Improving the resilience in urban environment by applied research for the development of a simple equation-based Energy Conservation Building Code for India

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 1343; no. 1; pp. 12185 - 12190
• Main Authors: Jaboyedoff, Pierre, Maithel, Sameer, Bhanware, Prashant, Chetia, Saswati, Kapoor, Vernica Prakash, Rana, Satyendra, Lall, Ashok B., Mohan, Salil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.11.2019
• Subjects: Air conditioners; Apartments; Building codes; Building envelopes; Carbon dioxide emissions; Climate adaptation; Climate change; Conservation; Construction costs; Emissions control; Energy conservation; Energy demand; Energy efficiency; Heat waves; Multistory buildings; Physics; Residential areas; Residential buildings; Resilience; Thermal comfort; Urban environments; India
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012185

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.