Our mission with HEMPOSITE® is to disrupt conventional construction by delivering a versatile off-site factory built system that offers phenomenal structural and energy performance, environmental credibility and capacity to be self-powering through integrated renewable energy generation. Although we are yet to fully research the potential environmental impact of Hemposite® structures we have every hope that system will be net ‘negative carbon’.
The benefits of green buildings
The world over, evidence is growing that green buildings bring multiple benefits. They provide some of the most effective means to achieving a range of global goals, such as addressing climate change, creating sustainable and thriving communities, and driving economic growth. Highlighting these benefits, and facilitating a growing evidence base for proving them, is at the heart of what we do as an organisation.
The benefits of green buildings can be grouped into three categories: environmental, economic and social. Here, we provide a range of facts and statistics from various third-party sources that present these benefits.
Environmental
One of the most important types of benefit green buildings offer is to our climate and the natural environment. Green buildings can not only reduce or eliminate negative impacts on the environment, by using less water, energy or natural resources, but they can – in many cases – have a positive impact on the environment (at the building or city scales) by generating their own energy or increasing biodiversity.
Economic
Green buildings offer a number of economic or financial benefits, which are relevant to a range of different people or groups of people. These include cost savings on utility bills for tenants or households (through energy and water efficiency); lower construction costs and higher property value for building developers; increased occupancy rates or operating costs for building owners; and job creation. Since the publication of World GBC’s groundbreaking 2013 report, The Business Case for Green Building, we have sought to strengthen the link between green buildings and the economic benefits they can offer.
Social
Green building benefits go beyond economics and the environment, and have been shown to bring positive social impacts too. Many of these benefits are around the health and wellbeing of people who work in green offices or live in green homes. (Image © Parnall Bio Engineering & World Green Building Council)
