concepts for climate proofing design - sustainable architecture
shabana,
Published in International Journal of Advanced Research in Civil,Structural,Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering and Developing
ISSN: 2320-723X Impact Factor:1.7 Volume:1 Issue:3 Year: 08 April,2014 Pages:108-115
Abstract
Sustainable development can be defined as a technology that mainly aims to balance two aspects i.e., the environment protection and human economic development. Man has the fundamental responsibility to safe guard the environment and should preserve the natural resources for the benefit of present as well as future generations. In the present scenario the traditional sustainable practices and technologies are being replaced by modern unsustainable technologies which caused adverse climatic changes. Global climate change is one of the major problems which are caused due to the implementation of unsustainable and hazardous practices. There has been an increasing trend in the annual mean temperature in India. In order to reduce the effect of climate change, we need to include climate-proofing concepts in national development initiatives. As living standards rise people want to install heating and/or cooling equipment to improve thermal comfort. For buildings not adapted to the climate, the amount of energy to run the equipment, and its cost, will be excessively high, and it will have a negative impact on the environment. A newly awakened interest for passive climatization should have a great deal to learn from the past, but purely traditional solutions assuming continuity of life styles and kinds of work seem rather unlikely. Combining traditional knowledge and advanced technology is therefore necessary. The objective of this paper is to discuss about the climatic design of buildings today, using passive techniques.
Kewords
Evaropative cooling, Passive cooling, climatization, sustainability, indoor climate, energy conservation.
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