Energy conservation through green building concept
Student name: Mr Syed Yasir Ahmad
Guide: Prof R L Sawhney
Year of completion: 2014
Host Organisation: TATA Lockheed Martin Aerostructure Limited, Hyderabad
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Dilip Kumar Rathore
Abstract: The tremendous growth in economic activity across the globe is placing pressure on
natural and environmental resources. Industry are a significant contributor to the global
warming due to extensive emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the energy use.
It is observed that buildings in India consume about 20% of the total electricity in the
country and a major portion of this is used in Air Conditioning units. This indicates
that there is a real opportunity to use green buildings techniques in the Industries too in
the country. However, developers face a major challenge in the adopting green
buildings techniques as in some cases this may require huge upfront capital cost.
Developers find it difficult to opt for green buildings due to price constraints difficulty
in sourcing green building materials, technologies and service providers or facilitators
in India.
There are many more examples of energy-efficient technologies being deployed across
the globe and, paradoxically, bringing with them increased energy use and greenhouse
gas emissions. The biggest leaps in energy use come in the summer months. Largely
because of increasing use of air-conditioning, electric utilities worldwide have
struggled to satisfy record demand through the torrid summers that have become ever
more frequent in recent years.
