A Study to Evaluate the Energy Performance for the Brownfield Building at SVNIT, Surat, Gujarat

Across the different parts of the world, the concept of Green Building is catching attention of the architects, urban & town planners, engineers and even the common people. According to the experts, Green buildings are the ones that benefit the environment as well as the human beings by minimum waste generation at all the stages of its life cycle while being cost effective, sustainable and providing comfort to the humans. The presence and behaviour of consumers in the buildings impact largely on energy utilization of various devices such as artificial lights, air conditioners, heaters, etc. Building’s designed energy performance can be affected to one-third by unaware energy usage behaviour. To save the energy, the research team has carried out a pilot study in the Civil Engineering Department (CED), SVNIT, Surat by combining the concepts of Energy Performance and Value Engineering. All the lights in the passage of the department, for the both the floors, were replaced with the sensor lights with specifically designed automated fixtures by referring Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017, Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), MoP, GOI. The results obtained showed unmatchable tangible benefits and proved that by implementing the same at the institute level can prove to save considerable amount of cost, water used to produce electricity and also reduce the carbon foot prints. As per the analysis, the annual kW usage reduced to 54.02 kWh from 262.8 kWh, saving 79.44%. The resulting total annual saving is estimated to be 208.78 kWh. The outcome of this research will be useful for administration of the Institute. Furthermore, the Institute is demonstrating this pilot building for energy performance study to the networking institutes, students and faculty members as well as policy makers, planners, developers and end users.