Introduction
Sustainable construction is defined as a process involving a number of techniques for embracing the preservation of a healthy environment along with the matters related with the development for instance proper utilization of resources available, constant economic and social growth and end of poverty. In the past few decades, it is observed that increasing global environment sensitivity to human activities. For this reason, sustainable construction techniques must be durable, strong, environment-friendly, energy efficient and yet effective in terms of cost and performance because there is the use of modern technologies.
The main objective of the managers of science facility as per their capabilities is to construct and run their science facilities in an appropriate way that is achievable and which can decrease the impact of science facility on the atmosphere due to a research.
Engineers, designers, scientists, science facility planners, and architects examine and analyze every feature required to achieve an objective during the design and planning phase of constructing a new or refurbishing a new science facility for research purposes.
Features involved in the design phase such as fluctuations in weather seasonally, solar orientation, access to transportation facilities, drainage¸ siting, landscaping, urban setup, working of researchers in a given area are the ones on which work is carried by the developers of the science facility.
Moreover, in the construction phase, they can concentrate on using or recycling the raw materials, reducing the pollution caused during construction, ensuring the safety of living creatures in the surroundings, being sensitive to Brownfield areas and minimizing the waste products produced during construction.
Sustainable Construction
In the implementation phase, they focus on the methods to reduce the heating and cooling needs, improve the lighting conditions of the researchers and minimize the number of toxic materials such as harmful chemicals in addition to this also look after the security measures of the researchers.
The difficulty of the performance needs of the science facility provides several day-to-day goals in sustainable design compared to traditional industrial infrastructure.
Moreover, these operational needs and latest science facility are currently directed in order to include sustainable design techniques and most of them also need to have certification of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). It is very significant and beneficial for the researchers to have a sustainable or green lab.
As per the new survey conducted by the editors of R&D Magazine and Laboratory Design Newsletter, it was found that around 90% of people who took the survey think that working in a green lab is quite significant and people who were against the idea of green lab considered it as a costly venture and thought it to be as a space-consuming idea as their science facilities were small to have sustainable systems inside them.
