Catalysing Low-Carbon Built Environment
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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, spatial 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 demand.
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 and Low-Energy Solutions
Passive cooling solutions such as external shading, building insulation, natural ventilation, choice of materials and low energy cooling/ventilation systems, 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 solutions to the fullest before incorporating active cooling technologies in the building design.
Building Operation & Monitoring
While a well-defined building model can predict the building performance and help in evaluating the potential solutions; it is important to understand and evaluate the real-life performance. We aim to utilise the best-in-class software/tools at design stage, use high-precision instruments to evaluate the building performance and continue for further performance improvements using the ‘calibrated simulation model’ and potential retrofit solutions.
Services
Building Performance Monitoring
We specialize in developing customized monitoring methodologies and implementing it to understand the impact of a building’s design, its materials and technologies used. We conduct on-site thermal comfort and daylight measurement as well as MRV of energy efficiency measures following the IPMVP.
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.
