Coral Companies support the concept of Green Building developments in Romania throughout all of its activities. Green building practices aim to reduce the environmental impact of buildings. Buildings account for a large amount of land use, energy and water consumption, and air and atmosphere alteration which need to be managed more efficiently.
Green Building, also known as green construction or sustainable building, is a concept and a practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle.
Although new technologies are constantly being developed to complement current practices in creating greener structures, the common objective is that green buildings are designed to reduce the overall impact of the built environment on human health and the natural environment by:
Green building brings together a combination of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings on the environment and human health. It often emphasizes taking advantage of renewable resources, e.g., using sunlight through passive solar, active solar, and photovoltaic techniques and using plants and trees through green roofs, rain gardens, and for reduction of rainwater run-off. Many other techniques, such as using packed gravel or permeable concrete instead of conventional concrete or asphalt to enhance replenishment of ground water, are used as well.
No matter how sustainable a building may have been in its design and construction, it can only remain so if it is operated responsibly and maintained properly. Ensuring the right operations and maintenance personnel will help retain the green criteria designed at the beginning of the project. It is in the Operational and Maintenance Phase that green practices such as recycling, energy efficiency management and air quality enhancement take place.