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Concept of Intelligent Buildings

IT for Energy Efficient Building Design

Course Outline:

This course introduces various aspects of intelligent building design. The emphasis is on integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with building services systems. With its multidisciplinary approach, the course encourages the use of leading-edge design and technology to support the development of intelligent facilities into the next century whilst addressing business and environmental considerations. This course gives a broad overview of what has been existing in a modern intelligent building and what is being developed by researchers in the areas of architectural science and engineering, electrical and mechanical services in buildings, and intelligent buildings. The 4 day intensive programme explores the complex balance of intelligent building elements, and includes the introduction to the latest IT tools used in designing and implementing intelligent controls, needs of building occupiers, the internal environment, energy usage, and cost effectiveness.

Topics Covered:

•Introduction to Intelligent Buildings

•Definitions of intelligent buildings

•Building automation and controls

•Various AI techniques such as Expert systems, Genetic Algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and their applications in Intelligent Buildings especially for HVAC, Electrical, Fire, vertical Transportation, security and safety systems and Energy Management and Design

•Use of IT tools for Illumination design and HVAC load calculations

•Best-Practices Guide for Evaluating Intelligent Building Technologies

•Life Cycle Cost Optimization

•Visit to the building automation lab in IIIT for various demos

Tools used: Ecotect, Radiance, EnergyPlus, GenOpt, LCCOB, Fire Dynamics Simulation.

Prerequisites:

Good understanding of various services in buildings especially illumination and HVAC. Familiarity with CAD and Office applications. Familiarity with AI techniques, basic electronics is not essential but will be helpful.

Course Outline:

One of the biggest challenges in front of architects is to control the energy consumption in buildings. IT assisted approach for designing energy efficient buildings  facilitates a much more accurate estimation of energy consumption in any building. Besides, use of IT tools also provides facility for evaluation of practically unlimited number of options and picking out the best one. Further, IT can also be used to control the operation of energy intensive devices and services for optimum operating conditions. This course covers various aspects of energy efficient building design using an infusion of IT into conventional practices. With its multidisciplinary approach, the course encourages the use of leading-edge design and technology to support the development of energy efficient buildings keeping in mind the key issues for decision making. The 4 day intensive programme covers  deliberations related to energy efficiency in buildings including, simulation tools to assist estimation of energy efficiency, sizing and design of passive architectural concepts and cost effectiveness.

The course covers the following topics:

• Buildings parameters affecting energy efficiency

• Role and selection of energy efficient equipment

• Thermal simulation of buildings for load calculation and design of building envelope

• Simulation of daylighting and artificial lighting

• Energy and environmental analysis of buildings leading to evaluation standards such as LEED 

• Life Cycle Cost Optimization

• Tools: Ecotect, Radiance, EnergyPlus, GenOpt, LCCOB.

Prerequisites:

Good understanding of various services in buildings especially illumination and HVAC. Familiarity with CAD and Office applications.

About IIIT

Faculty

The International Institute of Information Technology (formerly Indian Institute of Information Technology ), Hyderabad is an autonomous, self-supporting institution started in 1998 with seed support from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. A major goal of IIIT is to impart a uniquely broad and interdisciplinary IT education of the highest academic quality. This is achieved through an integrated curriculum that consists of a highly diverse set of IT courses, interdisciplinary IT research projects, day-to-day interaction with industry, preparation in entrepreneurship and personality development courses. The Institute offers Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral level programmes in IT, Electronics and Communications, and applications of IT in various domains.

 The Institute is carrying out advanced Research and Development in Information and Software Technologies and their societal, scientific, industrial and financial applications. This is achieved by having research centres such as:

Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC)
Centre for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology
Centre for Data Engineering
Centre for Visual Information Technology
IIIT Robotics Laboratory
Centre for IT in Building Science
Earthquake Engineering Research Centre
Communications Research Centre
Bioinformatics Research Centre
Power Systems Research Centre

About Centre for Building Science (CBS)

The centre aims at developing and spreading the use of IT for the betterment of buildings in terms of products, processes and performances. CBS emphasizes on studying, applying and improving various IT tools for visualization, optimization, thermal, illumination and acoustic modeling, building automation, intelligent buildings and planning and modeling of other building services.

