Housing planning to reduce GHG’s emission

Climate change that has happening and followed by more frequently catastropic impacts. Let say, flood and the atmosphere temperature that is getting hotter. In Jakarta and other cities in Indonesia experience this event quite oven even worse. As practical and quick solution to adapt those situations, people will try to choose living in the upstream area to avoid flood and for the hot temperature, people just turn on the aircondition button to make it cool. Is that the best solution to adapt with climate change? It would not give the long-term solution, however it will become new problems.

Almost no workplace area that no use air condition in Indonesia. And for the resident area the air condition consumption tends to increase. Air condition requires lot of energy consumption which is about 44 percent of the total building energy consumption. We can reduce the CO2 emission by environmental friendly building planning through natural ventilation and lighting. Make the wide openings that facing each other could let the wind flow in the room. Beside that, planting tree in the yard, avoid setting the bulding direction toward the west. Those are several alternatives to creat a convenience house through environmental friendly way. Besides, it also could have economic benefit due to less energy consumption in the house or building.

Kompas, 13 Jan 09