The Architecture Industry: A Hidden Culprit to Global Warming
The architecture industry is the single largest contributor to the global warming. Architectural firms can benefit the world with green tomorrow reducing carbon footprints and sending less greenhouse gas in atmosphere as 80% of the sustainable design decisions that affect a building’s energy performance are made by architect at the design phase.

Let’s Design a Green Blueprint for Green Tomorrow...
Increasing environmental consciousness among people and the international outcry for a “cleaner, greener and safer Earth” is compelling the architectural industry to develop energy efficient tools for building sustainable green architecture ...

In the recent times, which we would call the ‘modern age’, there has been a cumulative feeling that people are increasingly getting isolated. There has been a marked alienation within the social fabric and people live like ‘islands’. In more ways than one, the factor responsible for this has been accounted to the way we live, or more precisely the structures that we live in.

Green building, green architecture or sustainable architecture is a design and construction practice that is sensitive towards the environment. Green building is now a popular design alternative that is said to promote and protect economic health and well-being of the community and the environment.

“Vernacular architecture,” Paul Oliver defines in his book ‘Dwellings,’ “is the architecture of the people, and by the people, but not for the people.” Vernacular architecture, as the term, refers to the construction methodology that natives employ to build shelters using locally prevalent resources and conditions.

Building and construction have a great effect on the environment. In the United States, buildings alone account for 40-49% energy consumption, 25% of water consumption, 70% of total energy consumption and 38% of total carbon dioxide emissions.