11th September, 2019,10:00 – 11:30
Venue – Crystal Ballroom

The construction and operation of buildings require huge amounts of resources and contribute to climate change and resource depletion. Growing demand for urban built spaces has resulted in unprecedented exponential rise in production and consumption of building materials in construction, which require significant energy and contributes to pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Efforts aimed at reducing energy consumption and pollution involved with the production of materials fundamentally requires their quantification. Embodied energy (EE) of building materials comprises the total energy expenditure involved in the material production including all upstream processes such as raw material extraction and transportation.

Life cycle energy analysis clearly identifies optimum strategies for reducing both energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of various management tools for evaluating environmental concerns.

This session brings together industry experts to exchange knowledge and showcase approaches for Embodied Energy (EE) and life cycle analysis that will ultimately help practitioners how embodied energy and GHG emissions should be defined, calculated and assessed. 

MODERATOR:

Prof P. S. Chani, Head of Department, Department of Architecture and Planning, IIT Roorkee

SPEAKERS:

Dr. Ashok Kumar, Chief Scientist –
CBRI, Roorkee

Dr. B. V. Venkatarama Reddy, Professor, Dept of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Mr. Cesare Saccani, Managing Director, ICMQ Certification India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

Dr. Sameer Maithel, Head, Indo-Swiss BEEP/Greentech Knowledge Solutions Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi