which kind of woods are relevant in garden furniture.

Usually we are always worry about our new garden furniture being stolen, so before buying any item, it must be consider to look for features that may be able to safeguard against these condition and unfortunate circumstances. For instance, the features include galvanised steel or stainless that can be inserted in order to make the the furniture more secure in the ground.

Some people sometimes considering about ecologically-friendly minded and would like to make sure that the furniture they purchase has been constructed with materials sourced responsibly. Therefore they would need to locate those suppliers that have an ecological policy in their place. Some providers, for example, have policies in place so that they only source from relevant countries or place that have sustainable and have responsible ecological plans enforced, which would obviously give those consumers looking for these kinds of items peace of mind knowing they are made from the right source and making the correct decision.

Another thing to look out for in garden furniture providers is pick out ones of those things that are well-known for general customer satisfaction ratings. Things like replacement guarantees and giving out specs on demand encourage a good customer service reputation. Related to this condition , the providers policy will allowing a customer to thoroughly inspect the furniture upon delivery and allowing for non-conditional return and replacement the problem.

To compare the prices of the various pieces of furniture, it may be prudent to initially do a check by phone or by online. Not only will you be able to compare the prices, but you can take a look at the various models that are offer to the consumer. Doing this could actually save you quite some money in the long run, so it pays to be prudent. There are also options to make general inquiries online as well, which is always give the benefit.

On the other hand, when buying a wooden climbing frame or other playing structure for your children on the garden, the thing you must be keep in mind is to find what features and activities will suitable and are they safe and risk-free to make commercial climbing frames. In these wooden climbing frames top grade pine is used and it has to undergo many different treatment to make sure it is safety and protection of your kids. Only approved pine wood that have to used to create these frames.

You have to remember that garden furniture is not cheap, especially wooden garden furniture, so it pays to be careful while you are buying.

Using environmentally friendly plastic bags

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:18:18 +0000

Many Department Store now using environmentally friendly plastic bags. Use of oxi degradable bags (oxium) which easily decompose. Its use as commitment in conserving the environment and supporting government programs on waste management. Oxium plastic bags made of degradable material so that the mixture of plastic will be destroyed within 2 years.

Period of destruction depends on the heat and humidity storage. Department store as a place that sells basic needs and the everyday use of plastic on average 48 kg per store, or 173,952 kg per month with a total of 3624 stores. The growing need to make the replacement of conventional plastic bags with degradable can not be delayed, despite greater cost and supply constraints still factory