What is a green building?

Question

What is a green building?

Answer 1

Its an environmentally friendly building, which puts out little pollution and uses little unrenewable resources.

Answer 2

My guess is a building that uses solar panels for its electricity, flow resistors on its plumbing, well insulated window frames, stuff like that.  A building that has a minimal impact on the environment.

Answer 3

Probably one where they practice recycling and conservation, helping save energy.

Answer 4

Ask Sherwin Williams.

Answer 5

Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials, and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal — the complete building life cycle.

Green building is also sometimes known as sustainable building or environmental building, although there are slight differences in the definitions. The practice of green building can lead to benefits including reduced operating costs by increasing productivity and using less energy and water, improved public and occupant health due to improved indoor air quality, and reduced environmental impacts by, for example, lessening storm water runoff and the heat island effect.

Green building is an essential component of the related concepts of sustainable design, sustainable development and general sustainability.

Practitioners of green building often seek to achieve not only ecological but aesthetic harmony between a structure and its surrounding natural and built environment. The appearance and style of sustainable homes and buildings can be nearly indistinguishable from their less sustainable counter-parts.

Answer 6

A building that is powered by alternitave fuels. Like solar panels and stuff. Oh and it doesn't harm the environment.