Rate Your Own Building

Subject

Building Structure

Climatology

Academic Year

2'nd Year

3'rd Year

Complexity Level

Advanced

Intermediate

Content tags

Climate Change

Energy Efficient Design

National Standards/Benchmarks (BEE, ECBC etc.)

Activity Type

Project

Activity duration

1-2 days

Objective

To learn and understand ECBC Rating Guideline
To rate a building based on ECBC criteria

Outcome

Students will learn to integrate energy efficient design features and approach while designing a building.

Requirements

ECBC Guideline

Prerequisites

Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) guidelines
A knowledge of energy efficient building and its related design features
Knowledge and Information of one’s own building based on the checklists. The faculty will be preparing students to gather the required information of their own building.
One can either take their own residential building/house or neighbouring commercial building.

Procedure

Step 1: Introduce the background and the ECBC guidelines document for both Residential and Commercial buildings.

Step 2: Give the students exercise to go through and understand the ECBC document. Allocate a few sections within different groups.

Step 3: Ask each group to share the findings of the sections with the entire class to enable holistic understanding of the guideline document

Step 4: Give instruction to students explaining how to do the compliance analysis of ECBC of a building

Step 5: Create a checklist of information collectively, required to do the ECBC compliance analysis

Step 6: Form groups of two students each.

Step 7: Each group collects data of the building to be studied as per the created checklist.

Step 8: Analyse the building by comparing the building’s information with the ECBC requirements

Step 9: Give a rating of the building

Step 10: Discuss on the design recommendations to make the building can perform better.