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…
Climate Zone Map of India Climate Zones The first step in following the ECBC is determining the appropriate climate zone of the building site which willdictate the specific requirements for design and construction of the buildingsystems and components. India possesses a large variety of climates, which canbe broadly categorized into Read more…
Glazing in building facade plays a very very important role. The requirement of glazing is to enter the light and fresh air and also offer view to connect interior living space to the outdoor. However, glazing and windows are major source of unwanted heat gain in buildings especially during summers Read more…
It is fact that the adding insulation reduces the heat gain. However, there is a increment in the cost to do so. But the cost of amount of energy that can be saved by adding insulation is comparatively higher than the cost of insulation. Therefore, addition of insulation is much Read more…
Low-e stands for low-emissivity and refers to a special coating that reduces the heat transfer of a window assembly. Low-e coated products that reduce solar heat gain can be produced by adding a metallic coating either while the glass is in a molten state or by applying to the glass Read more…
The sun emits visible solar radiation in the form of light and infrared radiation that cannot be seen, but causes heat. Spectrally selective glass transmits a high proportion of the visible solar radiation, but screens out radiant heat from the sun – significantly reducing the need to cool a building’s Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany have signed an agreement on technical cooperation under the ‘Indo-German Energy Programme— Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC)’. The main objective Read more…
The Global RE-INVEST 2017, India-ISA Partnership; Renewable Energy Investors Meet and Expo initially proposed to be held from December 7–9, 2017 has been rescheduled to April 19–21, 2018, due to unavoidable reasons. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is grateful to all the speakers, panelists, delegates, manufacturers, developers, Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) had started ‘Akshay Urja Aur Hum’, a Radio Sponsored Programme (RSP) from September 16, 2016, on every Friday and Tuesday. The concluding episode (104th episode) was aired on All India Radio on September 12, 2017. The programme covered various areas of renewable Read more…