Burgeoning energy bills and environmental damage due to buildings creates an urgency to improve buildings in developing countries. Due to rapid construction in such developing economies, there is a need to create easily accessible models to evaluate retrofit and design strategies that can be applicable to new construction and help create new energy efficiency standards. The paper analyses a representative built-form (new construction) in Mumbai (India) for its energy consumption. Sefaira© energy assessment tool is used to create a baseline model as per the current structure and usage profile of an institutional building. Energy efficient strategies are evaluated that showcase potential savings of 30% in energy consumption if minimum requirements of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) of India were implemented.
Evaluation of Energy Efficient Strategies for Buildings in Tropical Climates
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