Design Considerations for Energy Efficient Buildings
The design, construction, and maintenance of buildings has a tremendous impact on our environment and our natural resources. These buildings together use one-third of all the energy consumed in India and two-thirds of all electricity. By the year 2010, another 38 million buildings are expected to be constructed. The challenge will be to build them smart, so they use a minimum of non-renewable energy, produce a minimum of pollution, and cost a minimum of energy while increasing the comfort, health, and safety of the people who live and work in them. Further, buildings are a major source of the pollution that causes urban air quality problems, and the pollutants that cause climate change. They account for 49 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions, 25 percent of nitrous oxide emissions, and 10 percent of particulate emissions, all of which damage urban air quality. Buildings produce 35 percent of our carbon dioxide emissions, the chief pollutant blamed for climate change. Traditional building practices often overlook the interrelationships between a building, its components, its surroundings, and its occupants. Typical buildings consume more of our resources than necessary, negatively impact the environment, and generate a large amount of waste. Often, these buildings are costly to operate in terms of energy and water consumption. And they can result in poor indoor air quality, which can lead to health problems.
Seemi Ahmed Siraj Ahmed
Lecturer Department of Architecture and Planning MANIT, Bhopal, INDIA Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering MANIT, Bhopal, INDIA
国际会议
2007上海国际风能大会(Wind Power Shanghai 2007)
上海
英文
630-640
2007-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）