1 What is energy efficiency?

How we achieve Energy efficiency in any

buildings ?
. Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the
amount of energy required to provide products and services. For example, insulating a home
allows a building to use less heating and cooling energy to achieve and maintain a comfortable
temperature. Installing fluorescent lights or natural skylights reduces the amount of energy
required to attain the same level of illumination compared with using traditional incandescent
light bulbs. Compact fluorescent lights use one-third the energy of incandescent lights and may
last 6 to 10 times longer. Improvements in energy efficiency are generally achieved by adopting
a more efficient technology or production processes or by application of commonly accepted
methods to reduce energy losses.
There are many motivations to improve energy efficiency. Reducing energy use reduces energy
costs and may result in a financial cost saving to consumers if the energy savings offset any
additional costs of implementing an energy efficient technology. Reducing energy use is also
seen as a solution to the problem of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. A buildings location
and surroundings play a key role in regulating its temperature and illumination. For example,
trees, landscaping, and hills can provide shade and block wind. In cooler climates, designing
northern hemisphere buildings with south facing windows and southern hemisphere buildings
with north facing windows increases the amount of sun (ultimately heat energy) entering the
building, minimizing energy use, by maximizing passive solar heating. Tight building design,
including energy-efficient windows, well-sealed doors, and additional thermal insulation of
walls, basement slabs, and foundations can reduce heat loss by 25 to 50 percent.
2 What is green building concept? What are the advantages &
features of green building explain in details?













What are techniques uses for energy saving in building?

Incorporate solar passive techniques in a building design to minimise load on
conventional systems (heating, cooling, ventilation and lighting)
Passive
systems provide thermal and visual comfort by using natural energy
sources and sinks e.g. solar radiation, outside air, sky, wet surfaces, vegeta-
tion, internal gains etc. Energy flows in these systems are by natural means
such as by radiation, conduction, convection with minimal or no use of
mechanical means. The solar passive systems thus, vary from one climate
to the other e.g. in a cold climate an architects aim would be design a
building in such a way that solar gains are maximised, but in a hot climate
his primary aim would be to reduce solar gains, maximise natural ventila-
tion and so on.
Design energy-efficient lighting and HVAC systems (heating, ventilation and
air-conditioning)Once the passive solar architectural concepts are ap-
plied to a design, the load on conventional systems (HVAC and lighting)
is reduced. Further, energy conservation is possible by judicious design of
the artificial lighting and HVAC system using energy efficient equipments,
controls and operation strategies.
Use renewable energy systems (solar photovoltaic systems/ solar water heating
systems) to meet a part of building load
The pressure on the earths non-renewable resources can be alleviated by judicious
use of earths renewableresources i.e. solar energy. Use solar energy for meeting
electrical needs for a building can further reduce consumption of conventional
forms of energy.
Use low energy materials and methods of construction and reduce transportation
Energy An architect also should aim at efficient structural design, reduc-
tion of use of high energy building material (glass, steel etc.) and transpor-
tation energy and use of low energy buildings material