A Case Study of Water Conservation Evaluate for Green Building

Abstract:

With the development of resource economizing social, green building is being paid more attention at present, and also offers wider development space for water conservation technology. Water conservation evaluation is accordingly becoming an important part in green building study. A green residential area in Xi’an, which including a series of water conservation project such as water saving instrument, reclaimed usage of domestic greywater and rainwater, landscape water protection and so on, is selected as a study case. With evaluating its water conservation of incremental cost, rainwater utilization and comprehensive benefit, the paper aims at consulting on the investment decision in green building’s water conservation technology to reduce the environmental impact on the earth due to water consumption and wastewater discharge.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 374-377)
• Pages: 62-65
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.374-377.62
• Online since: October 2011
• Authors: Li Zhang, Wei Zhang
• Keywords: Comprehensive Benefit, Green Building, Residential, Water Conservation

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