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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 1000yesIIT Kharagpur

The Syllabus

  • Review of Climate Responsive Design Principles
  • Heat conduction 
  • Convection and radiation principles
  • Material properties 
  • Daylighting

  • Heat admittance through building envelope
  • Psychometric operation 
  • Solar Radiation and consideration for glazing design

  • Thermal load and ventilation
  • Study on building energy systems that contribute to the energy needs of the built forms
  • Energy calculation and modelling of building based on thermal transfer values 
  • Concept of cooling degree days

  • ECBC norms on energy efficient building in India 
  • Building envelope trade-off method
  • Envelope performance factor
  • Daylight and lighting consideration

  • Eco-Niwas Samhita 2018 guidelines for residential building energy conservation
  • Residential envelope transmittance values in various climatic conditions in India 
  • Comfort system and controls

  • Discussion on life cycle energy analysis of building
  • Embodied energy
  • Operational energy
  • Bureau of Energy Efficiency 
  • Govt. of India (BEE) guidelines and Building Energy Index of different building types

  • Energy Auditing types and level
  • Tools for Auditing 
  • Payback of Retrofits
  • Accepted Home Energy Designations
  • Factors Affecting Thermal Performance of Insulation

  • Passive low energy technologies and its application in building Earth-air tubes
  • Radiant cooling
  • Passive downdraft evaporative cooling (PDEC)
  • Green technologies for alternative sources of building operating energy 
  • PV Cell 
  • Wind energy
  • Bio gas
  • Energy efficient buildings in India: case studies

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