85. NET ZERO BUILDING

Net Zero Building - is a structure with zero net energy consumption where the total amount of energy used in the premises on an annual basis is more or less equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site.

♤ Indira Paryavaran Bhawan is India’s first on site Net Zero Building built by adoption of solar passive design and energy efficient building material.

♤ The building is designed in such a way that 75% of natural daylight is utilised to reduce energy consumption.

♤ Total energy savings of about 40% has been achieved by adoption of energy efficient 'Chilled Beam' system of Air Conditioning. This is an innovative air conditioning system, where air conditioning is done by convection currents rather than air flow through diffusers and chilled water is circulated right up to the diffuser points unlike the conventional systems.

♤ Some other provisions are-Effective Ventilation,use of Green materials, rain water harvesting ,use of curing compounds during construction,earthquake resistan,Robotic parking system etc.

♤ The building has been designed as the highest green rated building, i.e., GRIHA 5-Star and LEED India Platinum and received an award an award from Adarsh/GRIHA of MNRE for exemplary demonstration of Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies