Benefits of a green home

Before we dive into the benefits of a green home let’s first cast a light on what is the meaning of a green home? A’ green ‘ building is a building or a home that reduces or eliminates harmful impacts and further creates positive impacts, on our climate and natural environment.
Green home preserves our valuable natural resources and thus, ultimately improves the quality of life. It promotes efficient, effective, and sustainable use of our precious resources.

 

There are a number of features that make a construction ‘Green’:-

1. Good indoor environmental air quality.

2. Efficient use of water, energy, and other resources.

3. Promotes green surroundings.

4. Use of a substance that is non-toxic and sustainable.

5. Enabling the 3Rs that are reuse, recycle, and reduce.

 

Green homes have seen overwhelming popularity over a period of time thanks to the multiple advantages that they have over non-green homes that vary from environmental to social and economic.

 

Here are 8 reasons why you shouldn’t lag behind in the construction of a green home that is the best home and using eco-friendly resources for the facility of your building:-

 

1. Low maintenance and reduction in overhead expenses:-

Green buildings integrate unique construction features that enable efficient use of resources such as water and energy. For instance, through task lighting strategy and a lot of daylight, green buildings significantly reduce the amount of power used in lighting systems. This allows users to save a huge amount of water and energy bills. Besides that, day-to-day expenses of any organization contribute a heavy amount to the financial expenditure of any building/organization. Green homes significantly reduced these costs. Even though the construction of green homes may be slightly more expensive than their counterparts, the diminishing maintenance costs of green buildings make them much cheaper in the long run.

 

2. Energy Efficiency:-

Elimination of artificial light as much as possible is another key factor or advantage of having a green home over a non-green one. Consequently, it reduces the cost of the bill. Implementing solar panels to make the use of solar energy, and designing windows in such a manner that allows as much as the use of natural sunlight light, actually reduces the dependency for energy on non-renewable resources such as coal.

 

3. Better health:-

Diseases caused by air such as asthma, and respiratory allergies literally make us feel stop doing any sort of work. The green home ensures fresh and rich quality air by diminishing toxic substances from the air. That eventually contributes to our sound and fit state of health.

 

4. Water efficiency:-

Green homes allow the usage of rainwater, reducing water waste through the installation of plumbing fixtures. Hence, it creates a sustainable use of water which again is an extremely pivotal step to restoring the quality of our environment.

 

5. Better Environment:-

As the name suggests green, a Green home promotes greenery, therefore, it helps to lessen the pace of climate change. green homes has exponentially increased. A 2017 industry study, has claimed that green homes have greater resale value than their non-green counterparts. Having or building green is not merely a future investment for a present generation but also a future investment for the next generation. Green home leverage eco-friendly methods of construction that allows builders to use resources efficiently and responsibly.

 

6. Less environmental footprint:-

One of the most consequential features of having a green home is durability. A non-green home conversely has a shorter life span as it involves the replacement of roofing, decking, and carpet occasionally. The old material ends up in landfill, resulting in environmental degradation.

 

7. Increased market value:-

With a lot of buyers who are increasingly becoming environment and greenery conscious, the market value of st consequential features of having a green home is durability. A non-green home conversely has a shorter life span as it involves the replacement of roofing, decking, and carpet occasionally. The old material ends up in landfill, resulting in environmental degradation.

 

Let’s summarise the above-mentioned points with a beautiful quote by Henry David Thoreau, “what is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on?”