Energy Conservation- Residential Building

An important part of environmental impact assessment is to study the energy use of a building. Different patterns of energy consumption, behavior of consumer and use of natural energy resources are deciding factors for sustainable life of the building and resident. At present, residential buildings holds a significant responsibility of electricity consumption in India. It is necessary that the building should be audited for its energy use to minimize the carbon footprint. In this paper, the first focus is to improve the performance of a residential building by optimizing its energy use pattern and another objective is to create a generalized Audit Awareness for Residential Building Sector. The collected data of the audited candidate building is simulated using Integrated Environmental Solution (IES) in Virtual Environment based on the Guidelines of ASHARE Modules. For the residential building, an energy saving of 6.12 % and a cost saving of 24.78% is proposed.