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Energy Efficient Buildings

This document outlines the objectives and units of an energy efficient buildings course. The objectives are to learn about green building concepts and construction techniques to create efficient buildings. The five units cover landscape design, building envelopes, heating/ventilation/air-conditioning, heat transmission, and passive cooling/renewable energy. Students will learn about evaluating and reducing heat loss/gain, natural ventilation, thermal storage, daylighting, estimating building loads, and applying passive and renewable strategies like evaporative cooling, shading, and solar/wind energy. The overall goal is to acquaint students with designing and building modern, resource-efficient structures.

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Energy Efficient Buildings

This document outlines the objectives and units of an energy efficient buildings course. The objectives are to learn about green building concepts and construction techniques to create efficient buildings. The five units cover landscape design, building envelopes, heating/ventilation/air-conditioning, heat transmission, and passive cooling/renewable energy. Students will learn about evaluating and reducing heat loss/gain, natural ventilation, thermal storage, daylighting, estimating building loads, and applying passive and renewable strategies like evaporative cooling, shading, and solar/wind energy. The overall goal is to acquaint students with designing and building modern, resource-efficient structures.

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ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS

OBJECTIVES

 To learn the green buildings concepts applicable to modern buildings.

Acquaint students with the principle theories, materials, construction techniques and to create energy
efficient buildings.

UNIT I

INTRODUCTION

Conventional versus Energy Efficient buildings – Historical perspective - Water – Energy – IAQ
requirement analysis – Future building design aspects – Criticality of resources and needs of modern
living.

UNIT II

LANDSCAPE AND BUILDING ENVELOPES Energy efficient Landscape design - Micro-climates – various
methods – Shading, water bodiesBuilding envelope: Building materials, Envelope heat loss and heat gain
and its evaluation, paints, Insulation, Design methods and tools.

UNIT III

HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING :Natural Ventilation, Passive cooling and heating -
Application of wind, water and earth for cooling, evaporative cooling, radiant cooling – Hybrid Methods
– Energy Conservation measures, Thermal Storage integration in buildings.

UNIT IV

HEAT TRANSMISSION IN BUILDINGS: Surface co-efficient: air cavity, internal and external surfaces,
overall thermal transmittance, wall and windows; Heat transfer due to ventilation/infiltration, internal
heat transfer; Sol-air temperature; Decrement factor; Phase lag. Design of day lighting; Estimation of
building loads: Steady state method, network method, numerical method, correlations; Computer
packages for carrying out thermal design of buildings and predicting performance.

UNIT V

PASSIVE COOLING & RENEWABLE ENERGY IN BUILDINGS : Passive cooling concepts: Evaporative cooling,
radiative cooling; Application of wind, water and earth for cooling; Shading, paints and cavity walls for
cooling; Roof radiation traps; Earth air tunnel. Introduction of renewable sources in buildings, solar
water heating, small wind turbines, stand-alone PV systems, Hybrid system – Economics. TOTAL = 45

REFERENCES

1. Krieder J. and Rabi A., “Heating and Cooling of buildings : Design for Efficiency”, Mc Graw Hill, 1994.

2. Ursala Eicker, “Solar Technologies for buildings”, Wiley publications, 2003.


3. Guide book for National Certification Examination for Energy Managers and Energy Auditors (Could be
downloaded from www.energymanagertraining.com)

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