Vishal Garg

Dr. Vishal Garg is a civil engineer from University of Jodhpur and Ph.D. from “Center for Energy Studies” in IIT Delhi. His doctoral work dealt with application of fuzzy logic control in building automation systems (BAS) for energy conservation and enhanced comfort. He also worked as JRF in Germany on development of a Building Geometry Submodel for the  IKARUS (Instrument for Greenhouse Reduction Strategies) Space Heat Model. Subsequently, he joined International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad , a deemed university, as assistant professor. He is involved in research pertaining to intelligent buildings. He has worked on problems in the area of fiber optic based lighting, fuzzy logic based task control of lighting and heating, venetian blind control, and smart occupancy sensors. He has developed a Life Cycle Cost Optimization tool that can optimize the cost of buildings by changing various design parameters. His current research includes development of a protocol and framework for wireless control of devices in buildings and developing a user-friendly CAD interface for EnergyPlus. Along with research, he is involved in teaching Building Automation & Controls, Intelligent Buildings , Energy Simulation using EnergyPlus, Lighting Design & Technology to post graduate students in the area of building science.

Jyotirmay Mathur

Dr.-Ing. Jyotirmay Mathur is a mechanical engineer from University of Jodhpur , post graduate in energy studies from IIT Delhi and doctorate from Germany . He specialises in the areas of energy efficiency and design related issues in solar passive architectural concepts. He has worked on two international projects related to energy and environmental analysis leading to life cycle assessment of any facility. Presently, his research work for development of solar chimney for ventilation in buildings is being funded by the Ministry for non-conventional energy sources, New Delhi . Besides, solar passive architecture, Dr. Mathur is also involved in research related to energy policy planning, thermal simulation of buildings, HVAC system analysis. He has published 10 research papers in various journals of international repute and presented 18 papers in national and international conferences. He is teaching various courses related to renewable energy sources, energy conservation, energy and environment, heat transfer as a faculty in mechanical engineering department at MNIT, Jaipur.

Fee:                                        Regular¹                 Early reg.²

Professionals, Faculty:          Rs.10,000.00           8,000.00

Full time students³:               Rs. 5,000.00            4,000.00

Cancellation policy⁴:

15 days before the start of the course: 10% deduction

7 days before the start of the course:    50% deduction

Fee is payable by demand draft in favour of IIIT, Hyderabad.

Stay Facilities: Limited number of rooms, available on first come first serve basis. Cost (including food) Rs. 200 per day for executive hostel, and Rs. 500 per person for AC guest house.

Professionals in the Building Industry. Fresh graduates and final year students of architecture or engineering with project experience can also apply. 

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Day 3

Day 4

8:30   to  9:30        Introduction

9:30   to 10:00       Tea Break

10:00 to 11:00       Theory Session 1

11:00 to 12:00       Theory Session 2

12:00 to 13:30       Practical Session 1

13:30 to 14:30       Lunch

14:30 to 16:30       Project

16:30 to 17:00       Tea Break

17:00 to 18:00       Theory Session 3

8:30   to  9:30        Theory Session 4

9:30   to 10:00       Tea Break

10:00 to 11:00       Theory Session 5

11:00 to 12:00       Theory Session 6

12:00 to 13:30       Practical Session 2

13:30 to 14:30       Lunch

14:30 to 16:30       Project

16:30 to 17:00       Tea Break

17:00 to 18:00       Theory Session 7

Similar to day 2  

8:30   to  9:30        Theory Session 12

9:30   to 10:00       Tea Break

10:00 to 11:00       Theory Session 13

11:00 to 12:00       Review Session

12:00 to 13:30       Written Exam

13:30 to 14:30       Lunch

14:30 to 16:30       Project Evaluation

16:30 to 17:00       Feedback Session and tea

17:00 to 18:00       Awarding of the certificates