A Comparative Study on Sustainable Building Construction With Conventional Residential Building

Abstract

This project is deals with sustainable construction aspects in residential building. For this, there is a huge demand for affordable urban housing developments by using locally available building materials. Sustainable houses can reduce the impact of buildings on the environment. It protects the environment, climate and the natural resources. So specific materials that could be meeting the minimum requirement are considered in the project. In general the use of concrete is not a sustainable one it consumed plenty of energy during the production and manufacturing of cement and its constituent as well as the construction stages. However the relevance of building constructed by using sustainable materials are vital in the point of environmental aspects as well as technical aspects. The main focus of the project is to develop life cycle data and cost analysis to investigate the feasibility of a sustainable residential structure constructed mainly using mud instead of traditional residential structure.

Keywords: Mud building, Sustainable materials, Material testing, Cost effective construction