Open AccessImproving the resilience in urban environment by applied research for the development of a simple equation-based Energy Conservation Building Code for India
Author(s) -
Pierre Jaboyedoff,
Sameer Maithel,
Prashant Bhanware,
Saswati Chetia,
Vernica Prakash Kapoor,
S.P. Rana,
Ashok B. Lall,
Salil Mohan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012185
Subject(s) - energy conservation , resilience (materials science) , architectural engineering , building envelope , civil engineering , apartment , building code , government (linguistics) , psychological resilience , efficient energy use , engineering , environmental economics , environmental science , geography , thermal , economics , meteorology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , electrical engineering , thermodynamics , psychology , psychotherapist
This contribution presents the approach and methodology followed by the Building Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP) [1] to contribute to the improvement of energy efficiency and climate change resilience for multi-story residential buildings in the rapidly growing urban construction in India. As a consequence, the urban resilience will be improved at two levels: 1) the improved thermal comfort in non-air-conditioned apartments will reduce the health-related heat wave impact, 2) the cooling energy demand in air-conditioned apartment will be reduced by 20-40%. The impact of the Energy Conservation Building Code for Residential (ECO Niwas Samhita) was launched in December 2018 by the Indian Government. It has been estimated to reach a cumulative 100 Million tons of CO2 emission reduction by 2030. The Code was developed with the main objective to reduce heat gains between 20 to 40% through the building envelope by passive measures at no or marginal additional costs of construction.