Energy consumption is one of the most important factors that LEED uses in their certification process. And the owner’s capability to track usage and identify potential savings. Generally most conventional buildings have simple meters provided by the utility company for billing purposes but the advanced standards for LEED certification require Read more…
Climate change has become a global issue right now. Concerns raised from these issues has insisted people to adopt the sustainable development. Because water is one of the world’s most necessary natural resources, all green building projects should include water efficiency as a mainstream goal. The demand of fresh water Read more…
After HVAC system, lighting system is the next largest energy consumption system in any commercial building. Usually lighting consumption is expressed in the form of lighting power density. The lighting power density (LPD) can be defined as the lighting load in watts/sq ft (or watts/square meter). Particularly, for a commercial Read more…
Recently Environmental protection organizations expressed highly concern about the abrupt increase in carbon emissions across the world from the buildings. Global concern about the environment has insisted people to adopt Building that are more eco-friendly even more than the Green Buildings. Now what a Net- zero Energy building really is? Read more…
In recent years we have seen that many commercial buildings are coming up as a whole glass buildings. In Indian context buildings with full glass is not desirable as the larger amount of glazing leads to a huge amount of heat gain of overall building. Hence, it becomes important to Read more…
U-value Thermal transmittance, also known as U-value, is the rate of transfer of heat energy through a structure, divided by the difference in temperature across that structure. The units of measurement are W/m²K. The better-insulated a structure or material is, the lower the U-value will be. Thermal transmittance takes heat Read more…
Under the new set of rules, all families below the poverty line and cowsheds have been totally exempted from paying property tax, it was decided in the general House meeting of the Dharamshala Municipal Corporation (DMC) on Thursday. Dharamshala: A new format of property tax is being introduced in the Read more…
KOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), in consultation with enlisted architects, structural engineers and other stakeholders, has adopted several neighbourhood- and environment-friendly construction practices. Some of the measures to be in place include preventing harmful effluents from piling rigs from flowing into the sewerage and drainage lines, not Read more…
The 7th GRIHA Summit was organized from February 16–20, 2016 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The theme of the conference was ‘Cities of the Future’ and it served as a platform for knowledge sharing on sustainability solutions for built environment both at city and building scale. Some of Read more…
Can glazed buildings be energy efficient? What is the optimum percentage of glazed surface that a building should have? In the dialogue of energy efficiency in buildings, glazed buildings are always believed to be energy inefficient and glass is considered as the single largest contributor to increase in energy consumption. Read more…