Catalysing Low-Carbon Built Environment
Practical Solutions
for Real World Problems!
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About Us
Established in 2006, Greentech Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a research based advisory and consulting firm offering low-carbon solutions for the Built Environment.
We aim to demystify the complex problems that the building construction sector and the policy makers face to decarbonize the lifecycle of buildings through well researched yet practical and simple solutions. Read more
Our Focus Areas
Building Design
Each building behaves differently based on the way it is designed. We analyze various aspects of the building design including its orientation, zoning, special planning and the placement and design of its openings to understand its impact on the thermal comfort of occupants, daylight, indoor environment quality and the energy consumption.
Building Materials
The choice of building materials have a significant impact on the embodied carbon of the buildings. The thermal properties of the materials also affect the heat gains/ losses within a building and therefore become an integral component in the estimation of lifecycle carbon footprint of a body as well as the operational energy consumption. Our studies form the basis of making an informed selection of building materials
Passive Cooling Technologies
Passive cooling technologies such as external shading, building insulation, natural ventilation can play a major role in improving the thermal comfort of a building and subsequently minimizing the energy consumption. We aim to harness the potential of such technologies to the fullest before incorporating active cooling technologies in the building design.
Building Operation & Monitoring
Understanding how a building will practically operate is crucial to modelling a well-defined building model in any software. It is likely to seek better simulation results which in –turn result in developing more effective design recommendations. Following the implementation of this design, it is equally important to monitor the actual performance of the building to validate the effectiveness of the design interventions.
Services
Performance Monitoring
Design Assistance
We offer design assistance to developers/ architects in the form of integrated Design Charrettes to minimize the embodied and operational carbon footprint of large buildings and help achieve their energy and carbon targets.
Building LCA & EPD Certification
We conduct building lifecycle carbon analysis (LCA) and embodied carbon calculation and to assist developers find solutions to reduce them. The environmental product declaration (EPD) is a step towards making the carbon footprint of materials available in the public domain
Capacity Building
Our unique tailormade capacity building programs are aimed at disseminating technical knowledge in understandable terms to a wide array of audiences ranging from technical/ on-site professionals, policy makers to media persons and end-users.
Policy Advisory
We assist government and development agencies in developing and implementing policies/ codes/ guidelines both at the federal level and at the state and municipal level.
Facilitating Transitions
We support both development agencies and private organisations to conceptualise, develop and implement long-term programs to bring about change.
Projects
Trainings
Vayu Pravah
The 9-day self pace learning course is aimed at giving hands on training to use the Vayu Pravah Software to optimize building design for thermal comfort and meet Green building rating standards.
Vayu Pravah is an openFOAM Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software which was developed to make CFD simulations freely accessible to building designers in order to harness the potential of natural ventilation in building and neighborhood design.
Advanced Building Energy Simulation through DesignBuilder
The 2 week self pace learning course is aimed at giving hands on training to use the DesignBuilder Software to optimize building design for thermal comfort and meet Green building rating standards.
DesignBuilder is an EnergyPlus based software tool used for energy, carbon, lighting and comfort measurement and control.
