Benefits of Green Building
Why is Omnicrete The Greenest Construction System?
Every product used in the Omnicrete process is inorganic and comes from sustainable sources such as sand, concrete and stone. Fascia and soffits on the outside of the home are made from Hardi Board which is a concrete composite material. Right down to the interior finishes; no drywall is used on the interior wall like all other building systems do today.
We live by our motto that Omnicrete's mission is to leave as little a carbon footprint as possible not only in the construction of our buildings but the maintenance and utilities of those buildings throughout their useful lives and during their destruction and useful life of where the materials are used after they no longer are part of the building that Omnicrete built hundreds of years later. We are talking less carbon foot print from gathering the raw materials to the transportation to the job site, the assembling of those raw materials into a building, then later the destruction of the building, the separation of materials, the transportation of those materials to their new place of use, etc.
To get specific as to why Omnicrete is "Green" please read the following as well as the other pages of insightful information throughout this web site.
After doing diligence anyone will come up with the conclusion that nothing could be environmentally greener than Omnicrete; period!
What is Green Building?
A green building, also known as a sustainable building, is a structure that is designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in an ecological and resource-efficient manner. Green buildings are designed to meet certain objectives such as protecting occupant health; improving employee productivity; using energy, water, and other resources more efficiently; and reducing the overall impact to the environment.
Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal — the complete building life cycle. A similar concept is natural building, which is usually on a smaller scale and tends to focus on the use of natural materials that are available locally. Other commonly used terms include sustainable design and green architecture. The related concepts of sustainable development and sustainability are integral to green building. Effective green building can lead to 1) reduced operating costs by increasing productivity and using less energy and water, 2) improved public and occupant health due to improved indoor air quality, and 3) reduced environmental impacts by, for example, lessening storm water runoff and the heat island effect. Practitioners of green building often seek to achieve not only ecological but aesthetic harmony between a structure and its surrounding natural and built environment, although the appearance and style of sustainable buildings is not necessarily distinguishable from their less sustainable counterparts.
What are the Economic Benefits of Building Green?
A green building may cost more up front, but saves through lower operating costs over the life of the building especially when building with Omnicrete and enjoying a 75% savings of your heating and cooling costs. The green building approach applies a project life cycle cost analysis for determining the appropriate up-front expenditure. This analytical method calculates costs over the useful life of the asset. These and other cost savings can only be fully realized when they are incorporated at the project's conceptual design phase with the assistance of an integrated team of professionals. The integrated systems approach ensures that the building is designed as one system rather than a collection of stand-alone systems. Some benefits, such as improving occupant health, comfort, productivity, reducing pollution and landfill waste are not easily quantified. Consequently, they are not adequately considered in cost analysis. For this reason, consider setting aside a small portion of the building budget to cover differential costs associated with less tangible green building benefits or to cover the cost of researching and analyzing green building options. Even with a tight budget, many green building measures can be incorporated with minimal or zero increased up-front costs and they can yield enormous savings especially when building with Omnicrete.
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability means many things to many people but here at Omnicrete we believe sustainability means a building created with durable and long lasting products, and that provides a more healthy indoor environment for its inhabitants. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
