Lighting accounts for nearly 20% of overall U.S. electricity consumption and 18% of U.S. residential electricity consumption. A transition to alternative energy-efficient technologies could reduce this energy consumption considerably. To quantify the influence of factors that drive consumer...

Despite frequent blackouts and brownouts, extension of the central grid remains the Indian government׳s preferred strategy for the country׳s rural electrification policy. This study reports an assessment that compares grid extension with distributed generation (DG) alternatives, based on the...

This paper examines trade performance of climate friendly goods using some trade indices for India and other Asian countries during 2002 - 2008. Climate friendly goods (CFG) are those goods which have less harmful to environment. Paper identifies India’s performance in CFG trade with other...

This paper describes the air flow analysis and distribution of a radiant cooling system installed in a commercial building. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using ANSYS were carried out to identify the thermal performance of the radiant cooling system. The calibration of simulated...

This design is intended to revive and utilize fundamental principles of tall buildings into a modern design of an 80-story residential tower in Doha. The main goal in this design is to create an innovative and next generation sustainable tower design specifically for the Middle East by taking...

Energy security, environmental concerns, thermal comfort, and economic matters are driving factors for the development of research on reducing energy consumption and the associated greenhouse gas emissions in every sector of the economy. Building energy consumption estimation has become a key...

Thermal bridges are areas of risk of the building envelope, inducing uncontrolled increments of heat transfer, mainly in winter. This notwithstanding, thermal bridges are often neglected in energy audits, since many numerical codes for building energy simulations adopt heat transfer models based...

There are various architectural features of a residential building that can influence its indoor climate and electricity consumption, such as thermal insulation, window size, glazing material, albedo of building façade and orientation. In addition to these architectural features, shading...