EA4202 Sustainable, Energy Efficient Building Materials and Technologies Syllabus:
EA4202 Sustainable, Energy Efficient Building Materials and Technologies Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
To Understand the concept of Energy efficiency
An insight into various Energy Efficient Materials and Sustainable Construction Technology
UNIT I INTRODUCTION ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy Efficiency – Energy Conservation – Recourse Consumption – Introduction – Distribution of Energy use in India – Factors affecting the Energy use in Buildings – Pre Building Stage, Construction Stage & Post Occupancy stages – Concept of Embodied Energy – Energy needs in Production of Materials – Transportation Energy – Concept of light footprint on Environment
UNIT II RECYCLABLE AND RENEWABLE MATERIALS
Concept of Recyclable materials – Sustainable Building Materials – Life Cycle Design of Materials – Biodegradable & Non-Biodegradable Materials – Green rating and Building Materials – LEED and other Green rating Systems – Concept of Resource rescue, Recycled content, Regional materials, Rapidly renewable materials – Fly ash bricks, Cement – Recycled Steel, Bamboo based products
UNIT III PASSIVE DESIGN IN MATERIALS
Passive Design and Material Choice – Traditional Building Materials – Importance of envelope material in internal temperature control – Specification for walls and roofs in different climate – Material and Humidity Control
UNIT IV SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
Design issues relating to sustainable development including site and ecology, community and culture, health, materials, energy, and water- Domestic and Community buildings using self help techniques of construction; adaptation, repair and management – portable architecture.
UNIT V ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES
Energy Efficient Construction Technology – Filler Slab – Rat trap Bond – Technologies developed by CBRI – Traditional Building Construction Technologies – Introduction to other Technological interventions to save Energy – Intelligent Buildings – Energy Conservation through Technological intervention – Saving Energy used f or lighting by design innovation – Case studies
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
CO1 An understanding on sustainability as applicable to architecture.
CO2 Knowledge about traditional energy-saving construction methods.
CO3 To understand the properties of materials and applications in appropriate usage.
CO4 Ability to critically analyses buildings with respect to sustainability.
REFERENCES:
1. Bansal Naveendra K., Hauser Gerd and Minke Gernot, “Passive Buildings Designs :Handbook of Natural Climatic Control”, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 1997.
2. Givonji B., “Man, Climate and Architecture”, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1986
3. Koenigsberger O.H, T.G. Inger Soll, “Manual of tropical Housing and Building”longmanGroup United Kingdom, 2012.
4. Watson Donald, ‘Climatic Design: Energy Efficient Building Principles & Practices”, Mc GrawHill Book company, New York, 1993.