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Green Architecture & Environment in Bangladesh

by Amit Hassan | 29-04-2021 20:31 recommendations 0

Bangladesh is one of the most susceptible countries in the international due to climate trade. As the ninth most populous USA and the 12th maximum densely populated America of America globally, its growing population and restrained land area have positioned high-quality lines at the city environment. The capital of Dhaka itself underwent intense adjustments in recent years to capture up with the extended price of urbanization. This change turned paralleled using a growth within the existing assets, advent, and housing employer. According to United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dhaka is one of the most polluted towns globally.
Suitable measures followed from the country's vast network to avoid further human-made calamities because of weather trade and better emissions. There are six essential sectors maximum in all likelihood to be laid low with climate trade in Bangladesh – water resources and coastal zones, infrastructure and human settlements, agriculture and meals safety, forestry and biodiversity, fisheries, and human fitness. Deforestation has caused numerous human-made screw-ups within the USA's history. Greenhouses guarantee green water and energy usage, and the state is suffering inside the manufacturing of power and stricken by a shortage of water.
The First Government Green Building Initiative was taken with the aid of the Housing and Building Research Institute in 2007. The Eco-Housing Project designed via Ar. Md Nafizur Rahman. With the assist of IFC-worldwide monetary institution, the HBRI Drafted the Guideline for Grenbuilding Code in 2012; inside the identical 12 months, today's bankruptcy on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability modified into blanketed in BNBC. Ar. Md has drafted the Building Energy and Environment Rating System for Bangladesh. Nafizur Rahman in 2018 for the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Authority (SREDA) The Bangladesh Bank, with the support of SREDA, additionally created a thing-based completely rating machine for their Refinancing scheme in 2017. In the personal vicinity, the number one inexperienced building in Bangladesh was modified with the aid of the EPIC institution in May 2011. Since 2008, Sustainable Built Environment Initiative – Bangladesh (later Bangladesh Green Building Council) founder, Sanwar Azam had labored to unify the stakeholders within the route of a greener America, announcing that with the developing population in a diminishing land and rapid urbanization to vital towns, 'Going green' had ended up an advertising ploy for various agencies as there was no quantifiable manner to decide the sustainability of a shape. He provided a centralized board to provide Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications to thrilling responsibilities and corporations. In addition, he proposed a similar voluntary building rating device that could be a good buy less expensive to attain and one this is heaps perfect to the socio-economic situations of the united states and applicable to its building environment and creative manner of life.
Azam moreover forced the want for educational packages in sustainable designs. Various universities in Bangladesh planned to promote Green Building standards in their curriculum, including the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, State University of Bangladesh-SUB, North South University, BRAC University, and Asia Pacific University. Dr. Saleh Uddin becomes the Events and Education Committee of Bangladesh Green Building Council. Citing that in a cramped surrounding, such houses and systems might be some distance greater comfortable and gratifying however most significantly at once cope with a few countrywide problems, like maintaining water and power. The Government of Bangladesh in 2009 stopped giving connections to newly constructed homes that mean that new homes may want to have now not to get admission to electricity or even water due to shortages. Experts agreed that a scoring tool would facilitate government incentives to sustainable groups and gain the six-point goals of the National Water Policy of 1999 by way of the World Bank and the Renewable Energy Policy of 2008 via the Ministry of Power Energy.
In an event with Architecture and creation professionals, he advised a countrywide need for sustainable development in the country's growing building enterprise and took a discussion board to act because of the countrywide GBC of Bangladesh. He careworn discounts in carbon emissions from homes. National and worldwide electricity corporations like Energpac and Siemens attended the occasion to assess the jobs of the corporate stakeholders. At the same time, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fellows commented on the vital worldwide initiative. The first proposed rating tool aimed to meet the seventh aim from the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as for the primary time, the council furnished help for inexperienced building certifications. Initially, with minimal authorities resources, the plan changed into transforming the marketplace with fee-effective steps. In each different interview with The Independent, Sanwar stated, "there is an incredible false impression regarding the price-effectiveness of the inexperienced layout and advent," and that increased productiveness and strength savings of an inexperienced constructing outweighs initial costs.
Regarding the feasibility of massive utilization of LEED certifications, he said that it is high priced, and Bangladesh is developing a green building score tool in the nearby context. National and local experts additionally promoted those activities. Prominent countrywide award-winning architects, including Mustapha Khalid Palash, the 2010 Holcim Green Built Sustainable Design Competition winner changed into the Chairman of the Practicing Professionals Committee, and Rafiq Azam described the BGBC platform as a way for Bangladesh to specific 'Green' in keeping with the national circumstances. The Institute of Architects Bangladesh, which fits with a first-rate authorities enterprise to provide training and government advocacy, commented on the adaptability of sustainable ideas within the countrywide architecture community within the shape of the BGBC score device.
In 2011, the BGBC founder pointed out that such inexperienced building requirements and gear will cause conservation as houses could devour an awful lot less energy and water. And 'the need to lessen carbon emissions within the modern structure production scenario. At the identical meeting, the Additional Chief Architect of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works, Bangladesh, spoke approximately the authorities' function. By 2012, the Ministry of Public Works began operating with the World Bank to look at energy and water overall performance and emissions reductions via Green Building Codes.
 
Green Architecture in Bangladesh

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2 Comments

  • Debbie Mentor says :
    Dear Amit,

    This is your mentor Debbie. :)

    Thanks for writing about current situation in Bangladesh. The article involves lots of insights from important people in the field, but what do you think about it? This is what we are more interested in :) The dates are also pretty far back as well. So how has the Ministry of Public Works operating its work for 9 years so far? Please keep us dated with thee most relevant information! :)

    Good luck with the next report.

    Best,

    Debbie
    Posted 01-05-2021 11:24

  • Yuseon Mentor says :
    Hi Amit,

    This is your mentor Yuseon:D

    This is such a detailed report:) It would be better for the readers if you could give space between paragraphs and point out important contents. I also want to know your thoughts about the history of how Bangladesh got to concentrate on Green Architectures.

    It seems like your country's green architecture concentrates on the use of efficiency in water and energy to operate the building, which is just as the LEED certificate gives guidelines.
    Good to know that Bangladesh is participating in a large scale.

    Keep us informed,
    Yuseon
    Posted 30-04-2021 19:34

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