• About
    • Contact Us
    • Career
  • Services
    • Architectural Professional Services
    • Green Architect and Net Zero Energy Building Architects
  • Disinfectant Chamber
  • Videos
    • Net Zero Energy Buildings
    • Bhutan’s Carbon Negative Strategy
    • Zero Energy Homes
    • Europe’s First Net Zero Carbon city
    • World’s first Zero Carbon City
    • Biodiversity cleans up Cities
    • Green Living Roof Saves Earth
  • Products
    • Air Conditioning Hydrocarbon
    • Building Automation System as a way towards Net Zero Energy Building
    • Energy Audit
    • PV Panels, Photo-voltaic panels Panel
    • Super Insulation
  • Blog
  • PROJECTS
    • Floor Plans

How Green Architects can design for Waste Reduction, Recycling and Reusing

perumal
18 Sep 2015
Article
Akitek.archetect, archite, architecht, architecs, Architect, Construction waste, design for Waste, Domestic Waste water, Energy, Green architect, Green architect and Net Zero Energy Architect, Green Architects, Green Architects can design for Waste, Kuala Lumpur, London, Net Zero, Net Zero Energy, Net Zero Energy Architect, New Delhi, New York City, Waste, Wet Waste

Green and Sustainability solutions for our Cities

All over the world the we generate much domestic waste from New York City to New Delhi, a call for reduction of waste should be in calculated by Architects. Buildings are the sources of waste and it should be reduced, reuse and recycled otherwise we will find ourselves living among the waste.

Waste designs failures

Failure of Disposal Waste designs by Green Architect

We can learn from nature how waste is processed. The spider eats up the waste webs , plants consume the Co2 we dump, and the bacteria consume our waste, the earth does not have a dump center. But our domestic waste is left to decompose and we are running our of land fills as the waste takes about 30 years to decompose and diapers takes 500 years to do like wise, to a stable conditions.

We generate much waste as the figures listed below reveal; Architects can do much to solve the problems.

  • New York City generates as much as 36,200 tones of garbage every day.
  • London city’s waste can generates 9,100 tones per day, equivalent power to power 2m homes
  • The amount of domestic waste( Municipal Solid Waste) generated is 2,400 tones per day in Kuala Lumpur
  • New Delhi generates about 7,000 tones of waste per day

In the absence of a comprehensive Integrated Strategic MSW Plan all over the world, Architect can forge a plan to reduce the waste at the source-the building, where 95% be recovered and recycling the aluminum and steel and the wet waste to be reprocessed composted for reuse. Or biomass waste power be generated and re-supplied into the grid.

Consideration by Green Architects  in Domestic waste( solid) disposal

As Green Architects our responsibility lies in designing for Waste Collections Centers (waste dumps) where rubbish is sorted out not dumped. Sorting should be done at every floor of the office tower so that it is not dumped at the waste dumps but easily sorted out early at the source.Sorting should be wet waste, paper, cans and bottles waste.Every waste dump at every residence, industrial buildings, resorts, hotels, commercial centers are
to be designed like wise for waste sorting.

Consideration by Green Architects  in Domestic Waste water disposal

As Green Architects we ensure the drains are built properly ,the collapsed drains can be a source of to breed mosquitoes. Bios vales may be considered to replace the external drains as the waste water can be recycled as portable water even for human consumption.

 

Consideration by Green Architects  in Wet Waste disposal

As Green Architects we should ensure the food waste ( wet waste)are not dumped into the drains which help to breed rats rampantly, liters in drains can encourage the rat population to breed.

Wet Waste mixed with the landscape waste, should be sent to the composting yard at every building which should be reused as compost manure which is a better manure for the landscaped areas as it stabilizes the acidity of the ground helping to maintain Eco balance in the ground, See the Edmonton waste center in Canada, an example where waste is recycled as manure. We can start small composting places at our every building sites . If it was a campus style development or a housing scheme where wet waste generated could be massive amount, a Net Zero Energy Architect would design for generating  biomass renewable energy from the wet wastes.

Consideration by Green Architects  in Construction waste disposal

Construction waste should be minimize by using construction systems that reduce wastes such as IBS system or waste is recycled within the site, ensure the contractor reduces waste in the first place. As architect it is our responsibility to design buildings as a waste sorting, reducing and recycling at the source than to shove the problem to city municipalities to solve green and sustainable issues before the waste sites swallows our living spaces.

Prepared by Net Zero Energy Architect Perumal Nagapushnam

« 11 Whys for Net Zero Energy Building in our cities
The 50 men who can save the world by Green ecological strategies »

Related Posts

  • Disinfectant Chamber

    Mobile Covid 19 Disinfectant Chamber

    ...
  • How to get back to work and return to normality in-spite of Corona virus Pandemic
    [caption id="attachment_77566" align="alignnone"...
  • How to treat for termite in house plans

    How to treat for termite in house plans

    ...
  • What is Victorian Houses?

    What is...

  • What is Gothic Architecture?
    The Gothic period lasted from the 12th...
  • Pit Falls in the floor plan for new house for Log House timber treatment

    The Pit Falls in 

  • The Victorian Architecture
    The Victorian Architecture is refereed to the...
  • What is Architecture
    What is
    How to Choose a Disinfectant Chamber? The 5E to selection

    How to Choose a...

  • How to design a fireplace in my house floor plan layout.

    How to design a fireplace in my house floor...

  • What is a Cottage house,house floor plan!

    What is a...

  • Types of Retaining Walls in Architectural designs
    [caption id="attachment_76362" align="aligncenter"...
  • The 50 men who can save the world by Green ecological strategies

    The 50 men who can save the world by

  • 11 whys for Green Ecological Biodiversity and Greening our Buildings and Cities
    Here are reasons persuading for the case of...
  • What is Georgian Architecture?
      It was period during the...
  • Create your new Dream Home not Nightmares
    [caption id="attachment_75785" align="aligncenter"...
  • Net Zero Carbon

    How to Build Log Houses

    How to Build Log Houses

    In building a...

  • What is Indian house design?
    [caption id="attachment_75657" align="aligncenter"...
  • How to design Net Zero Energy for a high rise office 65 levels Tower
Back
Latest Articles
  • Why the corona virus outbreak will come again in Malaysia? What has gone wrong awry?
  • How to Choose a Disinfectant Chamber? The 5E to selection
  • Whistle blowing the Face Mask :leaked and exposed
  • How to get back to work and return to normality in-spite of Corona virus Pandemic
  • Ionized Water Disinfectant
  • Disinfectant Chamber
  • How to Build Log Houses
  • Zero Energy Homes
  • So you want to be an Architect
  • Green Architetcure
  • Managing the Transition to Low Carbon Economy
  • Bhutan’s Carbon Negative Strategy
  • Homes affects your Health
  • Benefits of Biodiversity in Green House Plans
  • Carbon Trading
  • Net Zero Energy Buildings in Green and Sustainable House Floor Plans
  • Net Zero Carbon
  • Terminologies for Net Zero Carbon Emission in Green and Sustainable House Floor Plans
  • 7 Tools for Net Zero Energy for Green and Sustainable House Floor Plan
  • Controlling the Zika Pest by Eco Biodiversity in Green and Sustainable house floor plans
+603 8073 2619
© 2020. All Rights Reserved.