Sustainable Development

LSquare, Formed by a group of IITians, GG01 09.01 2010

practices in sustainable design and
IGBC/USGBC/GRIHA green standards LSquare Solutions
certification facilitation across the Nation. Some Experience Solutions
Technology | Outsourcing |Consulting |Go Green
of our key areas of expertise in Greens & CDM
models are:-

 Green Building Consultancy

 LEED facilitation

GoGreen
 CDM Advisory

focus
ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS AND PLANTING
THE SEEDS FOR A SECURE FUTURE.

Home Automation Technology Helps Manage

Energy Use

Helping you achieve

your financial goals through Green Energy

Smart home automation is a growing
industry and a popular trend for
homeowners who want the latest
technology. However, it can also be a
great new tool for green computing
and reducing energy costs by using
your computer or any other computer
in the world.
Home automation design involves one
centralized system to control the lights,
temperature, music, televisions and
security systems in a home. The system
can be one panel in the home, and it
can also be designed for remote
Internet-based operation.
A few clicks from any computer can
turn down the heat and switch off all
the lights, reducing energy bills and the
carbon footprint of any home. LSquare,
a home automation technology
practice, estimates a three-bedroom
home with a smart home automation
system can save more than 385 KG of
CO2 emissions per year.

MARKET WATCH
“Going Green” has become the watchword in today’s real estate market.

The concept of “Green Building” aims at increasing the efficiency with which buildings
use resources - energy, water, materials - while reducing the impact of the building on
human health and the surrounding environment during its life cycle, through better
design, construction, operation, maintenance and removal and recycle of waste.
Maximizing the use of day lighting, reducing the burden on the electricity usage,
optimizing the cooling and heating loads of a building are few of such measures.

The first question often asked
about sustainable design is:
what does 'green' cost, typically
meaning does it cost more? This
raises the question: more than
what? More than comparable
buildings, more than the
available funds, or more than
the building would have cost
without the sustainable design
features? The answers to these
questions have been thus far
elusive, because of the lack of
hard data.
From this analysis we conclude that many projects achieve sustainable design
This suggests that owners are finding ways to incorporate project goals and values, regardless of budget, by making choices.
However, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. Each building project is unique luptatum
feasibility of LEED. Benchmarking with other comparable projects can be valuable and informative, but not predictive. Any assessment of the cost of
sustainable design for particular building must be made with reference to that building, its specific circumstances and goals.
Source: Research Papers
Getting the most
from research
analysis
Costing Green: A Comprehensive Cost Database and
Budgeting Methodology
Research paper uses extensive
data on building costs to
compare the cost of green
buildings with buildings housing
comparable programs, which do
not have sustainable goals. The
foundations are also laid to
analyze incremental costs over
starting budgets, and to
compare the costs for different
specific measures and
technologies. Additionally, we
present a budgeting
methodology that provides
guidelines for developing
appropriate budgets to meet
the building program goals,
including sustainability goals.
Various reports look only at
construction costs. It is true
that the costs and benefits of
HAPPY DIWALI
SUSTAINABLE
INVESTING:
Experience vs.
Discipline
sustainable design can and
should be analyzed holistically,
including operations and
maintenance implications, user
productivity and health, design
and documentation fees,
among other financial
measurements. However, it is
our experience that it is the
construction cost implications Early Leasing
that drive decisions about Prefer Space
sustainable design. By assisting Visible Performance
teams to understand the actual Optimize Operational Cost
construction costs on real
Employees Health
projects of achieving green, and
Sustainable Development
by providing a methodology
that will allow teams to manage Tax Reliefs
construction costs, we hope to
enable teams to get past the
question of whether to green,
or go straight to working on
how.
quiswithin
nostrud their initial
exerci budget, or with very small supplemental funding.
tation
ullamcorper. Et iusto odio
dignissim qui blan dit praesent
and should bedel
zzril considered
enit augueas such when addressing the cost and
duis dolore te feugait nulla
facilisi. Lor em ipsum dolor sit
amet, plurius wisi consectetuer
te adipiscing elit, sed diam erat
Green Measure does not influence the project cost
nonummy nibh euis mod erat
significantly; rather it helps in reducing operation cost.
tincidunt ut laoreet dolore wisi
magna aliquam erat volutpat.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
wisi cons ectetuer delenit augue
duis dolore te.