Energy Efficient Design & Green rating for IIT Kanpur Environmental Sciences building through TERI GRIHA

Earth System & Environment Science Engineering Building, is a research facility located in the Indian Institute of Technology Campus, Kanpur. The facility, as the name suggests would house Laboratories and other facilities for various disciplines of the environment sciences, like Atmospheric, Oceanographic, Earth Sciences etc. The facility houses wet labs which are non- air conditioned spaces on Ground floor and dry labs that are air-conditioned spaces on the first floor. Building design and envelope has been optimised through selection of appropriate wall and roof construction and through adoption of solar passive measures after studying the sun path analysis to provide shading devices for windows and roof which would reduce energy demand to condition the spaces . All the commitments as described in TERI GRIHA to optimise the system design and to achieve thermal comfort in non air conditioned spaces would be followed to reduce the annual energy consumption less than the benchmark established for composite climate by TERI. Water conservation measures would be adopted in the building through selection of efficient fixtures and rain water harvesting. Utilisation of renewable form of energy through building integrated Photovoltaic panels would be incorporated, energy generated from which shall be used in the building.